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The Paddling Season
04.07.2010
Paddling videographer Bryan Smith introduces us to his friend Paul Kuthe, a canoeing/sea kayaking/whitewater paddling everyman with a poignant story and a plan for this season—to paddle the Butze tidal rapids in British Columbia. This is the first of three episodes.
Boat Book Placid Boatworks
04.06.2010
Each Tuesday, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Placid Boatworks. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. PLACID II L: 17′; W: 31″ max beam; approx 35 lbs. Offered only in Cobra XLT, with S-gunwales New for 2010, the P-II is [...]
Boat Book Seda Kayaks
04.06.2010
Each week, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Seda Kayaks. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. Ikkuma 17 $2950 in fiberglass, also available in hybrid/expedition/custom builds L: 17′; W: 22″; 48 lbs. Several custom constructions support everything from day trips [...]
Boat Book Clipper Canoe
04.06.2010
Each Tuesday, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Clipper Canoe. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. LANGLEY Fiberglass $7,495, Kevlar $8,995 (Canadian dollars) L: 29′; W: 51″; composite 390 lbs., Kevlar 325 lbs. This 14 passenger canoe has a shallow [...]
Boat Book INNOVA
04.06.2010
Each Tuesday, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of the iconic canoe company, INNOVA. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. Helios II EX $999 in fully-coated Nitrylon rubber L: 12.6’; W: 30”; 36 lbs. For 6 years running, the Helios has [...]
Boat Book Valley
04.06.2010
Each Tuesday, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Valley. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. Nordkapp Nordkapp—$3599*, L: 18′; W: 21″; 51 lbs. Nordkapp LV—$3599*, L 17’6″; W: 21″; 50 lbs. Nordkapp RM—$1799 in roto-molded polyethylene, L: 18′, W: 21″, [...]
Boat Book Tributary
04.06.2010
Each Tuesday, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of AIRE’s Tributary line. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. Tomcat LV $499 in PVC L: 8’4″; W 28″; 26.5 lbs. It is important for a kayak to fit well so the paddler [...]
Boat Book Wenonah
04.06.2010
Each Tuesday, we’ll highlight a company in Canoe and Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of the iconic canoe company, Wenonah. Stay tuned next week for more sacred crafts. Backwater $1,399, Royalex L: 15’; W: 41”; 79 lbs. ($1,529 in Tuf-weave Flex-core, 76 lbs.) ($2,099 in Kevlar Flex-core, 64 lbs.) [...]
Standup with Dan Gavere
04.05.2010
Standup with Dan Gavere Dan Gavere has been whitewater video star since kayaking videos became chic in the early 1990s. But recently, he has switched his focus from sitting to standing, releasing a new standup paddling instructional video with longtime whitewater videographer Chris Emerick this spring. Check out the trailer below or go to supinstruction.com [...]
Kayak Drama
04.02.2010
You gotta hand it to whitewater kayakers: They’re one creative bunch. Check out this new kayak drama, Raven Fork, the second film from Thomas W. Oliver. The North Carolina filmmaker goes beyond kayak highlight reels or documentaries into actual fictionalized plots. His first film, Green River: On the Downlow, deals with skipping work to go [...]
Saving the Last Frontier
03.31.2010
The votes are in for the Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia’s annual list of endangered waterways, and at the top are the headwaters of the Stikine, Spatsizi and Skeena rivers—world-renown whitewater and canoe-tripping destinations. The alpine plateau in northern B.C. that’s known as the “Sacred Headwaters” could become the site of a massive natural [...]
Who Needs Salt?
03.26.2010
Yes, we know they call them sea kayaks. But using them strictly for ocean paddling is so, well, limiting. Thanks to those things called roof racks, we can use our sea kayaks anywhere there’s water, from Utah’s Labyrinth Canyon to Lake Champlain in Vermont. And sleek sea kayak designs allow for fast, comfortable touring and [...]
Contributor’s Guidelines
03.25.2010
Entering its 37th year in print, Canoe & Kayak is the world’s largest paddlesports publication with a circulation just shy of 50,000. The vast majority of stories are produced by established freelance writers or the C&K editorial staff, though we are open to new story ideas and contributors. Canoe & Kayak is published six times [...]
Don Starkell Injured in Fire
03.25.2010
The legendary canoeist suffered burns and smoke inhalation as he fought the blaze in his home near Winnipeg, Manitoba. Though later hospitalized in critical but stable condition, a neighbor and passerby had to restrain Starkell from going back into the burning house to fight the fire. Starkell, 77, is best known for his 12,000-mile canoe [...]
Spreading the Big Canoe Bug
03.25.2010
In 1811, a British cartographer became the first to pioneer a long-coveted fur trade route from the Canadian Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Northwest. Traveling by birchbark canoe, David Thompson descended the Kootenay River from present-day British Columbia, crossed the northern fringes of Montana and Idaho and then portaged into the Columbia River along the [...]
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