Category Archives: Of Interest
Apr
Paddling.net has created a Kayak and Canoe Launch Sites map app. There’s an amazing number of launch points and it’s growing… so you can find launch sites in your area across the US or anywhere in the world. Help them out and all our ‘pals of the paddle’ and update ones in your area. Visit …
Apr
Native Americans led the way in engineering the canoe as we know it today. They used natural materials to the fullest extent possible, even taking advantage of a property of birch bark in creating their decorative designs. Birch bark, when removed from trees in winter, has an inner bark rind. This inner rind was scraped …
Apr
Designed to be seen, voyageurs often created their designs using paint. More colorful than scraped bark, their designs many times, reflected the mark of the trading company which the voyageurs represented. These designs were as bold as the men who paddled the canoes and sometimes included large areas of color that covered both ends of …
