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"Japanese kayaker banned eight years for lacing rival's drink" (Japan) "A Japanese kayaker has been banned from competition for eight years for spiking the drink of a rival so that he would fail a doping test. Yasuhiro Suzuki drugged his key rival at last year's national championships in September. Suzuki spiked the drink of rival Seiji Komatsu with an anabolic steroid, causing him to fail a doping test..." Complete story: ESPN "Registration of paddlecraft would support safety, Water Trails (Michigan) "Few paddling fans are likely to applaud a proposed registration program for their watercraft. Still, it's probably a pretty good idea. The Michigan State Waterways Commission, eager to fund an emerging DNR "Water Trails" system and to streamline responses to real and perceived paddlesport emergencies, is floating the notion of requiring registration of kayaks, canoes, stand-up paddleboards and similar boats...." Complete story: Chron.com "This Founder Made Space for an Unusual Obsession - and It Led to a One-of-a-Kind Kayak Company" (California) "Not everyone would combine the Japanese art of paper folding with a love for the outdoors, but Anton Willis did. As a kayaker in San Francisco, he couldn’t fit his boat in his tiny studio apartment. But as an architect, he wondered if there might be a design solution that could get his boat out of storage.Willis began thinking about the possibilities of the folding paper art and whether it could be applied to solve the problem of the collapsible kayak..." Complete story: Entrepreneur.com "Canadian-canoe sale a trip into uncharted waters" (Canada) "Auctioning a rare Peterborough Canadian canoe made about 1920 means a ''step into the unknown'' but auction house manager Ronnie Proctor is optimistic about the outcome. ''It's something just a little bit different,'' Mr Proctor said..." Complete story: Otago Daily Times "Two fathers and their children rescued after canoe capsizes" (Florida) "Two fathers and their three children were hospitalized after being rescued from the chilly Sarasota Bay waters where their capsized canoe left them stranded. Sunday was not a typical boating day, but fortunately for the two fathers and their children, local charter Capt. Taylor Rahn had taken out two clients fishing..." Complete story: Bradenton Herald "Canoe found 13 years after Carl Stein goes missing" (Australia) "A red canoe has been found almost 14 years after it was last seen on the day Carl Stein went missing. The original owner of the canoe Adrian Walsh was ‘surprised and shocked’ to see the canoe in a person’s yard at the weekend. “You never stop looking for it, it’s always in the back of your mind that it will turn up one day,” he said..." Complete story: The Advocate "Book gives rare glimpse of wilderness travel in the early 1900s in the Northwoods" (Wisconsin) "They called themselves “the Gang,” and in the early 1900s the group of men and boys would leave town for wilderness canoe trips and an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. They were led by Howard Greene, a wealthy Milwaukee businessman who was looking for a diversion from work and found it by paddling down wild rivers..." Complete story: Journal Sentinel "Waste slick closes Dickinson Bayou to boaters" (Dickinson, TX) "Officials on Saturday contained a waste mixture floating on Dickinson Bayou, but closed the water to boaters throughout the day. Less than 250 gallons of the substance — a mixture of oily water, sulfonate solution and emulsifiers — spilled from a broken valve at the Calumet Penreco refinery in Dickinson..." Complete story: Daily News "Verlen Kruger's 100,000 Miles" "Verlen Kruger canoed the full length of the Mississippi River several times over his 82 years. For most people, just one trip would provide bragging rights to last a lifetime. Kruger wasn’t most people. It’s not just that boasting wasn’t part of his repertoire, it’s that he logged an insane amount of miles in his canoe. With expeditions crisscrossing the entire Western Hemisphere, Kruger paddled more than 100,000 miles..." Complete story: Canoeroots
"A Japanese kayaker has been banned from competition for eight years for spiking the drink of a rival so that he would fail a doping test. Yasuhiro Suzuki drugged his key rival at last year's national championships in September. Suzuki spiked the drink of rival Seiji Komatsu with an anabolic steroid, causing him to fail a doping test..."
"Few paddling fans are likely to applaud a proposed registration program for their watercraft. Still, it's probably a pretty good idea. The Michigan State Waterways Commission, eager to fund an emerging DNR "Water Trails" system and to streamline responses to real and perceived paddlesport emergencies, is floating the notion of requiring registration of kayaks, canoes, stand-up paddleboards and similar boats...."
"Not everyone would combine the Japanese art of paper folding with a love for the outdoors, but Anton Willis did. As a kayaker in San Francisco, he couldn’t fit his boat in his tiny studio apartment. But as an architect, he wondered if there might be a design solution that could get his boat out of storage.Willis began thinking about the possibilities of the folding paper art and whether it could be applied to solve the problem of the collapsible kayak..."
"Auctioning a rare Peterborough Canadian canoe made about 1920 means a ''step into the unknown'' but auction house manager Ronnie Proctor is optimistic about the outcome. ''It's something just a little bit different,'' Mr Proctor said..."
"Two fathers and their three children were hospitalized after being rescued from the chilly Sarasota Bay waters where their capsized canoe left them stranded. Sunday was not a typical boating day, but fortunately for the two fathers and their children, local charter Capt. Taylor Rahn had taken out two clients fishing..."
"A red canoe has been found almost 14 years after it was last seen on the day Carl Stein went missing. The original owner of the canoe Adrian Walsh was ‘surprised and shocked’ to see the canoe in a person’s yard at the weekend. “You never stop looking for it, it’s always in the back of your mind that it will turn up one day,” he said..."
"They called themselves “the Gang,” and in the early 1900s the group of men and boys would leave town for wilderness canoe trips and an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. They were led by Howard Greene, a wealthy Milwaukee businessman who was looking for a diversion from work and found it by paddling down wild rivers..."
"Officials on Saturday contained a waste mixture floating on Dickinson Bayou, but closed the water to boaters throughout the day. Less than 250 gallons of the substance — a mixture of oily water, sulfonate solution and emulsifiers — spilled from a broken valve at the Calumet Penreco refinery in Dickinson..."
"Verlen Kruger canoed the full length of the Mississippi River several times over his 82 years. For most people, just one trip would provide bragging rights to last a lifetime. Kruger wasn’t most people. It’s not just that boasting wasn’t part of his repertoire, it’s that he logged an insane amount of miles in his canoe. With expeditions crisscrossing the entire Western Hemisphere, Kruger paddled more than 100,000 miles..."