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"How Adventure Gear Strapped to Your Roof Affects Gas Mileage" "Car manufacturers rigorously test new vehicles in wind tunnels to trim away tiny bits of design elements that negatively affect the car’s aerodynamics and, most importantly, its performance. Slight alterations to the exterior of the car can have a significant impact on fuel economy. When Buick launched its new Regal TourX, billed as an adventure vehicle, engineers wanted to shed some light on how attaching various outdoor gear to the roof of your vehicle would impact your gas mileage..." Complete story: Men's Health "Rethinking the Canoe" "A while back, a publisher sent me a manuscript for review that eventually became the book, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle. I didn’t particularly like what author, English professor Misao Dean, had to say about the canoe as a vessel of conquest. In the book, Dean alleges the canoe to be a symbol of theft, genocide and colonialism, appropriated by mostly white, middle and upper class men..." Complete story: Canoeroots "Kayaker attacked by possibly-rabid otter" (FL) "A 77-year-old kayaker was recovering Monday after a wild otter attack on the Braden River left her needing stitches and rabies treatments. Sue Spector said she and her husband were kayaking Sunday morning. "It was very pristine and very nice and I heard someone make a comment that, 'Oh, there's an otter!'" Sue said. "And then all of a sudden he jumped on the kayak and two seconds later he jumped on me..." Complete story: Fox 13 "2 Men Missing & 7 More Stranded After Encounter with Hippo Herd" (South Africa) "Two kayak paddlers are missing and seven others are stranded after encountering a herd of hippos while paddling down the Fish River towards Port Alfred. “Communications have been established with the paddlers and we believe that they are cut off from continuing downstream by a herd of hippos, and two of the paddlers who ventured off to seek help during the night have not returned and have not arrived at their destination and they are missing..." Complete story: Paddling.com "Body recovered after prowler fled in canoe" (MI) "A sheriff says a body has been recovered from a lake where a prowler is presumed to have drowned after a canoe he used to flee from deputies overturned in a frigid lake in southwestern Michigan..." Complete story: Chron.com "Hung jury for man in attempted murder charge" (AZ) "A man was convicted Monday of 12 of 16 felony counts for shooting at four Flagstaff kayakers in February 2017. After almost six hours of deliberating over the course of two days, a jury found Danny Eugene Button, 68, guilty of four counts of aggravated assault, four counts of disorderly conduct with a weapon and four counts of endangerment..." Complete story: Mojave Daily News "World champ kayaker drowns in Cheoah River" (NC) "'Whatever happened was a fluke. For her it was an easy river. The Cheoah for her was like her backyard, She had been paddling it for 10 years. She was paddling with people who she was responsible for and she didn’t take that lightly.' The accident occurred about 3 p.m. on Saturday..." Complete story: Citizen-Times "trooper saves man swept into culvert while kayaking" (IN) "A state trooper is being credited with rescuing a man who was swept into a culvert while kayaking in a flooded field in southern Indiana..." Complete story: Chron.com "Student and cancer survivor wins trip to BWCA" (MN) "Julia Ruelle is ecstatic to be heading this summer to the serene Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) as winner of the first ever essay contest sponsored by the founder of Ely Outfitting Co..." Complete story: (web-link) "My 450-Mile Canoe Trip" (NY) "The water roiled, the texture of mashed potatoes, hostile, unconquerable, bucking my seventeen-foot canoe and shooting up frequent, unpredictable spires of water where crisscrossing waves converged. A few weeks’ worth of sweat lived in the threadbare Hawaiian shirt that hung from my shoulders, and my palms ached red and raw..." Complete story: Popular Mechanics "Why he kayaked across the Atlantic at 78 (for the 3rd time)" "When Aleksander Doba kayaked into the port in Le Conquet, France, on Sept. 3, 2017, he had just completed his third — and by far most dangerous — solo trans-Atlantic kayak trip. He was a few days shy of his 71st birthday. He’d been at sea 110 days, alone..." Complete story: NY Times
"Car manufacturers rigorously test new vehicles in wind tunnels to trim away tiny bits of design elements that negatively affect the car’s aerodynamics and, most importantly, its performance. Slight alterations to the exterior of the car can have a significant impact on fuel economy. When Buick launched its new Regal TourX, billed as an adventure vehicle, engineers wanted to shed some light on how attaching various outdoor gear to the roof of your vehicle would impact your gas mileage..."
"A while back, a publisher sent me a manuscript for review that eventually became the book, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle. I didn’t particularly like what author, English professor Misao Dean, had to say about the canoe as a vessel of conquest. In the book, Dean alleges the canoe to be a symbol of theft, genocide and colonialism, appropriated by mostly white, middle and upper class men..."
"A 77-year-old kayaker was recovering Monday after a wild otter attack on the Braden River left her needing stitches and rabies treatments. Sue Spector said she and her husband were kayaking Sunday morning. "It was very pristine and very nice and I heard someone make a comment that, 'Oh, there's an otter!'" Sue said. "And then all of a sudden he jumped on the kayak and two seconds later he jumped on me..."
"Two kayak paddlers are missing and seven others are stranded after encountering a herd of hippos while paddling down the Fish River towards Port Alfred. “Communications have been established with the paddlers and we believe that they are cut off from continuing downstream by a herd of hippos, and two of the paddlers who ventured off to seek help during the night have not returned and have not arrived at their destination and they are missing..."
"A sheriff says a body has been recovered from a lake where a prowler is presumed to have drowned after a canoe he used to flee from deputies overturned in a frigid lake in southwestern Michigan..."
"A man was convicted Monday of 12 of 16 felony counts for shooting at four Flagstaff kayakers in February 2017. After almost six hours of deliberating over the course of two days, a jury found Danny Eugene Button, 68, guilty of four counts of aggravated assault, four counts of disorderly conduct with a weapon and four counts of endangerment..."
"'Whatever happened was a fluke. For her it was an easy river. The Cheoah for her was like her backyard, She had been paddling it for 10 years. She was paddling with people who she was responsible for and she didn’t take that lightly.' The accident occurred about 3 p.m. on Saturday..."
"A state trooper is being credited with rescuing a man who was swept into a culvert while kayaking in a flooded field in southern Indiana..."
"Julia Ruelle is ecstatic to be heading this summer to the serene Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) as winner of the first ever essay contest sponsored by the founder of Ely Outfitting Co..."
"The water roiled, the texture of mashed potatoes, hostile, unconquerable, bucking my seventeen-foot canoe and shooting up frequent, unpredictable spires of water where crisscrossing waves converged. A few weeks’ worth of sweat lived in the threadbare Hawaiian shirt that hung from my shoulders, and my palms ached red and raw..."
"When Aleksander Doba kayaked into the port in Le Conquet, France, on Sept. 3, 2017, he had just completed his third — and by far most dangerous — solo trans-Atlantic kayak trip. He was a few days shy of his 71st birthday. He’d been at sea 110 days, alone..."