The Houston Canoe Club
is a Paddlesports Risk Management Club Sign the Waiver HCC
"'Blue' space: Access to water features can boost city dwellers' mental health" " Officials are increasingly recognizing that integrating nature into cities is an effective public health strategy to improve mental health. There are hundreds of studies showing that time in nature can benefit people’s psychological well-being and increase social engagement. Much of this research to date has focused on the role of green space in improving mental health. But what about “blue” space – water settings such as riverside trails, a lake or a waterfront?..." Complete story: The Conversation "Tourists take their lives into their own hands" My wife and I were on a rafting trip on the Green River which ended in mayhem at a place aptly named Disaster Falls. Several tourists capsized on those rapids, and one drowned. My wife and I failed to understand the company's brochure. When we read that the trip was "open to children 7 and up," we concluded that its "skilled, knowledgeable, professional guides" had vetted the rapids for every age, every skill level. We were wrong. The company was promising only to bring us to the rapids. Once there, we could look at the water and, on the basis of what we saw, make an instinctive determination of risk..." Complete story: Chron.com "Kayaker drowns in North Carolina river" " A Tennessee woman died in a kayaking incident on the Laurel River in North Carolina, authorities said. April Morton, 31, died Sunday after getting stuck underneath a tree in the water. Morton was identified as an experienced kayaker..." Complete story: Citizen-Times "New canoe authorization card to control open access policy in Ghana" "Ghana has moved to control the hitherto unregulated increase in the country’s fishing canoe fleet, which has been blamed for the fast-falling small pelagic catch in the country..." Complete story: SeafoodSource "Yurok Tribe says Downed Logs from Redwood Forest to be Carved into Dugout Canoe" (Oregon) "The Yurok Tribe removed three downed old growth redwood logs from the forest.The three logs extracted this year will be used to carve up to 10 traditional Yurok dugout canoes for use in the Redwood Yurok Canoe Tours..." Complete story: Kymkemp.com "Shipwrights to restore oldest existing log canoe" (Maryland) "This winter, shipwrights at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, will take on the restoration of a subject they’re all too familiar with — a Chesapeake Bay sailing log canoe. Part of CBMM’s small craft collection, Glide is a three-log canoe believed to have been built circa 1864 at Town Point in Dorchester County..." Complete story: Stardem.com "Woodworker teaches classes to build traditional wooden canoe" (Mississippi) "Avid paddler John Carter of Jackson never considered building his own canoe. But a pile of scrap wood at his business inspired him to do just that and he's now offering classes to share the experience. He had no use for it, but felt it still had value. The wood spoke to him. "I had just a bunch of long, skinny scraps," Carter said. "I didn't want to throw them away. "I just studied the wood and let it tell me what it wanted to be..." Complete story: Clarion Ledger "Couple caught using canoe to burglarize Lake Texoma boat slips" (Oklahoma) "Investigator Damon Robinson with the Sheriffs Office said they got reports at the beginning of November of two people prowling through boat slips. "The man and woman were using a canoe, a green canoe, under the cover of night to go to other boat slips and steal items," Robinson said..." Complete story: Kxii.com "Man flees cops, paddles kayak 1,000 yards using his hands before arrest" (Oregon) "Police arrested a man Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly ran from officers, stole a kayak and tried to paddle away on the Columbia River using his hands as paddles..." Complete story:Oregon Live "Piles of abandoned kayaks spur pleas from police" (Massachusetts) "The Duxbury Police Department is all but begging residents to come and claim the dozens upon dozens of kayaks and standup paddleboards — or SUPs — left or forgotten along the shorelines at several town landings, thousands of dollars worth of recreational water vessels that they’re trying to figure out what to do with next..." Complete story: Boston Globe
" Officials are increasingly recognizing that integrating nature into cities is an effective public health strategy to improve mental health. There are hundreds of studies showing that time in nature can benefit people’s psychological well-being and increase social engagement. Much of this research to date has focused on the role of green space in improving mental health. But what about “blue” space – water settings such as riverside trails, a lake or a waterfront?..."
My wife and I were on a rafting trip on the Green River which ended in mayhem at a place aptly named Disaster Falls. Several tourists capsized on those rapids, and one drowned. My wife and I failed to understand the company's brochure. When we read that the trip was "open to children 7 and up," we concluded that its "skilled, knowledgeable, professional guides" had vetted the rapids for every age, every skill level. We were wrong. The company was promising only to bring us to the rapids. Once there, we could look at the water and, on the basis of what we saw, make an instinctive determination of risk..."
" A Tennessee woman died in a kayaking incident on the Laurel River in North Carolina, authorities said. April Morton, 31, died Sunday after getting stuck underneath a tree in the water. Morton was identified as an experienced kayaker..."
"Ghana has moved to control the hitherto unregulated increase in the country’s fishing canoe fleet, which has been blamed for the fast-falling small pelagic catch in the country..."
"The Yurok Tribe removed three downed old growth redwood logs from the forest.The three logs extracted this year will be used to carve up to 10 traditional Yurok dugout canoes for use in the Redwood Yurok Canoe Tours..."
"This winter, shipwrights at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, will take on the restoration of a subject they’re all too familiar with — a Chesapeake Bay sailing log canoe. Part of CBMM’s small craft collection, Glide is a three-log canoe believed to have been built circa 1864 at Town Point in Dorchester County..."
"Avid paddler John Carter of Jackson never considered building his own canoe. But a pile of scrap wood at his business inspired him to do just that and he's now offering classes to share the experience. He had no use for it, but felt it still had value. The wood spoke to him. "I had just a bunch of long, skinny scraps," Carter said. "I didn't want to throw them away. "I just studied the wood and let it tell me what it wanted to be..."
"Investigator Damon Robinson with the Sheriffs Office said they got reports at the beginning of November of two people prowling through boat slips. "The man and woman were using a canoe, a green canoe, under the cover of night to go to other boat slips and steal items," Robinson said..."
"Police arrested a man Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly ran from officers, stole a kayak and tried to paddle away on the Columbia River using his hands as paddles..."
"The Duxbury Police Department is all but begging residents to come and claim the dozens upon dozens of kayaks and standup paddleboards — or SUPs — left or forgotten along the shorelines at several town landings, thousands of dollars worth of recreational water vessels that they’re trying to figure out what to do with next..."