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"The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey" "With Germany in tatters, his small business bankrupt, Oskar Speck got into his kayak in 1932 for what would become an epic, seven-and-a-half-year paddle—30,000 miles, packed with hero’s welcomes and near-death escapes, all the way to Australia..." Complete story: Vanity Fair (Contributed by Paul Spana) "Argument between canoeing partners left woman stranded" (Ontario) "A heated argument between two friends on a canoe trip resulted in one woman becoming stranded on the Spanish River. Two female friends left on a five-day canoe trip. An argument between the women broke out, and one left in the canoe while the other was stranded on the shore..." Complete story: SOOToday "The World’s Largest Canoe Paddle" (Ontario) "hen Mike Rantadreams, he dreams big. During the past year, the two-time cross-Canada canoeist has been building the world’s biggest canoe paddle. He calls it the Big Dipper. “I was aiming for 100 feet, and then I threw on an extra 10 or so,” Ranta says of the 110-foot-long, 15-foot-tall paddle he’s building in the tiny town of Killarney, Ontario..." Complete story: Paddling Magazine "2019 Report on Paddlesports & Safety" (United States) "In 2018, 22.9 million Americans, or 7.6 percent of the U.S. population, took to rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans to participate in at least one paddling activity. This participation rate is a slight decrease from 7.7 percent in 2017 and 7.8 percent in 2016. In terms of specific paddlesports, recreational kayaking continues to grow in popularity and seems to be replacing many Americans’ desires to canoe..." Complete story: Outdoor Industry Assoc. "A man paddled a canoe from Maine to N.H. with bad intentions" "A man is being charged with arson, among other crimes, for allegedly setting the city’s middle school on fire late last month.The alleged arson isn’t the only incident Christoph M. Berger, 24 is facing charges for. Not even 12 hours prior to him allegedly paddling to the school on a canoe to commit that crime..." Complete story: Boston.com "A Canoe Is No Place for a Fawn" (Massachusetts) "The neighbor was mowing her lawn and ran the mower down the path to the pond. She stopped at a canoe on the path by the water and saw an animal lying inside it. “Holy cow, that’s a really big rabbit,” she thought. Then she realized it was actually a baby fawn in the boat. It didn’t try to get up. Was it injured? Will it be okay?..." Complete story: Vineyard Gazette "Men Find Historic Canoe" (Georgia) "Four guys went out on the Oconee River, on a five-day trip. On the fourth nigh, they pulled onto a sandbar to camp for the evening, and what they found will one day sit in a museum..." Complete story: 13 WMAZ "Dragging Canoe was Cherokee’s greatest military leader" (Tennessee) "Born about 1740 in Tennessee, Dragging Canoe was perhaps the greatest diplomat ever produced by the Cherokees. Denied permission by his father to participate in a war party against the Shawnees, the youth hid in an overturned canoe. His father gave him permission to go on the war party if he could carry the canoe over the portage. Unable to lift the heavy vessel, he began dragging it along the portage. The cheering warriors began to chant “tsi-yu gansi-ni!” which means, “He is dragging the canoe!” From that time, he was known as Dragging Canoe..." Complete story: Smoky Mountain News "Family thankful after harrowing river adventure" (Minnesota) "What began as a fun paddle down a river for a Brainerd family turned into quite a bit more of an adventure than they planned. Things took a turn when the icy waters began moving more swiftly, giving way to river rapids. The change was unexpected for the group, Abigail said, and no one had experience navigating rapids..." Complete story: Duluth News Tribune "Ghana’s canoe fishers urge president to crack down on illegal fishing..." "Ghana's national canoe fishermen's council written to the Ghanaian president, calling for an intervention to end the illegal fishing practice known as saiko fishing, which it claims is driving stocks to collapse and threatening Ghana's food security and livelihoods. The practice provides jobs to 1,500 people, in contrast to the 140,000 direct jobs created by the canoe fishing industry..." Complete story: UnderCurrentNews
"With Germany in tatters, his small business bankrupt, Oskar Speck got into his kayak in 1932 for what would become an epic, seven-and-a-half-year paddle—30,000 miles, packed with hero’s welcomes and near-death escapes, all the way to Australia..."
"A heated argument between two friends on a canoe trip resulted in one woman becoming stranded on the Spanish River. Two female friends left on a five-day canoe trip. An argument between the women broke out, and one left in the canoe while the other was stranded on the shore..."
"hen Mike Rantadreams, he dreams big. During the past year, the two-time cross-Canada canoeist has been building the world’s biggest canoe paddle. He calls it the Big Dipper. “I was aiming for 100 feet, and then I threw on an extra 10 or so,” Ranta says of the 110-foot-long, 15-foot-tall paddle he’s building in the tiny town of Killarney, Ontario..."
"In 2018, 22.9 million Americans, or 7.6 percent of the U.S. population, took to rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans to participate in at least one paddling activity. This participation rate is a slight decrease from 7.7 percent in 2017 and 7.8 percent in 2016. In terms of specific paddlesports, recreational kayaking continues to grow in popularity and seems to be replacing many Americans’ desires to canoe..."
"A man is being charged with arson, among other crimes, for allegedly setting the city’s middle school on fire late last month.The alleged arson isn’t the only incident Christoph M. Berger, 24 is facing charges for. Not even 12 hours prior to him allegedly paddling to the school on a canoe to commit that crime..."
"The neighbor was mowing her lawn and ran the mower down the path to the pond. She stopped at a canoe on the path by the water and saw an animal lying inside it. “Holy cow, that’s a really big rabbit,” she thought. Then she realized it was actually a baby fawn in the boat. It didn’t try to get up. Was it injured? Will it be okay?..."
"Four guys went out on the Oconee River, on a five-day trip. On the fourth nigh, they pulled onto a sandbar to camp for the evening, and what they found will one day sit in a museum..."
"Born about 1740 in Tennessee, Dragging Canoe was perhaps the greatest diplomat ever produced by the Cherokees. Denied permission by his father to participate in a war party against the Shawnees, the youth hid in an overturned canoe. His father gave him permission to go on the war party if he could carry the canoe over the portage. Unable to lift the heavy vessel, he began dragging it along the portage. The cheering warriors began to chant “tsi-yu gansi-ni!” which means, “He is dragging the canoe!” From that time, he was known as Dragging Canoe..."
"What began as a fun paddle down a river for a Brainerd family turned into quite a bit more of an adventure than they planned. Things took a turn when the icy waters began moving more swiftly, giving way to river rapids. The change was unexpected for the group, Abigail said, and no one had experience navigating rapids..."
"Ghana's national canoe fishermen's council written to the Ghanaian president, calling for an intervention to end the illegal fishing practice known as saiko fishing, which it claims is driving stocks to collapse and threatening Ghana's food security and livelihoods. The practice provides jobs to 1,500 people, in contrast to the 140,000 direct jobs created by the canoe fishing industry..."