NORTH ELBA, N.Y. – Oncoming hikers stepped off the trail and made way for two canoes being hauled up to Avalanche Lake. It looked hard-core, or crazy, shouldering the boats 4.4 miles into the ...

As boats go they often are overlooked, or at least have been in recent years, as evidenced by the ebb and flow of consumer wants and demands. But perhaps that is changing. Solo canoes and more ...

You see it all the time. Someone paddling solo in a tandem canoe with the bow high in the air like the boat's doing a big wheelie. There's a better way. Not only does a canoe wheelie look funny, it ...

Though not a hermit by nature, I do crave solitude, particularly in a canoe. One need look no further than the welter of solo canoe designs on offer to see I am not the only one. I easily counted ...

In 2015, Jon Babulic had the opportunity to leave a successful career in construction management, and with it the incentive to pursue a new career. The 43-year-old calls himself “a bit of a waterman.” ...

Robert "Mississippi Bob" Brown liked boats. He paddled them, sailed them, rowed them and raced them. He built small boats for himself and others by the dozens, and he created influential solo canoe ...

CASCADE - From his youth, when he worked at a summer camp in Maine where he watched a leathery old hand build Maine guide canoes, John Greer has wanted to build his own canoe. So when the lifelong ...

It was, Victoria Gonzalez admitted, her first time in a canoe, despite being of the ripe old age of 9 and living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But what made this paddle even more special for the Duluth ...

You see it all the time. Someone paddling solo in a tandem canoe with the bow high in the air like the boat's doing a big wheelie. There's a better way. Not only does a canoe wheelie look funny, it ...