Backcountry Custom Canoes, an upstart Ontario manufacturer pushes the limits of lightweight canoe and kayak construction. In 2015, Jon Babulic had the opportunity to leave a successful career in ...

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 ...

Darren Bush tests and reviews 5 lightweight, 17-foot canoes in the Boundary Waters. It’s a little embarrassing to admit this, but I own a baker’s dozen of canoes. That number fluctuates up and down a ...

The North Country has so many lakes and rivers, and that means we have a lot of well-known boat builders. A canoe builder in the southern... Oct 25, 2023 — The North Country has so many lakes and ...

Whether you like a slow, easy paddle on a calm, flat lake or a more vigorous and challenging romp through Class III rapids, your equipment makes all the difference when it comes to spending the day on ...

His Work: George Wilson and his team at Kamanu Composites manufacture lightweight outrigger canoes using modern materials, with the Noio one-person canoe weighing only 16 to 17 pounds. Most of their ...

On any calm morning in downtown Kitchener, it's not unusual to spot man in a clear boat paddling across the still waters of Victoria Park Lake. It might look too fragile to carry weight — because it ...

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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. On any calm morning in downtown Kitchener, it's not unusual to spot man in a clear boat paddling ...