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Before you can truly call yourself a paddler, there are a handful of paddling skills you'll need to master. Here's our list of the 20 most essential skills.

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Becky Mason instructs paddling skills at Meech Lake, in Eastern Quebec, 20 mins north of Ottawa. While on tour she presents her slideshows and also teaches her Classic Canoeing. She has many tips about canoeing and has produced a Basic and Adv instructional downloadable video.

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Don Starkell, who canoed from Winnipeg to the Amazon River and kayaked from Hudson Bay to the mouth of the McKenzie River, passed away over the weekend from at the age of 79. In 1980, Don and his two sons began a 20,000 km canoe trip from Winnipeg to Brazil. One son would leave the expedition and journey took almost two years, but when finished Don and his other son Dana would enter the Guinness Book of World Records for longest canoe journey. In 1990, Starkell began his 5,000 km kayak…

I’ve been building canoes for 30+ years starting with cedar strippers. I love the beauty of the wood, especially blending different wood species. My hobby evolved into building cold-molded ca…

Steeped in heritage and acclaimed internationally for renowned canoe design and quality, Clipper Canoes has been building watercraft since 1976. The company has developed a reputation as one of North America's top-rated canoe manufacturers.

I was working on a design for a short (slightly less than 8 feet long) small, flat-panel, hard-chine canoe the other day when I clicked the wrong button in my design software. That's when the hard chines became soft and all of a sudden I was looking at a really cute, curvy little canoe! Naturally it must be molded instead of using flat panel construction, but after I saw it I decided to see how much weight it might be able to carry. I found that if the boat weighs 30 pounds it can…