THE RIVER POURS between the boulders, each scarred with red and green paint left by canoes that didn’t thread this needle quite neatly enough. Standing in the boat, I twist to the right to plant the ...

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Chip Cochrane is the Maine woods come to life—a gnarled tree trunk of a man with enough muscle to power his canoe against rushing whitewater. The third-generation Maine Guide’s raw strength and ...

Late on a July afternoon, we began poling up Wisconsin's Brule River. Four canoes, eight of us in all. We would move upstream a couple of miles, find an appropriate spot and grill brats and chicken ...

Fisherman Ron Hyde of Homestead, Fla. wasn’t thinking about the environment or conserving fuel when he started designing a new motorized flats canoe with a tunnel hull to fish in shallow water. He ...

The St. Croix is a dream river for a beginner’s canoe clinic, a sampler — starting with the lake, moving on to smaller, then increasingly larger rapids, with plenty of shallows for poling and ...

PORT TOWNSEND– Cedar bough and sage, eagle feather and drum, salt water and fresh. Six elements from nature came together Sunday to purify and bless the cedar-frame canoe built by Jared Fennell and ...

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