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Title: Paddling Magazine - Kayak, Canoe, SUP | Gear, Trips, Skills & Stories
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When I bought my first kayak, on the West Coast back in the early aughts, I was encouraged to get one of those inflatable paddle floats you stick on your paddle blade as an outrigger if you flip. These reassuring safety devices were everywhere then, spreading the tacit message not to worry, knowing how to […]
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There’s a glaring statistic in recreational boating: According to the U.S. Coast Guard, in 87 percent of boating-related drownings in 2024, the victim wasn’t wearing a personal flotation device. That number has been consistent within one or two percentage points for decades. Each year, paddlers account for one-quarter to one-third of those drownings. Even with […]
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Dramatic video from the Minnesota Air Rescue Team shows a nighttime helicopter mission that extracted a pair of paddlers from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). Rescuers navigated darkness, rain and dense tree cover to reach the pair, who had lost their boat and lacked the gear needed to make it through the night. First […]
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I read the prediction on a calm night two weeks into a trip tracing the Canadian shoreline of Lake Superior. We were sitting on a nameless cobble beach, watching the sunset and boiling water for tea. I pulled out a tea bag and read the tiny typed quote dangling at the end of the string: […]
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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran is causing effects far beyond the fuel pump. For the paddlesports industry, the disruption of the strategic waterway has triggered a sharp spike in the cost of the plastics vital to modern kayak manufacturing. From rotomolded polyethylene and thermoformed […]
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