I awoke fresh and ready to go after my night on the platform. I got up, had a nice hot cup of coffee, shot some pictures of the morning sun rising over the horizon and then slowly started to pack things up. As I loaded the canoe, I noticed the sky was getting darker. I […]
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Paddling Safety: Weather
What if I told you that you could die while paddling, even on a slow moving river? Remember the example of that nice March day in the south in my last post? Consider this: you chose to wear that cotton t-shirt and were paddling along on the lake, when your attention got diverted. You knew […]
Paddling Safety: Equipment
When I got on the water in Maine, I had one thing going for me: equipment. Every environment is going to have different challenges, as we learned in our previous safety post. Rivers, ocean, weather and location all will bring with it different challenges and the different challenges will require different skills and different equipment. […]
