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Paddling Safety: Skills

In the fifth and final post in our series on pad­dling safety, I will tell you what I feel are the most impor­tant skills to have as a pad­dler. And I can guar­an­tee that these skills are not what you’re expect­ing! We’ve all heard the joke about being up a creek with­out a pad­dle. Even […]

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. […]

Paddling Safety: What I Learned in Maine

It was day two on my trip to Maine and I awoke that morn­ing to a slight driz­zle. My orig­i­nal plan was to spend 4 nights and 5 days on the water, explor­ing the many islands that make up the Downeast coast­line in Maine. With the poten­tial for rain com­ing, I made the deci­sion to […]

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