canoeing

  1. DertyDers

    Question Down the Mississippi in rat rod canoe sailboat

    So I’ve been drawing up the plan for years now and this summer I’m going to achieve the goal of making it down the Mississippi River in canoes. The plan has evolved and my girlfriend Destinee and I are gonna try something a little crazy. We want to convert back and forth between two canoes and a...
  2. ntdxc1878

    Canoeing the Mississippi !?

    I got this idea I'm super excited about... so hear me out and feel free to destroy me if the idea is terrible. I'm thinking train hop and hitch up to Minnesota or wherever one of the tributaries of the Mississippi starts from. Should be cake, just rail tramping with my pack, nothing new. Get...
  3. Carlvanguyrios

    Anyone ever tried a Canoe Sail like this?

    Has anyone ever tried using a sail like this to travel by canoe? I'm interested in Canoe traveling and am considering buying this. Seems like it would be well worth it to spend 20 bucks. I am traveling with a canoe...
  4. The Heron and the frog

    Curious coyote

    It is more than 2 years since I left for my first big adventure and I still recall certain memories sometimes. The trip has made me strong and unafraid to venture into new adventures. The beauty of it all sometimes comes to me in aid and motivates me to continue because I do remember that it...
  5. D

    Cambodia and a 1983 canoe trip

    "I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the...
  6. Phil

    Anyone ever try living/ traveling by canoe on the river?

    Iv been recently really interested in canoeing. any advice would be much appreciated. - Gear - Tips - Experiences - Warnings - Laws -Survival -Food -Etc.
  7. sucuri

    Photos Little canoe, big river

    View from Barcelos today, down to my faithful little boat :D
  8. sucuri

    Photos Some photos from three years by canoe in the Amazon Basin...

    Rio Deméni, Barcelos, Amazonas (2013) Rio Negro, Novo Airão, Amazonas (2013) Rio Negro, Barcelos, Amazonas (2014) Rio Aracá, Barcelos, Amazonas (2013) Rio Amazonas, Parintins, Amazonas (2012) Rio Mauwe-Açú, Maués, Amazonas (2013) Rio Amazonas, Santarém, Pará (2012) Dad taking care...
  9. sucuri

    Canoeing in the Amazon, come as you are

    So I've been doing this canoeing bit down here for a few years now. I've got some home bases (right now, Barcelos, AM) but am always moving around. Really I think I'm gonna hit the river for a long stretch pretty soon (maybe for like four months). I had someone coming for a loong trip this...
  10. Wesley Boem

    Canoeing the Colorado River!

    A friend, her dog, an I are planning on canoeing the Colorado River from Colorado to California. Any advise or warnings?
  11. ThatDrunkGuy

    Canoe seat restoration

    I was walking around a neighbor hood and came across an old fiberglass canoe laid in someones yard with a free sign posted to it so I grabbed my buddies and carried it almost 5 miles to where we are staying. we set it up on a table and put water in it, doesn't appear to have any leaks. the...
  12. landpirate

    How to Make a Plywood Canoe

    landpirate submitted a new file to the downloads area: How to Make a Plywood Canoe - plans and instructions on how to make a plywood canoe. Click here to learn more about this file...
  13. E

    Canal via Canoe

    From 7-28-08 NY TIMES BROCKPORT, N.Y. — On a rain-soaked evening last week, a small group of people darted through the streets of this Erie Canal town to a large bookstore that anchors Main Street. Skip to next paragraph Related Christopher Bell's Music on MySpace Enlarge This Image James...