Canoeing News

KARATE, athletics and canoeing dominated the Osprey Life, Health+Leisure Sports Award for July, August and September.

The toughest part was the anticipation. Whenever passers-by on McCoy Drive would whiz past Spring Lake Park this summer, they saw exciting glimpses of what was taking shape.

UPDATED 9 PM -- ALAIEDON TWP - Divers will begin searching again Wednesday morning for a second victim in a canoeing accident that occurred this evening in Columbia Lake.

Several crews were dispatched to Rockbridge County on Sunday night to rescue two Albermarle County volunteer firefighters left stranded after their canoe capsized.

David and Marilyn Barber of Gobles were enjoying a beautiful fall afternoon on the Kalamazoo River near Fennville Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities in southwestern Michigan say a 67-year-old man drowned after his canoe overturned on the Kalamazoo River.

The death of an Illinois man canoeing on the Buffalo River Wednesday was due to natural causes rather than drowning, according to Buffalo National River Park Chief Ranger Bob Maguire.

MANLIUS TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Emergency crews have recovered the body of a Gobles man involved in a canoeing accident in the Kalamazoo River.

Allegan County Deputies were joined by DNR Conservation Officers and Fennville Fire fighters in a rescue attempt on the Kalamazoo River Wednesday.

Before it was the Hi-Hat club, the building lost to a fire at Tatassit Beach was the Tolassit Canoe Club.

The Missouri Water Patrol has identified the Evansville, Ind., man who died while canoeing on Jacks Fork River as James Catt.

For some a sea kayak is merely a canoe with certain additional attributes. A few might say that by adding a few skirts - a canoe transforms into a kayak.

Two University of Winnipeg students canoeing to New Orleans have made it as far as Fargo.

Quality leaf peeping doesn't require a long drive to the Berkshires. For outdoor enthusiasts like Jim Cole, the author of Paddling Connecticut and Rhode Island, southern New England offers some spectacular foliage with little adventures close to home.

LANCASTER - Trust. It's as important to any canoe or kayak racer as a paddle or life vest.

The Malta Canoe Federation is organising the MCF Hospice Movement 24 Hour Challenge in aid of The Malta Hospice Movement from Saturday October 17 at 10.00h till Sunday October 18 at 10.00h, weather permitting.

It's not exactly canoeing weather, but that's not stopping two men, who started a soul searching adventure in Winnipeg and won't stop riding the river until they get to New Orleans.

A fisherman drowned in the Watauga River about 10:30 a.m. Thursday when he apparently stood up in a canoe, causing it to tip over.

The last time David Morine was in the North Country was six years ago. Then, he and his canoeing companion, Ramsay Peard, were at the beginning of a trip that took him down the Connecticut River from Colebrook all the way to Long Island Sound.

It was aA very close call for two boaters out on the flooded Guadalupe RiverA Wednesday.A A Before they got very far, they say things took a terrifying turn.