Rabu, 27 Mac 2013
Funny Poling Pics - Outdoor Sports & Games eBook
Came across an interesting free online book at Gutenberg.org entitled Outdoor Sports and Games (1911), by Claude H. Miller. Chapter 16 is entitled HOW TO SWIM AND TO CANOE and has a series of comical pics about how to pole a canoe...hey whatever works right?
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Sabtu, 23 Mac 2013
Adney - Their First Moose Hunt Illustration
Another great bark canoe and paddle illustration by Tappan Adney, this one found in St. Nicholas Vol XXIII - March 1896 - NO. 5 in an article entitled, "Their First Moose Hunt"
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Rabu, 20 Mac 2013
Celebrity Canoe Paddles: Silent Film Star Pearl White
Found another vintage paddling photo - this one a postcard of silent film actress, Pearl White.
The canoe is a gorgeous looking closed-gunnel model with considerable tumblehome and slender, classic heart shaped decks. Her paddle has some decorative banding on the blade...
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The canoe is a gorgeous looking closed-gunnel model with considerable tumblehome and slender, classic heart shaped decks. Her paddle has some decorative banding on the blade...
Sabtu, 16 Mac 2013
Historic Paddle Art - J Peachey Canoe
Here's an image by James Peachey (active 1773-1797) documenting a stylized canoe with inhabitats. Paddles look to be painted red fitting the theme of earlier images...
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Rabu, 13 Mac 2013
Paddle Tumplines & Bark Canoes
Here's a vintage photo dated to 1906 showing some bark canoes at a trading camp close to Lake Temiskaming in central Ontario. Interesting construction details show that the gunnels are secured with nails instead of time consuming root lashings and the paddles are rigged with tumplines on the centre thwart for portaging.
Un campement sur les bords du lac Sharp pr�s du lac T�miscamingue ligne du C. P. R.
L'album universel, Vol. 23, no. 1157, pp. 257 (30 juin 1906)
L'album universel, Vol. 23, no. 1157, pp. 257 (30 juin 1906)
Isnin, 11 Mac 2013
Celebrity Paddles: Vera Ellen (1945)
One of my new favourite vintage canoeing pics. This one of Hollywood actress Vera Ellen (1945) putting her weight behind a paddle stroke...
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Actress Vera Ellen paddling a boat at Lake Arrowhead.Location: US
Date taken: May 1945
Photographer: Martha Holmes
Jumaat, 8 Mac 2013
"New" Canoe Tripping Forums - CanoeTripping.net
Like many folks interested in canoeing, I'm an occasional poster on a variety of forums. One of my favourites before the site was hacked and destroyed by malicious folks last summer was SoloTripping.com. It was a real treasure trove of quality info from like-minded canoe trippers. Unfortunately, after speaking with the site owner at the recent Outdoor Adventure Show here in Toronto, it looks like the site will be gone for good.
However, another lesser known forum - CanoeTripping.net - has recently come to my attention. It is going through a rebirth of sorts and is now being run by a fellow wooden canoe enthusiast, Robin, who has taken his fleet of Chestnut cedar canvas canoes on some impressive backcountry trips.
Lately there have been some really fun trip reports posted by some folks and I've posted some of my own experiences there as well. I've found the small but growing community there very welcoming. So if anyone wants to contribute and share their experiences feel free to head on over...
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However, another lesser known forum - CanoeTripping.net - has recently come to my attention. It is going through a rebirth of sorts and is now being run by a fellow wooden canoe enthusiast, Robin, who has taken his fleet of Chestnut cedar canvas canoes on some impressive backcountry trips.
Lately there have been some really fun trip reports posted by some folks and I've posted some of my own experiences there as well. I've found the small but growing community there very welcoming. So if anyone wants to contribute and share their experiences feel free to head on over...
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