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Renovating An Old Canoe While Running A Marathon (Video)
Productivity experts out there likely know the Pomodoro Technique well. The time management method invented by Italian Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s. While attending...
Winter Storage Tips For Your Canoe, Kayak or Standup Paddleboard (Video)
When the lake starts to freeze over and snow blankets the access road, many paddlers call it a season and move on to winter...
The Kayak Storage Solution For Any Backyard (Video)
Who says you don’t have room for a few more kayaks? Property square footage comes at a premium these days, and that means you...
3 Top Techniques To Build Your Own Kayak
To build your own kayak is to take part in a 4,000-year-old tradition beginning when the first Inuit hunter pieced together driftwood and sealskin...
Expert Tips To Easily Fix Your Leaky Drysuit (Video)
Drysuits are an investment. In challenging weather conditions, they are a tool to keep you warm, dry and safe. As with any investment, it’s...
An Ingenious Way To Store Your Canoe Or Kayak (Video)
Looking to shield your kayak or canoe from the elements, but don’t fancy the extra clutter on your garage floor? Nick's Life Outside is...
How To Make Cowboy Coffee That Actually Tastes Good (Video)
Learn to make a great backcountry coffee the old-fashioned way for your camping adventures. This technique, often called cowboy coffee, has been used by...
The Perfect DIY First Aid Kit For Paddlers
Paddlers who spend enough time on the water see injuries. Cuts and scratches are frequent while, fortunately, more serious injuries are rare. However, even management...
This Man Turned Three Pianos Into A Canoe (Video)
Piano technician George Klassen found himself with spare time on his hands during the early stages of the pandemic. Inspired by images of hand-built...
7 Camping Food Hacks For Overnight Trips (Video)
Whether we're loading up a cooler or cramming supplies into a dry bag that’s one size too small—we seasoned campers have come to realize...
Fixed Her Kayak With A Condom, Won Olympic Gold (Video)
Australian canoe slalom champion Jess Fox has been the talk of the internet in recent weeks. Sure, she just bagged two Olympic medals and...
Man Builds Full-Size Newspaper Canoe During Lockdown (Video)
David Parker found himself with a fair amount of free time on his hands during the coronavirus lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand. As a recreational...
This Engineering Student Built His Kayak From Scratch—Here’s How (Video)
Engineering student Konrad Van Varseveld has never shied away from a good ol’ DIY challenge. After recently building a hydrospeed (a whitewater riverboard) out...
Build Your Own Bushcraft Kayak For $1 (Video)
In this video, YouTuber Advoko Makes shows how to build a quick and easy bushcraft kayak. The idea is simple: you can build a...
DIY Light-Up Clear Kayak (Video)
This homemade fiberglass kayak uses LEDs to light up the night. After building a cedar-strip canoe, engineer and vlogger Xyla Foxlin wondered if she...
DIY Canoe Tree
At Paddling Magazine, we’re firm believers you can never have too many canoes. Unless, of course, you run out of room for them. So,...
6 Home Decor Ideas To Repurpose Your Old Canoe
The best use for a canoe is to paddle it. Sometimes though, canoes reach the end of their lives or we find a cheap...
5 DIY Canoe Upgrades You Can Do This Weekend
Canoes don’t stay the same forever. Wear, different paddling conditions and changing needs can all call for modifications. Many paddlers believe modifications are the...
How To Canoe On Jell-O
Well before California’s stay-at-home order came into effect on March 19, 2020, Los Angeles photographer Erin Sullivan had a plan in place. She had...
Mike Ranta Shows You How To Whittle A Canoe
Spend 60-minutes handcrafting a tiny prospector for someone with big dreams.
Build Your Own Battery-Operated Kayak Bilge Pump
Having a hands-free means of pumping out a flooded cockpit has great advantages and I have always outfitted my kayaks with a foot-operated bilge...
Chris Vermeulen Builds DIY Paddleboard Jet Drive
Inventing the machine to catch the ultimate surf.
Get The Best Backcountry Sleep Ever—In Your Canoe
What makes the best bed on a canoe trip? Some say a thick pad in a tent. Others swear by a hammock. Still others...
How To Make Your Own Voyageur Hat
Canada’s modern-day voyageur is windbound in a spruce swamp on the edge of Cedar Lake, Manitoba. Windy days have been a theme on this...
What’s In: Sarah and Boomer’s Tiny Home
When you're used to fitting everything you need into two kayak hatches and living out of a tent for months at a time, 280...
How To Make The Perfect DIY First Aid Kit
Without customization, your first aid kit is potentially just a heavy and bulky piece of junk. Yes, you read that right. Whether it’s an...
Workshop Confessions: What It’s Like To Build A Pygmy Kayak
Surviving self-doubt, limited skills and a busy schedule Adventure Kayak’s intrepid editor and rookie boat builder, Virginia Marshall, learns that bringing a wood kayak into...
Skills: Soup Up Your Ride
So you’ve found your dream kayak, but a few details still need tweaking. There are countless ways to personalize your kayak—some some fast and...
Video: How to Repair a Kayak on the Water
This advice could save your paddling partner and your entire trip
What’s In: Adventure Kayak Editor’s DIY Camper Van
No, this isn’t a scene from a Jerry Seinfeld spin-off series titled Kayakers in Cars Getting Comfy. It’s AK editor Virginia Marshall’s plywood-and-propane van...
The Van Life: 6 Rigs To Live Cheap & Paddle More
When it comes to the van life, this famous warning likely rings through your head: “You’ll be living in a van down by the river!”
Chris...
Skills: DIY Wilderness Survival Kit
Survival skills for canoe trips may seem like overkill to most weekend warriors or occasional enthusiasts, but dont be fooled - weather can be...
DIY Fire Starters
This campcraft article about how to make homemade fire starters was first published in Canoeroots and Family Camping magazine.
While nothing beats starting a fire...
6 Steps For Building A DIY Backcountry Sauna
The sauna (sow-na), or sweat, is a traditional pastime used for thousands of years. A sauna generally involves creating hot steam in a closed...
14 Expert-Tested Ideas For Customizing Your Open Boat
Canoe modification techniques to ensure your boat is perfect for you.
Kayak Repair: How To Fix a Cracked Kayak
Expert advice for welding your broken boat.
