How Esquif Canoes Made the Most of a Factory Fire and an 8-Week Shutdown At this Canadian canoe maker's factory, a specialty material oven caught fire on Oct. 1, halting operations until yesterday.

Esquif’s Heron is a high-quality canoe with the capacity of a skiff. At 14-feet, 6-inches long, the Heron has room for three anglers. And with an 800-pound capacity, there’s also space for tackle, ...

Quebec canoe manufacturer Esquif debuts T-Formex, a moldable ABS material poised to be a lighter and more resistant alternative to defunct Royalex, RIP.

Esquif, a French-Canadian manufacturer of a variety of Royalex canoes, is a whitewater canoe company, and so naturally river-running is the direction in which they take the design of their ...

But these days, with the help of Canadian canoe company Esquif's replacement product dubbed T-Formex, two northwest Arkansas canoe makers are back in business.

Best Canoe: Esquif Huron 15 ($2,099) Best Packraft: Alpacka Refuge ($1,325) Best Whitewater Kayak: Pyranha Firecracker ($1,699) Best Recreational Kayak: Old Town Ocean Kayak Malibu Two XL ($1,200) ...

He said the Kettle is a go-to river for many ("It's close and always fun"). Friend likes to launch his nine-foot Esquif canoe, which stands equal to the smaller kayaks as a versatile, solid play boat.

So, Wee Bata Canoe Shop was born in the back of the ice cream store. "Wee Bata" is Scottish for "small boat," explained Pirie, whose grandparents were born in Scotland.

Sunday morning about 75 paddlers in a slightly smaller number of canoes and kayaks started a 92-mile journey down the Namekagon River in northwestern Wisconsin. Earth Journal writer Ron Meador ...

MONTPELIER — Green River Reservoir State Park has received a donation of a new Esquif cargo canoe, equipped with a Torqeedo electric outboard motor and battery system, from The Friends of Green River ...

When the supply of Royalex dried up years ago, Arkansas-based canoe makers who rely on the material found themselves up a creek without a paddle. Skip to content. Close. Back ...