When you line a canoe, you’re far less likely to flip your boat if you pull from the keel line rather than the painter. We were finally in the Du Pas River when we took some time to rig our lining ...

Think of it as the Nike-ization of sports and recreation. Nike is hardly alone, but it is surely the most recognizable of the multitude of businesses that make it their business to endlessly re-invent ...

I have paddled my canoe along streams, motored it up rivers, and even sailed it across lakes. But when I lift it now, it seems to have grown heavier than when I bought it in 1976! So, I decided it ...

Trace Wisconsin’s waterways with French voyageurs and early trade routes. Host Doris Platt and guest David McNamara trace how canoes, keelboats and steamships opened Wisconsin to trade and settlement.

The decision to purchase a canoe ran counter to a long-standing personal rule about boats in general - it's better to rent than own unless a watercraft of any kind is going to be used frequently. An ...

In an era of increasingly complicated regulations and sophisticated technologies disrupting the workboat sector, one piece of the equipment – the Keel Cooler – remains as possibly the most important ...