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Build It Yourself
- Canoe and Kayak Building Resources
- A Special Siskiwit LV Built
- DIY Sawyer Gravity Filter
- How the Siskiwit LV Happened
- How to Install a Northstar Solo Kneeling Drop
- New Siskiwit SOF Kayak Hits the Water
- Siskiwit LV Launched
- A Siskiwit SOF Hits the Water
- Kayak Cockpit Placement Rule of Thumb
- A Skene Walrus Hits the Water
- What Kind of Kayak Cockpit Should I Buy or Build?
- How to Build a Kayak Stand or Canoe Stand for $20 or Less
- Launching: New Tandem Canoe — the PaddlingLight Ursa Canoe
- Printed Canoe Plans and Kayak Plans Plus Electronic Nestings
- FAQ: Siskiwit LV Sea Kayak
- Solo Canoe Yoke Plans for Portaging
- Homemade Sideburner Alcohol Stove
- Skin-on-Frame Version of the Unalaska Baidarka
- Bushcraft: Making a Willow Basket
- Outfitting Your Canoe’s Thwarts
- How to Decorate a Canoe Paddle
- Print Your Own NOAA Charts
- Siskiwit Bay Multi-Chined Kayak Plans for Plywood Building
- The Simplest of Seats
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit
- Building the Ken Taylor Igdlorssuit Kayak
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Part Three
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Part Four
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Part Five
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak-the Igdlorssuit – Launching
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Launching – Susie Islands
- How to Make a Fiberglass Skeg
- Building a Kayak Paddle – A La Volkskayak
- Nessmuking and Stitch and Glue Boat Building
- A Paddle with a Twist: Making a Feathered Kayak Paddle
- Easy Aluminum Fittings For a Sailing Canoe
- How To Make Woven Rope Carrying Handles
- Vacuum Bagging Techniques for Canoes and Kayaks
- Building a Nikumi
- Light but Strong – Building Cedar Strip Canoes for Wilderness Tripping
- Building a Perfect Kayak: My Adventure in Kayak Design and Cedar Strip Building
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Two
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Three
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Four
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Five
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Six
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Seven
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Eight
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part 9
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Ten
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Eleven
- Siskiwit Bay: The Initial Test
- The Second Test Run of the Siskiwit Bay Design
- How long does it take to build a cedar kayak?
- Cost of Siskiwit Bay Kayak
- Make Your Own Kayak Cockpit Cover
- Bryan’s Homebuilt Boats from 2004 and back
Canoes
- Stabilize a Tippy Solo Canoe
- Building Light – Can You Know What Your Boat Will Weigh?
- Skin-on-frame Têtes de Boule Hunter’s Canoe Built
- Free Kayak Plans and Free Canoe Plans
- Touring Sanborn Canoe Company’s Wood Shop
- Winter Canoe Paintings
- Launching: New Tandem Canoe — the PaddlingLight Ursa Canoe
- Builders Photos of the 1910 St. Francis Canoe
- Printed Canoe Plans and Kayak Plans Plus Electronic Nestings
- Solo Canoe Yoke Plans for Portaging
- How to Calculate Canoe Seat Positions
- Free Canoe Plan: 1898 Passamaquoddy Ocean Canoe
- New 2011 Wenonah Canoes
- New 2011 Mad River Canoe Models
- Outfitting Your Canoe’s Thwarts
- The View from the Canoe Project
- How to Decorate a Canoe Paddle
- Free Canoe Plan – Modern Malecite St. John River Canoe
- Easy Aluminum Fittings For a Sailing Canoe
- Light but Strong – Building Cedar Strip Canoes for Wilderness Tripping
- Bryan’s Homebuilt Boats from 2004 and back
- Wigeon: A Sailing Canoe
- How to Solo a Tandem Canoe
- How to Choose A Canoe
- Notus Racing and Cruising Canoe: An exercise in using FREE!ship
Equipment
- Sanborn Canoe’s New Minnesota State Flag Paddle
- Improve Bear Bagging with This Cord Winder
- DIY Sawyer Gravity Filter
- Solo Paddling Gear for the Boundary Waters
- Lightweight Camping Cook Set for Canoeing and Kayaking
- Kayaking Accessories for Beginners
- Best Backpacking Sleeping Pad for Paddling
- S24O: Kayaking Kit List
- Lightweight Cook Kit
- Greenland Paddles Can’t Get No Respect
- What I’d Bring on a Summer Canoe Trip
- Where to keep your kayak pump?
- Lightweight Stoves: Rated for Ease of Use and Weight
- Kayak Outfitting Idea: Non-Skid Tape to Prevent Jammed Fingers
- Touring Sanborn Canoe Company’s Wood Shop
- Ah, Matey, Drop the Kayak Sea Anchor (Drogue), We Be Waiting Out the Storm
- What Kind of Kayak Cockpit Should I Buy or Build?
- How to Choose a Dry Suit for Kayaking
- Wetsuit vs. Drysuit for Kayaking
- U.S. Coast Guard Required Signalling Devices for Kayakers
- Signaling Devices to Carry While Canoeing and Kayaking
- The Tuilik: a Perfect Bit of Kit for Winter Kayaking
- How to Pack Camera Gear For Kayaking and Canoeing
- Kayak Weathercocking vs. Tracking
- How to Pack a Sea Kayak Part 2: Packing Your Kayak
- Fall and Early Spring Canoe Camping Checklist – Extend Your Paddling Season
- More Kayaking Accessories for Beginners
- Lightweight Sub-5 Ounce Cook Kit
- How to Carry a Spare Kayak Paddle
- Down vs. Synthetic Sleeping Bags
- How to Use a VHF Radio
- Top Paddling Gear of 2010
- Lightweight Canister Stoves
- Lightweight Cooking Gear
- How to Take Advantage of Gear Warranties
- Increase Your Paddling Glove’s Grip with Sex Wax
- Outfitting Your Canoe’s Thwarts
- A Paddling Emergency Ditch Kit
- How to Decorate a Canoe Paddle
- Great Gift Ideas for Paddlers
- IKEA Tote Bags for Kayakers
- Throw Bags for Sea Kayaking
- Three Easy Tarp Setups
- An Example Lightweight First Aid Kit
- Cape Falcon Kayak Lightweight Gear List
- How to Use a Padded Food Pack
- Icom M72 VHF Radio Cheatsheet
- Things I Broke in 2007
- Get Bent: Using a Bent Shaft Canoe Paddle
- 35 Day Challenge
How to Choose
- How to pick a Northstar Solo Canoe
- How to Choose a Dry Suit for Kayaking
- Wetsuit vs. Drysuit for Kayaking
- Forward Paddling in a Kayak
- How to Choose A Canoe
- How to Choose a Tent
- How to Choose a Sleeping Bag
- Avoid the Beaver and Save the Weight: How to Choose a Water Filter
- How to Pick a Bell Solo Canoe
Kayaks
- A Special Siskiwit LV Built
- How the Siskiwit LV Happened
- New Siskiwit SOF Kayak Hits the Water
- Kayaking Accessories for Beginners
- SOF Siskiwit Bay Builder’s Log
- Siskiwit SOF Kayak Stolen!
- A Siskiwit SOF Hits the Water
- Kayak Cockpit Placement Rule of Thumb
- Kayaks For Sale
- Belcher Island Kayak Plans
- What Kind of Kayak Cockpit Should I Buy or Build?
- Super Secret Kayak Design
- How to Pack a Sea Kayak Part 2: Packing Your Kayak
- More Kayaking Accessories for Beginners
- Siskiwit Bay Skin-on-Frame Sea Kayak Plans
- How to Adjust a Sea Kayak
- Sea Kayak Cockpit Plans
- How to Carry a Spare Kayak Paddle
- Free Plans: 1921 Southwest Greenland Kayak
- Free Kayak Plans: 1883 Southwestern Greenland Kayak
- Paddling Weather Lore and Prediction
- Winter Kayaking
- Throw Bags for Sea Kayaking
- Make your NDK/SKUK Romany or Explorer Seat Comfy
- Siskiwit Bay Multi-Chined Kayak Plans for Plywood Building
- The Simplest of Seats
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit
- Building the Ken Taylor Igdlorssuit Kayak
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Part Three
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Part Four
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Part Five
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak-the Igdlorssuit – Launching
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak – the Igdlorssuit – Launching – Susie Islands
- How to Make a Fiberglass Skeg
- Building a Kayak Paddle – A La Volkskayak
- How To Make Woven Rope Carrying Handles
- Building a Nikumi
- Building a Perfect Kayak: My Adventure in Kayak Design and Cedar Strip Building
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Two
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Three
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Four
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Five
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Six
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Seven
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Eight
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part 9
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Ten
- Building a Perfect Kayak: Part Eleven
- Siskiwit Bay: The Initial Test
- The Second Test Run of the Siskiwit Bay Design
- How long does it take to build a cedar kayak?
- Cost of Siskiwit Bay Kayak
- Bryan’s Homebuilt Boats from 2004 and back
- Free Aleutian Baidarka Kayak Plans
- Free Kayak Plans From Glen Smith
- Igdlorssuit: Free Kayak Plans for the Boat Before Anas Acuta
- Siskiwit Bay Builder Photos
- Free Kayak Plans – Siskiwit Bay
- Goodnow Kayak Free Plans
Lightweight Philosophy
- Adding Ritual to Paddling Trips
- Simplicity in Wilderness Travel
- Experiential Values in Lightweight Canoe and Kayak Travel
- Lightweight Paddling Philosophy
- The Lightweight Secret
- 35 Day Challenge
- Getting Light Weight
- Much Ado About Nothing or Very Little at Least – Gear Lists
- Map Reading and Navigation
- Your Paddling Partners and Having Successful Trips
- Why Nessmuking?
- Nessmuking: A Return to Simple
Menu Planning
- Meal Planning: Stop Your Crackers from Crumbling
- NOLS Cookery Ration Planning
- A Simple Menu for a 12,000-mile Backcountry Journey
- 8 Lunch Ideas for Your Next Canoe or Kayak Trip
- Creamy Wild Rice and Chicken over Potatoes
- 10-day Solo Paddling Menu Plan
- 5 Quick and Healthy Breakfasts
News
- Paddle and Portage: a New Website for the Boundary Waters
- Fake Thermacell Mosquito Repellent Refills Sold on Amazon
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Protected!
- Spring Paddling Season is Here!
- PaddlingLight News Update
- Siskiwit SOF Kayak Stolen!
- A Skene Walrus Hits the Water
- A Year in the Wilderness: a BWCA Adventure
- Why I Got Out of the Sea Kayak Guiding Business
- First SUP Crossing to and Circumnavigation of Isle Royale
- Used Wilderness System Tsunami 175 and 165 Sea Kayaks For Sale -SOLD
- Website Note: PaddlingLight Got a Facelift
- Wilderness and Public Lands: You Own Them
- Slightly Off Topic: GOP Wants to Make Hikers and Bikers Pay to Hike and Bike
- National Parks Traveler’s Guide to Paddling the Parks Is Out
- Free Kayak Plans and Free Canoe Plans
- Welcome to Minnesota. Show Me Your Boat Trailer Papers, Please.
- Protect Wilderness and Our National Parks with Your Vote
- Kayaks For Sale
- River of Doubt Centennial Canoe Expedition Completed
- Kayak Deck Slates for Navigation
- Rhythm of the Hayes: Paddling Expedition to Hudson Bay
- Comfort Paddling Tuilik Deal and Win a Hoody
- Northstar Canoes: Bell is Back in Black-Lite
- Wilderness in America Under Attack (Still)
- The Death of Sea Kayaking?
- Looking For Kayak Action This Winter? Tune in to these great video casts
- Best of PaddlingLight in 2013
- National Hammock Day Giveaway
- Kayak Deck Slates
- Canoe & Kayak Magazine People’s Choice Award
- Press Release: Attempt to Circumnavigate the World Suspended
- The Roadless Coast Kayaking Trip Documentary is Now Free
- Solo Stove: a Lightweight Cooking Solution
- Winter Canoe Paintings
- PaddlingLight needs your help!!! Big time.
- Build Your Own Greenland-style Skin-on-Frame Kayak Course
- Kayaking and Canoeing Participation Rates
- The North American Odyssey Expedition
- Kayaking to the Sea: Sault Ste. Marie to Quebec City
- Summer and Instruction Speaking Schedule
- The Ikkatsu Project: Documenting the Tsunami Debris
- When They Want to Take Away Wilderness
- Canoeists Getting Older and Introducing Fewer New People to the Wilderness
- Canoe Outfitters Website Announcement
- To Protect Minnesota’s Water and Natural Heritage
- Free Canoe Plans and Free Kayak Plans Update
- Fatbikerafting the Arctic
- Winter Kayaking Tips and Resources
- Launching: New Tandem Canoe — the PaddlingLight Ursa Canoe
- The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Pagami Creek Fire
- Get Your Kayak Wet at the Gales Storm Gathering
- Win a Paddle from Sanborn Canoe Co.
- Free Canoe and Kayak Plan Project
- New 2011 Mad River Canoe Models
- The Eight Rules of Paddle Club
- Sanborn Canoe Co.
- Funny Kayak Videos
- Sulfide Mining Near America’s Most Used Canoe Wilderness Area
- Free Topo Maps for Your Garmin GPS
- Public Radio Interview with Nessmuking Author Bryan Hansel
- Kayaker Plans 5-month 3,800 Mile Circumnavigation of All Great Lakes
Personal Essays
- Following Winchell Expedition Trailer
- The Audacity of Winning Bold Kayaking Arguments on the Internet
- Living in the Last Scrap of the Golden Age of Wilderness Paddling
- Howl of the Wolf
- The Joy of Canoe
- Save the Boundary Waters From Cell Towers Letter Writing Campaign
- What’s Our Burden as More Experienced Kayakers?
- What’s the Difference between a Kayak or Canoe Expedition, Trip and Adventure?
- Waving Your Arms Past Your Head While Spinning in Circles
- Adding Ritual to Paddling Trips
- The Eight Rules of Paddle Club
- When did you start kayaking?
- Why I Canoe
- How I Got Started Paddling
- The View from the Canoe Project
- Website Update and Moving Forward
- IN THE WILDS OF PATAGONIA
- Things I Broke in 2007
- Down the Mississippi
- Some New Year’s Resolutions
- Getting By: Learning Life’s Little Lessons
- Multi-Tool Envy
- Where the Road Ends
Photography
- How to Pack Camera Gear For Kayaking and Canoeing
- 8 Canoe and Kayak Photography Composition Tips
- Public Domain Canoe and Kayak Images
- Taking Great Canoe and Sunset Pictures
- How to Photograph Northern Lights
- The Lomo and Canoes
- A Thousand Words For One Image
- Lake Superior Waves
- Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness VR Tour
Routes
- Kelso River Dolmen: A Boundary Waters Adventure
- Sag to Seagull Route Trip Report
- Lake Nipigon Kayaking Trip Report
- Source to Sound on North Carolina’s River of Death
- Twin Lakes Canoe Route Trip Report
- Kayaking Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast (Skeleton Coast)
- Free Boundary Waters Canoe Area GPS Data: Campsites and Portages
- Boundary Waters Routes: Sag and Sea Gull Loop
- Boundary Waters Day Trip: Bower Trout Lake BWCA
- Boundary Waters (BWCA) Primer
- Manitou River Kayaking Trip Report
- Susie Island Kayaking Trip Report
- Sea Gull Lake Loop Trip Report
- Kayaking Lake Superior’s Tettegouche State Park
- Boundary Water’s Route: The Hunt for the Viking Dolmen
- Kayaking on Lake Nipigon
- Lake Superior Day Trip – Grand Marais to Fall River and Beyond
- Day Trip: Top Falls in the BWCA
- Vern River Loop
Technique
- Custom NOAA Charts for Free
- Stabilize a Tippy Solo Canoe
- Kayak Paddle Size
- 7 Canoe Camping Tips
- Meal Planning: Stop Your Crackers from Crumbling
- DIY Lightweight First Aid Kit – How to make one
- How to Stay Clean While Camping
- NOLS Cookery Ration Planning
- How to Cook Bannock on a Stick – Campfire Bread
- How to Pack a Sea Kayak Part 1: Selecting and Packing Dry Bags
- How to Dispose of Fish Guts in the Boundary Waters
- Building Light – Can You Know What Your Boat Will Weigh?
- A Simple Menu for a 12,000-mile Backcountry Journey
- Launching Your Kayak in Light Surf
- Navigation: Leave Your Compass at Home and Use Handrails and Fences
- Paddle Float Rescue with Heel Hook
- Why didn’t the kayaker cross the road? Ferry angles in kayaking
- Kayak Camping: A lesson in leaving no trace and how to poop in the woods
- Wetsuit vs. Drysuit for Kayaking
- Guerrilla Camping for Canoeists and Kayakers
- Stealth Camping: the Path of the Ninja Paddler
- How to Call Mayday When Kayaking or Canoeing
- How to Pack Camera Gear For Kayaking and Canoeing
- 8 Lunch Ideas for Your Next Canoe or Kayak Trip
- Canoe and Kayak Navigation Articles
- Organizing Camping Gear for Canoe Camping and Kayak Camping
- Learning the Greenland-style Storm Roll Part 2: The Kayak Roll
- Learning the Greenland-style Storm Roll Part 1: The Foundations
- Shoulder Exercises for Kayaking and Canoeing
- Kayak Weathercocking vs. Tracking
- The Risks of Cold Water Paddling
- Winter Kayaking Tips and Resources
- How to Pack a Sea Kayak Part 2: Packing Your Kayak
- High Angle Vs. Low Angle Paddling
- More Kayaking Accessories for Beginners
- 22 Ways to Improve Your Kayaking Skills Forever
- Kayak Paddle Stuck Together? This Is How To Get It Apart
- The Risks of Cold Water Kayaking and Canoeing
- How to Print Free Canadian Topographic Maps Quickly and Inexpensively
- How to Adjust a Sea Kayak
- Navigation: Dead Reckoning
- Navigation: Doubling Angle on the Bow Fix
- How to Carry a Spare Kayak Paddle
- Winter Kayaking Checklist
- Navigation: Fixes and Triangulation
- Kayaking Through Winter Sea Ice
- Navigation: How to Use a Compass
- Down vs. Synthetic Sleeping Bags
- Navigation: Variation and Declination
- Navigation: Course, Bearings and Headings
- Navigation: Read a Marine Chart Part 2
- Creamy Wild Rice and Chicken over Potatoes
- Navigation: Read a Marine Chart Part 1
- Navigation: Ranges
- Navigation: Aiming Off
- Understanding Magnetic Deviation
- 10-day Solo Paddling Menu Plan
- How to Recognize Drowning
- Outfitting Your Canoe’s Thwarts
- How Much Faster is the Longer Kayak?
- Quick Emergency Fix for a Broken Zipper
- Winter Kayaking
- How Far Away is the Horizon
- A Paddling Emergency Ditch Kit
- Wilderness Survival School Presentation
- 5 Quick and Healthy Breakfasts
- Throw Bags for Sea Kayaking
- Three Easy Tarp Setups
- A Visual View of Wave Height
- Estimating Wave Height for Canoes and Kayaks
- Canoecopia 2009: Canadian Style Canoeing with the Kraikers
- 8 Easy Ways to Go Lighter
- Cape Falcon Kayak Lightweight Gear List
- How to Clean a Drysuit
- Tarp Shelter Set-up
- Acorn Whistle
- The Lightweight Secret
- Cell Phones in the Wilderness
- Forward Paddling in a Kayak
- BWCA: Insider Tips
- Lost and Found: What to do when you find something in the Woods
- How to Use a Padded Food Pack
- How to Solo a Tandem Canoe
- Get Bent: Using a Bent Shaft Canoe Paddle
Trip Reports
- Kelso River Dolmen: A Boundary Waters Adventure
- Following the Winchell Expedition Video Presentation
- Following Winchell Expedition Trailer
- Retreat! We Bailed from the Canoe Trip
- An Ode to Beaver Dams
- Free Boundary Waters Guidebook
- Sag to Seagull Route Trip Report
- The First Roll Expedition
- Bikepacking in Canoe Country
- Lake Nipigon Kayaking Trip Report
- How to Take a $H!T in the BWCAW
- Wooden Boat Show in Grand Marais Trip Report
- Canoe Lovers: Grand Portage Rendezvous Days and Powwow
- It’s All in the Knot
- Grand Portage National Monument Rendezvous Days and Powwow
- Spring(?) Kayaking on Brule Lake in the BWCA
- Kayaking Norway’s Lofoten Islands
- Twin Lakes Canoe Route Trip Report
- Two Pictures: Tettegouche State Park and Pigeon Bay Kayaking Trips
- Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Symposium Trip Report
- Kayaking the Canadian Sauna Islands on Lake Superior
- Kayaking to the Sea: Sault Ste. Marie to Quebec City
- Kayaking in the Apostle Island Sea Caves
- Apostle Island Sea Kayaking Trip Report
- Kayaking Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast (Skeleton Coast)
- Boundary Waters Border Route Trip Report
- Soo to Hessel: The Curse of the Last Day
- Boundary Waters Routes: Sag and Sea Gull Loop
- THE SKELETON COAST: Paddling Lake Superior’s Desolate Southeast Shore
- Ninja Paddling – The Path of the Ninja Paddler
- Boundary Waters Day Trip: Bower Trout Lake BWCA
- For Whom The Old Presque Isle Bell Tolls
- Port Huron to Home Expedition: Twitter Posts Day 24 to 45
- Port Huron to Home Solo Kayaking Expedition
- Bryan’s Spring/Summer 2011 Kayaking Adventure
- Head North to Old Woman: A Lake Superior Kayaking Adventure
- 12 Months of Paddling
- Hiking Eagle Mountain, Minnesota
- Boundary Waters (BWCA) Primer
- The Paddles of Walter Caribou
- Fram Museum Kayaks and Kayaking Gear
- Manitou River Kayaking Trip Report
- Susie Island Kayaking Trip Report
- Mishipeshu on Lake Superior in Agawa Bay Trip Report
- Manido Gizhigans, Spirit Little Cedar Tree, the Witch Tree
- Sea Gull Lake Loop Trip Report
- Kayaking Lake Superior’s Tettegouche State Park
- The View from the Canoe Project
- Winter Kayaking
- Wilderness Survival School Presentation
- Boundary Water’s Route: The Hunt for the Viking Dolmen
- Kayaking on Lake Nipigon
- Public Radio Interview with Nessmuking Author Bryan Hansel
- Borden to Grand Rapids: A River Traveller’s Challenge
- Skiing the Cascade River
- Shoulder High: A Georgian Bay Trip
- IN THE WILDS OF PATAGONIA
- Last Day in Paradise: a Boundary Waters trip report by Richard “Doc” Gams
- Canoecopia 2007
- Lake Superior Day Trip – Grand Marais to Fall River and Beyond
- Adventures in the Hills: The 2006 Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup
- Up a Lazy River: A solo canoe trip in the Boundary Waters
- An Electric Paddle On Buffalo Creek
- Day Trip: Top Falls in the BWCA
- Vern River Loop
- Canoecopia 2006: Trip Report
- Along the Banks of the Saskatchewan: A Kayak Trip Down the Saskatchewan River
- Interview With a Solo Canoeist: Part Two
- Interview With a Solo Canoeist
- Canoecopia 2005: Trip Report
- Disaster at The Saskatchewan Crossing
- Solo in the Boundary Waters – Fall 2003
- Summer Journal 2004 – Canoeing the Namekagon, St. Croix, and Mississippi Rivers.
- Boundary Waters Solo, September 2004
- Building Ken Taylor 1959 Kayak-the Igdlorssuit – Launching
- 2007 Meet at the Beach – Minnesota
- Down the Mississippi
Tutorial
- Custom NOAA Charts for Free
- Kayak Paddle Size
- How to Install a Northstar Solo Kneeling Drop
- How to Store and Clean a Sawyer Water Filter for the Off Season
- How to Cook Bannock on a Stick – Campfire Bread
- Kayaking Accessories for Beginners
- What I Carry on my Life Vest for Kayaking
- How to Pick the Perfect Campsite
- How to Install a NDK Kayaks High Performance Seat
- Print BSB Raster Charts the Easy Way: NOAA Charts for Free
- The Path to Torso Rotation
- Guerrilla Camping for Canoeists and Kayakers
- Stealth Camping: the Path of the Ninja Paddler
- How to Call Mayday When Kayaking or Canoeing
- Organizing Camping Gear for Canoe Camping and Kayak Camping
- How to Print Free Canadian Topographic Maps Quickly and Inexpensively
- Boundary Waters (BWCA) Primer
- Navigation: How to Use a Compass
- How to Use a VHF Radio
- NOAA Marine Chart Converter
- Paddling Weather Lore and Prediction
- How to Replace Your Kayak’s End Toggle
- Outfitting Your Canoe’s Thwarts
- How Much Faster is the Longer Kayak?
- Quick Emergency Fix for a Broken Zipper
- How Far Away is the Horizon
- How to Decorate a Canoe Paddle
- Free Topo Maps for Your Garmin GPS
- Three Easy Tarp Setups
- A Visual View of Wave Height
- Make your NDK/SKUK Romany or Explorer Seat Comfy
- Estimating Wave Height for Canoes and Kayaks
- Print Your Own NOAA Charts
- The Simplest of Seats
- How to Make a Fiberglass Skeg
- Building a Kayak Paddle – A La Volkskayak
- A Paddle with a Twist: Making a Feathered Kayak Paddle
- Easy Aluminum Fittings For a Sailing Canoe
- How To Make Woven Rope Carrying Handles
- Vacuum Bagging Techniques for Canoes and Kayaks
- Light but Strong – Building Cedar Strip Canoes for Wilderness Tripping
- Layout Panels from Hulls
- How to Solo a Tandem Canoe
- Icom M72 VHF Radio Cheatsheet
- The Lomo and Canoes
- A Thousand Words For One Image
- Notus Racing and Cruising Canoe: An exercise in using FREE!ship
- Igdlorssuit: Free Kayak Plans for the Boat Before Anas Acuta