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Paddling Pathogens

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on
 September 1, 2016
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High Waters, High Risk? Recent annual high water and flood events in North America sometimes provide kayakers and canoeists with new paddling opportunities. What dangers may lurk in the murk? We’ve all seen the news images in recent years depicting kayakers or canoeists plying the flooded streets and fields of the latest high-water event, either to rescue those still stranded…

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Seasickness While Kayaking

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on
 March 27, 2015
  · 3 Comments

Preventing the onset of seasickness, or coping with it once it rears its ugly head at you or others in your party, can be a matter of life and death. “A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.” Spike Milligan Any paddler who has suffered the green-gilled demon of seasickness, with the dizziness, nausea, excessive salivation (or…

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Product Review: PaddleCam by Edgewater Innovation

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on
 December 29, 2014
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The PaddleCam mounts your waterproof camera to your kayak paddle for easy access SPECIFICATIONS Product Dimensions: 3 x 3.25 x 1.5” (76 x 83 x 38mm) Weight 1.4 oz (40g) Durable Nylon Construction Quick-release camera foot Stainless-steel hardware Available to fit either standard round paddle shafts or bent shafts Choice of six high-visibility colors Also available to fit GoPro or…

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Safe Cold-Water Kayaking

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on
 January 18, 2014
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Paddling a semi-frozen lake or river can be an exhilarating way to experience your local waters in a whole new light. “One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.” Alec Wilkinson When you love being…

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A Kayak Repair Kit

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on
 May 16, 2013
  · 2 Comments

How to assemble and use your own kit for making field repairs to your kayak and other camping gear “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and…

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Video: Hurricane Sandy on Lake Michigan, Milwaukee lakefront

Posted by Jeffrey Lee on
 February 9, 2013
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As Hurricane Sandy devastated the American Northeast during late October 2012, the storm became the largest-diameter Atlantic hurricane on record, and its effects were felt as far away as the upper Great Lakes. Shipping traffic was slowed as some vessels sought shelter, and gale warnings were issued for Lake Michigan, while waves of 20 feet swept down the open waters….

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