Pakboat Users
Posts from Pakboat customers about their canoe and kayak adventures.
Paddling the North Saskatchewan River
In Canada, a country known for it’s numerous rivers and waterways, the North Saskatchewan river stands out as a premier route. It runs for more than 1200 km (750 miles) from the Rocky Mountains eastward across the prairies to it’s joining with the South Saskatchewan river.
Nature Conservancy Thelon Expedition
We sometimes get involved in a really neat project, and this is one of them. Having 6 local youth from the Great Slave Lake area reconnect with nature in our folding canoes was a real thrill. Here is the first contact I received – and at the bottom is a link to the blog from […]
PakPod on an open Canoe
This summer I canoed in the Lapland area of Norway and Finland where we ran two shallow and rocky rivers with lots of rapids – including a mile-long rapid that dropped 60 feet! One challenge in preparing for the trip was to figure out a way to keep my new SLR camera safe, yet easy […]
Hamlet’s Ghost and a Puffin
Bill Longyard has made some unusual trips with his Puffin, like his adventure on the mud flats at the mouth of the Thames River that is included in this collection of Puffin stories. Here is another: Hamlet’s Ghost Beckons In the summer of 2009 I set out to do something I had wanted to do […]
My Summer Trip – with a Twist
I am leaving in a few days for a whole month in North Norway and Finland. The main feature of our trip is to canoe 3 rivers. Three guys in 15 ft solo PakCanoes – and one in a 14-footer that I saved for my own use when we stopped making the 140. We will […]
Canoe Tripping in Poland
By Brian and Diana Svelnis After much research and map gazing we decided to paddle 850 km across Poland by canoe during the summer of 2010.
Bird Adventure in Maine
Again, Pakboat kayaks proved worthy and convenient on our Bar Harbor, Maine trip. Imagine carrying 2 kayaks, 2 bicycles, plus our bags within the confines of a Ford Escort.
Quoich and Lunan Rivers, Nunavut, Canada
July 11-24, 2009: To the best of our knowledge we were the first canoe trip on the Lunan Branch of the Quoich. We could find no pre information on the river and as such were running with topo maps only, no river notes.
To Australia with a Puffin
I was attending a meeting in the beautiful city of Sydney, so decided to bring along my Puffin Sport kayak.
Paddling off Vancouver Island
We had fun running with tidal currents in places like “hole in the Wall” and “Surge Narrows”… similar to class II river rapids, but with boils, whirlpools and eddies instead of Haystacks and pillows.