Leaf River, Northern Quebec  2001 By Willem Lange If you are a logistician, you’ll be interested to know that eight guys and all their gear, a driver, and four PakBoats will fit into a 15-passenger van – just barely! Our driver dropped us off at Dorval before dawn on Day 1, and we were at […]

BOAT REPORT FROM ALAN KESSELHEIM PakCanoes are great even for close-to-home journeys. Last summer I took my oldest son (10) on a trip to Yellowstone Park with some friends. We used the PakCanoe 160 with spraycover. The first advantage was that it allowed us to carpool because we didn’t have a boat that required space […]

PADDLING IN LONDON Last week when I went to England I was paddling the river Thames through the heart of London in my Pakboats Puffin. Just before passing under Tower Bridge heading upstream a seagull buzzed right by my head. In its beak was a 30″ eel. I’d heard eels were coming back to London […]

Hi AlvJust wanted to tell you about a recent two-day paddle up the Gudenaa River in the middle of Jutland, Denmark. Denmark has an enormous amount of coastline in proportion to the land area, but few rivers. The Gudenaa, not even rated as a river in Denmark, starts at Tørring and runs into the Randersfjord. […]

Paddling the Green River, Utah Dear Linda & all, Just thought I’d let you know how delighted I am with the Puffin. I just had time for a couple short paddles in a nearby lagoon before heading off to Utah. Managed to stuff me plus 10 days supplies in the little boat. (Had to make […]

Penobscot Bay, Maine  (2002) Hi Alv, Just wanted to update you on my Puffin. I’ve recently moved to Maine, so took the Puffin out into Penobscot Bay at the end of October on the day after a storm. The Puffin was such fun to paddle in the remaining swells and the wind driven waves. It […]

Venice, Italy   2001 The Perfect Boatby Gino Thomas-Solimando Non-kayakers are always amazed to hear that I own six kayaks. To the uninitiated, one kayak seems like plenty. Yet, if you think of kayaks the way a golfer thinks of clubs, it’s easy to see that different circumstances require different tools. So nothing less than the […]

Puffin in Euro Travels, Folding Kayaker by Bill Longyard (2000) PROVING THE PUFFIN IN EURO TRAVELS by Bill Longyard (Reprinted by permission from Folding Kayaker) William Stout, one of America’s greatest engineers, once said, “Simplicate- add lightness,” so when I learned that someone was making a kayak that weighed less than half of what other […]

Touring US and Canada with the Puffin   May 1999 Hi Alv, I finally got a chance to take out your boat. I compared it with an inflatable one in the same price range. I have to say, I was impressed how much better the tracking was with the Puffin.

Folding Canoes, Alan Kesselheim (2001)   One of the biggest hassles on longer expeditions is transporting the silly canoe. Here’s this 17-foot, 70-pound rigid monstrosity that has to perch on top of your car,get strapped onto plane floats, fit inside a freight car, whatever. It’s like taking the piano along.