|
LIVING LIBRARY
Canoeing Training Books from myfoodcount.com
Canoeing is the activity of paddling a canoe or kayak for the purpose of recreation, sport, or transportation. It usually refers exclusively to using a paddle to propel a canoe or kayak with only human muscle power. A kayak is propelled using a paddle with two blades where the paddler sits with their legs infront of them, whereas canoes are propelled using single- or double-bladed paddles where the paddler is kneeling or sitting on a raised seat. Kayaks are usually closed-decked boats with a spraydeck, while canoes are usually open boats. There are also open kayaks and closed canoes. Although somewhat confusing, the term canoeing is generally used as a generic term for both forms, though the term "paddle sports" is also used. In the United States and Canada, however, 'canoeing' usually refers only to canoes, as opposed to both canoes and kayaks. Paddling a kayak is also referred to as kayaking.
Open canoes may be 'poled' (punted), sailed, 'lined and tracked' (using ropes)or even 'gunnel-bobbed'.
| . |
Testimonials and Descriptions |
|
Canoeing & Camping Beyond the Basics, 2nd (Canoeing how-to)
by Cliff Jacobson
Includes all-important skills that will make your canoeing excursions safe and enjoyable, whether you paddle on millponds, lazy rivers, wilderness lakes, or the open ocean.
Before you head out on an overnight canoe camping trip, or before you lead a day trip into the wilderness, be sure your skills go beyond the basics. Wilderness canoeing and camping require specialized techniques not ordinarily required in other outdoor recreation sports. Canoeing and Camping: Beyond the Basics shows you the all-important skills that will make your canoeing excursions safe and enjoyable, whether you paddle on millponds, lazy rivers, wilderness lakes, or the open ocean. Canoeing expert Cliff Jacobson reveals how you can: select the equipment that's right for you and customize your canoe and gear for better performance; master key canoeing skills, from paddling portaging, and transporting your canoe, to avoiding common hazards and rescuing and repairing your canoe; apply your canoeing skills when solo canoeing, leading day trips, canoeing with children and pets, or navigating through wilderness; polish your camping skills: learn to fix quick and tasty meals; weather storms; avoid bears, bugs, and other bothersome pests; and plan canoe expeditions. (71/2 x 9,176 pages, color photos, b& w illustrations, color illustrations)
Cliff Jacobson is one of North America's most respected outdoors writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is a professional outfitter for the Science Museum of Minnesota, a canoeing consultant, and the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on camping and canoeing. Cliff lives in River Falls, Wisconsin.
|
|
Basic Essentials Solo Canoeing, 2nd (Basic Essentials Series)
by Cliff Jacobson
An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran. Distills years of knowledge in an affordable and portable book.
For a generation the Basic Essentials series has been as much a part of the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran, these volumes distill years of knowledge into affordable and portable books. Whether you're planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, Basic Essentials books tell you what you need to know. Discover how to choose the right type of solo canoe, customize your solo canoe for peak performance, perform various braces and ferry strokes, pack and portage for camping expeditions and maintain and repair your solo canoe.
Cliff Jacobson has been a popular writer of canoeing and camping topics for more than a decade. He began with tandem canoeing and discovered a more rewarding joy in his solo canoe.
|
|
Building Your Kevlar Canoe: A Foolproof Method and Three Foolproof Designs
by James Moran
Kevlar is a strong (40% stronger than fiberglass) material, perfect for building light-weight (35 pounds for a 17-foot canoe), fast, maintenance-free canoes. The only problem with Kevlar canoes is their cost--$2,000 or more. With this book, the most inexperienced home builder can turn out a handsome canoe for an investment of about $600 and a few weekends. The principal tools needed are a sharp pair of scissors and a $5 hand plane--and the method is astonishingly easy and forgiving. Featured are designs for a stable family canoe, a solo canoe, and a wilderness tripper, any of which can be built right from this book.
As any canoe enthusiast knows, Kevlar is the perfect hull material for building strong, light (35 pounds for a 17-footer), fast, maintenance-free canoes. Far superior to fiberglass, Kevlar--literally bulletproof and virtually indestructible--has one drawback: It's expensive. A factory-built Kevlar canoe can easily sell for $2,000 or more.
Here's a low-tech method for building high-tech canoes from Kevlar. With this book, the most inexperienced home builder can turn out a handsome canoe for an investment of about $600 and a few weekends. The building method centers on the foam sheathing used in home insulation, drywall compound, a $5 hand plane, and a sharp pair of scissors. Boatbuilding doesn't come any easier than this.
Ingenious, simple, and inexpensive.
Here is all you need to know to build a light, strong, maintenance-free Kevlar canoe in your backyard or basement--without an elaborate tool collection or years of boatbuilding experience.
- A Tripper for Extended Wilderness Journeys
- A Stable Family Canoe
- A Swift Solo Canoe
James Moran has been building canoes for more than 20 years. Searching for an easier way to build these boats, he hit upon this amazingly simple method in 1986 and has tested it on a squadron of novice builders, all of whom came away with excellent canoes. When not at his workbench, the Eyota, Minnesota, resident is likely out paddling.
|
|
Boundary Waters Canoe Camping, 2nd Edition
by Cliff Jacobson
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), located in northeastern Minnesota, is a legendary wilderness destination for canoeists from around the world. Longtime guide and canoe authority Cliff Jacobson explains the best and safest ways of planning and enjoying a BWCA journey. Includes maps, illustrations, and information on obtaining permits, packing the right supplies, practicing low-impact camping techniques, honing paddling skills, traveling with children, and dealing with hazards on land and water.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) is a legendary wilderness destination for canoeists from around the world. Located in northeastern Minnesota just south of the Ontario border, the Boundary Waters offers paddlers a thousand pristine lakes and streams and more than a million acres of solitude and wild beauty. Boundary Waters Canoe Camping is your seasoned guide to a BWCA experience, whether you're canoeing and camping here for the first time or returning for an extended voyage through this paddler's paradise. Canoeing authority Cliff Jacobson explains the best and safest ways of planning and enjoying a BWCA journey. Learn about obtaining permits, packing the right supplies, and practicing low-impact camping techniques to polishing your paddling skills, traveling with children, and knowing how to deal with hazards (on land or water) when you are deep in the wilderness. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 192 pages, b&w illustrations, maps)
Cliff Jacobson is one of North America's most respected outdoor writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is a professional outfitter for the Science Museum of Minnesota, a canoeing consultant, and the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on camping and canoeing. He teaches environmental science and resides in River Falls, Wisconsin.
|
|
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
by John McPhee
“A lively chronicle, rich in character study and observations.”—The Wall Street Journal
In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966), Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1968), A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1969), The Crofter and the Laird (1969), Levels of the Game (1970), Encounters with the Archdruid (1972), The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973), The Curve of Binding Energy (1974), Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975), and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975). Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
|
|
|
|
Introduction to Paddling: Canoeing Basics for Lakes and Rivers
by American Canoe Association
This amply illustrated book tells beginning paddlers everything they need to know, from appropriate clothing to the parts of the boat, from correct strokes to proper safety concerns.
Written by the American Canoe Association and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Introduction to Paddling is an easy-to-understand guide to flatwater and river paddling. Based on an earlier work by the Ohio DNR, Flat-water Paddler, this amply illustrated book tells beginning paddlers everything they need to know, from appropriate clothing to the parts of the boat, from correct strokes to proper safety concerns. Good for instructors and those who like to teach themselves, this book is an important resource for those who like to paddle or want to start. (8 1/2 x 11, 32 pages, diagrams)
|
|
The Canoe Shop: Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build
by Chris Kulczycki
A lavishly illustrated, user-friendly guide for novices and experienced boat builders alike, The Canoe Shop provides plans and building instructions for three graceful and rugged touring canoes-;a 12-foot double-paddle canoe, a 14-foot solo canoe, and a 16-foot tandem boat-;that virtually anyone can build directly from the book. Following the same critically acclaimed format found in his classic, The New Kayak Shop, leading North American boat designer Chris Kulczycki walks readers through the entire building process for each boat. One standout feature of The Canoe Shop is a revolutionary, simplified approach to lapstrake construction which makes this traditional technique-;considered by many to be the finest method of wooden boat construction-;available to amateurs for the first time.- Features three original designs from one of the most respected small-boat designers- Contains dozens of illustrations and step-by-step building instructions
The Canoe Shop arms you with complete plans and step-by-step instructions for building three graceful and rugged touring canoes, including a 12-foot double-paddle canoe, a 14-foot solo, and a 16-foot tandem. You needn't be an experienced boatbuilder to get the most out of this book. All that's required are a few common tools and the most basic woodworking skills. The secret is Chris Kulczycki's original LapStitch approach, which combines traditional lapstrake boatbuilding with the simplicity and ease of modern stitch-and-glue construction. With the help of 170 photos and illustrations, Chris walks you through the entire process for all three designs--from reading the plans to painting or varnishing your new canoe.
Praise for The Kayak Shop
"Recommended reading for anyone contemplating going paddling in a kayak of their own creation."--Sea Kayaker
"This is a very useful book, clearly written, well illustrated, fully explanatory. . . . You will be sold on building your own wood kayak."--Atlantic Coastal Kayaker
For 13 years Chris Kulczycki has been a successful designer of wooden kayaks and kayak kits, and the owner of Chesapeake Light Craft, Inc., a business that offers wooden boat, kits, plans, and boatbuilding supplies. Earlier this year he sold Chesapeake Light Craft to a group of investors. In addition to The Kayak Shop and The New Kayak Shop, he has written for SAIL, Sea Kayaker, Cruising World, Ocean Navigator, and Fine Woodworking magazines. In his writing he draws on his many years of experience as an instructor at the WoodenBoat School to anticipate and solve the problems faced by the novice boatbuilder.
|
|
Path of the Paddle
by Bill Mason, Paul Mason
Originally published in Canada in 1980, this is available in the United States for the first time. The author (now deceased) covers both single and double paddling on flat water as well as white water. Since books on canoeing are limited, this may be a well-used addition to sports/recreation collections.
The Globe and Mail "The best book yet on how to canoe"
Paddler's News Bulletin "Besides its outstanding instructional value, this volume is entertaining and an artistic delight."
Canadian Camping "The ultimate book for the canoeist of every level of ability"
|
|
The Ultimate Canoe Challenge : 28,000 Miles Through North America
by Brand Frentz, Verlen Kruger
Verlen Kruger and Steve Landick came up with the idea of a canoe trip that would surpass all others, and they did it. Paddling their canoes or carrying them on the connecting land passages, they toured North America, from Montana to Manhattan, from New Orleans to the Arctic Ocean, from Baja California to home in Lansing, Michigan.
They mastered wild storms on the ocean, often paddled 75-100 miles or more in a day, shot through deadly rapids going downstream, and paddled up several major rivers, reaching the climax by going up the Grand Canyon. Again and again they were warned, "It can't be done" or "You'll never make it", but each time they rose to the challenge and kept going, finally completing a canoe trip of 28,000 miles that lasted three and a half years and was appropriately named The Ultimate Canoe Challenge. This is the story as Verlen lived it.
|
|
Canoeist's Q & A : Questions and Answers How-To Books Can't Address (Canoeing how-to)
by Cliff Jacobson
unique approach to teaching canoeing skills, this book describes 25 actual incidents that occurred on canoe trips--from life-threatening health emergencies to inclement weather, poor canoeing practices to ethical dilemmas. Each scenario poses a problem that the reader is invited to solve. The solutions aren't obvious, and each incident will help the reader analyze and deal with real-life problems encountered on canoe trips.
Twenty-five true life scenarios probe the concerns that are part of every canoe trip--from quiet local streams to the Boundary Waters and beyond. Some scenarios describe life-threatening situations; others detail inefficient canoeing and camping practices or philosophical or health concerns. All pose a serious problem which you must solve! The solutions aren¦t obvious, and often, there is more than one right answer. Give each problem your best shot then read the ACTION TAKEN scene which tells exactly what happened. Then, see the PROBABLE BESTCOURSE OF ACTION, which suggests a reasonable plan. Have fun discussing options as you try to beat the experts who, you¦ll discover, don¦t always make the right decisions. Be aware of the consequences of a wrong choice and the difficulty of putting things right after the fact. Interspersed among the life-threatening scenarios are in-depth answers to the most frequently asked questions about canoeing and canoe camping.
|
|
The Nuts 'N' Bolts Guide to the American Canoe Association's Knots for Paddlers (Nuts 'n' Bolts Guide)
by Charlie Walbridge
Have you ever arrived at the put-in late because you had to keep pulling off the side of the road to re-tie your boats? Or perhaps you have been at the side of the river, with your canoe jammed against a log, sinking fast, and that granny knot just wasn't doing the trick?
For the paddler, this book teaches eighteen knots and their uses on and off the river. From the simple figure eight to the reliable fisherman's knot, these knots will help keep you out of trouble.
|
|
Basic Canoeing: All the Skills You Need to Get Started (Basic How-to Guides)
by Jon Rounds (Editor)
This illustrated guide on the essential skills of canoeing should be required reading for anyone getting into the sport. A section on the mechanics of good paddling is followed by a catalog of the most important strokes, each illustrated in sequential photos, with concise text on the key points. Essential river maneuvers--eddy turns, peel-outs, and ferries--are demonstrated by the Olympic paddling team of Wayne Dickert and Horace Holden, Jr.
Wayne Dickert is the head of instruction at Nantahala Outdoor Center in North Carolina. He was a member of the 1996 US Olympic Canoe and Kayak Team and a 10-time qualifier for the US Canoe and Kayak National Team.
|
|
Advanced Kayaking and Canoeing
by Bill Mattos
This is a book for intermediate, proficient paddlers who wish to develop their skills to an advanced level. The book looks at increasingly difficult types of paddling: the fast and furious sport of white water and the sea,and extreme paddling,which refers to specialist discipline such as playing paddling, surking, and the competition scene.
|
|
Kayaking & Canoeing for Beginners
by Bill Mattos
This is a book for beginners going out on the water for the first time. It includes practical advice on where and when to paddle, clothing and equipment needed for safety and comfort, and how to prepare the body with fitness training.
|
|
Canoeing: A Beginner's Guide to the Kayak
by Nigel Foster
|
Did not find what you where looking for?
|
