Backcountry Custom Canoes, an upstart Ontario manufacturer pushes the limits of lightweight canoe and kayak construction. In 2015, Jon Babulic had the opportunity to leave a successful career in ...

NORTH ELBA, N.Y. – Oncoming hikers stepped off the trail and made way for two canoes being hauled up to Avalanche Lake. It looked hard-core, or crazy, shouldering the boats 4.4 miles into the ...

As boats go they often are overlooked, or at least have been in recent years, as evidenced by the ebb and flow of consumer wants and demands. But perhaps that is changing. Solo canoes and more ...

Canoe/kayak hybrids generally please almost no one. Not because of what they are, but because of what they are not. Not a canoe. Not a kayak. But a cross-pollination sprinkled with features from each ...

A large trailer was maneuvered into the snowy parking lot of Bell Canoe Works recently, and workers on ladders carefully loaded sleek, new canoes in rows five high and three deep. Ensconced in cotton ...

NORTH ELBA, N.Y. — Oncoming hikers stepped off the trail and made way for two canoes being hauled up to Avalanche Lake. It looked hard-core, or crazy, shouldering the boats 4.4 miles into the ...