The Plastiki is probably much nicer looking than you expected it to look when you first heard that it was made from garbage, which could have been as little as 5 seconds ago when you read the title of this blog post. Well, actually it’s made from recycled plastic, which after processing is not as [...]

Alison Sigethy: Making Waves: Something old, something new. Alison Sigethy is an artist and kayaking instructor. The blog is a little bit unusual – someone else seems to have written many of the posts for Alison based on phone calls and messages from her, wherever in the world she is at the time. Sounds like [...]

Bubble Street Archives. I haven’t seen too many kayak-related comics (aside from the ubiquitous xkcd time-traveling kayak), and even fewer comics about canoes. Combine them together, add a little of the natural good-natured rivalry between canoeists and kayakers, and you get Bubble Street. Also add a fish who throws in comments here and there. I [...]

Paul Mason – Animated Canoe Strokes. Paul Mason is a cartoonist and canoeist (a carnoeist?) who also designs christmas tree ornaments, logos, or just about any type of graphic illustration. Yesterday’s post about animated kayaking strokes seems so dead serious compared to Paul’s animated GIFs of canoe strokes.

Water Bottle Kayak with Outrigger. Instructables member “1337 2.0″ has demonstrated his 1337ness by building this kayak from water bottles. Not only is it environmentally friendly to recycle, but this kayak could potentially save your life if you were, by chance, stranded on an deserted island where water bottles and chicken wire were constantly washing [...]

“Exploring the limits of human power” is as appropriate a phrase as any describing Greg Kolodziejzyk. And by “human power”, I mean “human insanity”. Greg is planning to pedal from Canada to Hawaii, over 3,000 miles. Greg’s boat “WiTHiN” is a feat in itself, and there is a nice Picasa album of the development and [...]

Decavitator The Decavitator is an old MIT project from the late 80′s and early 90′s. The goal of the project was to build the fastest human powered watercraft in history. The team was pursuing the $25k DuPont prize, which they won in 1993. The Decavitator avoids the problem of propeller cavitation that affects other boats [...]