Paddling is very different. Usually two people paddle a canoe and one paddles a kayak, but you can also paddle a raft. Maybe you’ve seen a bunch of people, each with a paddle, in a raft. Each person ...

Dale Kicker's idea of building a better, more durable canoe paddle started with high hopes in a lowly two-car garage in North St. Paul in 1982. His angle: Add a piece of nearly indestructible urethane ...

Marvin Fournier launched two canoes off a city park boat dock on a recent December afternoon, as he has done countless times for over a decade. The vessels were decked out in twinkling Christmas ...