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Making a beavertail canoe paddle
Dennis made a beautiful beavertail canoe paddle during a workshop. We started at 10 o'clock with a board of ash and 5 hours of cutting, milling, shaving and sanding later [...]
Building a wooden canoe
An expedition canoe for Peter We've started building a wooden canoe for Peter. Peter has been canoeing and kayaking for forty years now. He started with his parents when he [...]
Making a Greenland Paddle
Workshop - Making a Greenland Paddle Making a Greenland paddle by yourself? It's possible during a workshop at Freeranger Canoe. Sea kayaker Tom joined us last week to carve his [...]
Building a stitch and glue canoe
Building a stitch and glue canoe with Wouter Wouter has been dreaming for along time of building his own canoe. The next few weeks we realize that dream with him. [...]
Making your own laminated wooden canoe paddle
Making your own laminated wooden canoe paddle Our paddling friend Herman made a laminated wooden canoe paddle during a two day building course. He decided to make a classic beavertal [...]
Canoeing on the Dommel
To prove that you don’t have to drive hundreds of kilometers for beautiful canoe trips, we decided to paddle the entire navigable part of the Dommel. That stretch is ± [...]
Building an Abenaki river canoe
Building a canoe with Dries With Dries we've started building a canoe. Dries is a carpenter and takes a workshop canoe building with us. In consultation he chose to build an Abenaki [...]
Canoeing the Ruhr River
Canoeing the Ruhr River A couple of weeks ago; Our plans to paddle the Sieg River were aborted because the water levels were far too low. We decided to make [...]
A wood strip canoe in need of revivification
Building a wood strip canoe One fine day Johannes showed up at the door of our shop with a half-built wood strip canoe. He had acquired it for a dime and needed expert [...]
Canoeing in Overijssel – the Regge River
Canoeing in Overijssel (NL) - Paddling the Regge and Linderbeek For our first trip of 2017 we went canoeing in Overijssel, a province in the central-eastern part of the Netherlands. [...]
Workshop Greenland paddle
During Kayak Madness at the Kanoshop in Bergschenhoek near Rotterdam we gave a workshop Greenland paddle for two enthusiastic participants. They shaped their own Greenland paddle out of a board [...]
Hiking in Morocco – the Jebel Sirwa
Hiking in Morocco - the Jebel Sirwa Jbel Sirwa lies in between the High Atlas and the Anti Atlas Mountain Ranges. It is an extinct volcano surrounded by massive gorges [...]
Hiking in the Alps – the Wilder Kaiser
Hiking in the Alps - the Elmauer Tor The climb to the Ellmauer Tor is an absolute classic in the Wilder Kaiser, or the Kaiser Mountains in Tirol. The beautiful [...]
Choosing a canoe
Choosing a canoe, what to look at? Choosing a canoe can be mystifying. Yet it’s important to understand the basics because the design of a canoe has a direct effect on how the [...]
Hiking in the Vosges Mountains
Hiking in the Vosges Mountains - the Sentier des Roches If you go hiking in the Vosges Mountains the Sentier des Roches is one of the absolute top trails. It’s [...]
The birth of a wooden Malecite canoe
Building the Malecite canoe This is a short film about the construction of our Malecite canoe. Emiel and Bart built this canoe in 3 months during 2015. It's the first [...]12