Canoeing for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Selecting the Gear, Learning the Strokes, and Planning Your Trip

Make it easy!

A canoe, a paddle, a body of water – it’s nice to think that’s all it takes.  Whether for fishing, nature watching, a wilderness adventure, or just a bit of exercise, canoeing is in fact a simple pleasure only after you’ve acquired the knowledge to make it so.  Enter Knack Canoeing for Everyone, the first idea-packed, picture-driven guide to present, step by step, all the tools you need to make sense of the mind-boggling array of canoes and gear on the market.  And you’ll find out how best to use this equipment – on ponds, lakes, rivers, or oceans.  This essential resource also offers a whole host of recreational ideas, including day, weekend, and expedition-level trips.

-          450 full-color photos

-          Tips on selecting a canoe

-          Tips on transporting a canoe

-          How to get the right paddle

-          How to get the right PDF (aka life vest)

-          Tips on launching and landing

-          Basic strokes

-          Portaging safety

-          First Aid

Authored by Daniel A. Gray who first learned to canoe thirty years ago in the Boy Scouts.  As a high school teacher he led groups on canoe trips to the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota, and an Urban Adventures Coordinator he has led hundreds of participants on trips on the Milwaukee River.  Gray helped develop the Milwaukee Urban Water Trail.  He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Photography by Stephen Gorman who is a photographer and writer whose photo-essay books include Northeastern Wilds and The American Wilderness.  His work has also appeared in Knack Car Camping, as well as numerous national magazines, including Outside and Audubon.  He lives in Norwhich, Vermont.