When I first joined a summer canoe trip with 11 other paddlers crammed into a 20-foot war canoe, I realized group paddling is a totally different sport than solo tripping. The synchronized stroke, the coxswain calling cadence from the stern, the way a 17-foot canoe feels alive under six paddlers working in concert. Our team […]

Last August, I spent six hours on a sit-on-top kayak fishing the flats off Sarasota. The air was 94 degrees, the water was 88, and by hour three my core temp had climbed enough that I started making bad casts. I had packed a regular microfiber towel. It did nothing. The next trip out, I […]