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Playak Weekly Digest - week 29, 2024
Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling news in week 29, 2024.
Message of the Day
Retiring News Flash and Weekly Digest mails in August 2024
I developed the News Watch service and the News Flash mailings back in 2004, when social media hardly existed, people actually browsed the web on desktop computers, and e-mail was the most relevant service for personal communication. These days people spend more time on social media than websites, and use apps on phones and tablets to do so. In personal communication, messengers (X, Facebook, Signal, Whatsapp, Discord, Telegram, …) have become much more important than e-mail for most people. Since 2004, I have used homemade robots to gather paddling news, and from that flood of news I hand-picked the most relevant headlines 365 days per year. In the past 15 years I’ve paid several assistants for this daily work. I’ve found it hard to stop this service, as so much love and sweat went into building and maintaining it, but now the time has come to recognize that it is just not worth it anymore. The above is how I assess the situation. If you see it differently, please let me know. I hope you have enjoyed these services during the past 20 years. Cheers, Jeroen
American Rivers A Tiny Critter That HAs a Lot to Say About Our Rivers
American Rivers - While many are familiar with the fish and wildlife that define our landscapes there are other lesser-known critters that play a role in creating and maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
Trash Paddler Coasting Fort to Fort
Trash Paddler - As tempting as Children's Island looked in Tuesday morning's sparkling sunshine I continued hugging the coast of Marblehead and pulled into a serene Dolliber Cove where little Crowninshield Island offered an ideal spot to land.
Canoe Guy BC How to Make Pocketed Inwales for a Double Gunwale Canoe
Canoe Guy BC - In the early days of wood-canvas canoe construction (late 1800’s until about 1906), builders (primarily in up-state New York and Maine) tried to emulate the birch bark canoes in the region. Like birch bark canoes, they constructed their hulls with cedar ribs and planks. They also emulated the look of the gunwales. The inwales and outwales of birch bark canoes are lashed together and the rib-tops are whittled to wedges which are forced up between the inwales and outwales.
Outdoor Industry Association 2024 Outdoor Participation Trends Report
Outdoor Industry Association - Outdoor participation grew 4.1% to a record 175.8 million participants: 57.3% of all Americans aged six and older. The post 2024 Outdoor Participation Trends Report appeared first on Outdoor Industry Association.
PaddlingLight Outdoor Sports Rescue Shaming
PaddlingLight - One of the issues that I’ve seen in outdoor sports and one that bothers me is rescue shaming. That is the tendency of people to make fun of someone who almost dies while doing an outdoor sport.
ICF All Canoe Slalom Quotas Allocated for Paris 2024
ICF - The International Canoe Federation can today confirm that all the Canoe Slalom quotas have been allocated for the Olympic Games in Paris.
PaddlingLight Paddle On, Dan Cooke
PaddlingLight - I just heard that news that Dan Cooke passed away last night. He took the final portage that we can all take when we leave this earthly world.
TotalSUP MOAI, Dutch SUP Brand Inspired by Polynesian Explorers: Interview With the Founder, Pleuni Holthausen
TotalSUP - Inspired by the intrepid spirit of Polynesian explorers who traversed vast oceans using nothing but the elements as their guide, MOAI, a family-owned, Dutch watersport brand, pays homage to these adventurers through its designs.
PaddlingLight Lake Superior Circumnavigation Speed Records
PaddlingLight - Recently, someone who had circumnavigated Lake Superior by sea kayak claimed to be the fastest person who had done it. He was incorrect, and likely was incorrect because an internet search didn’t easily pull up other people’s Lake Superior circumnavigation speed records.
Paddling Magazine Navigating the Rising Costs of Wilderness Rescue
Paddling Magazine - Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since I first apprenticed as a sea kayak instructor with Bruce Lash, a spunky firefighter who was among the first North Americans to earn the British Canoe Union’s vaunted 5-Star Sea award, which is regarded as the most rigorous sea kayak training in the world.
Paddling Life American Rivers’ Most Endangered Rivers of 2024: New Mexico Tops List
Paddling Life - In its 39th year of putting out the nation’s most endangered rivers list, conservation group American Rivers again calls attention to the most imperiled rivers in the U.S., with waterways in New Mexico topping this year’s compilation.
Angling International Railblaza Enters New Category With Environmentally-Friendly Gear Hub
Angling International - Railblaza, the New Zealand based supplier of mounting systems, has entered the storage crate market with the Gear Hub.
SUP World Mag Maui to Molokai to Oahu on Hydrofoil
SUP World Mag - For months, Jack Ho has been dreaming of connecting Maui, Molokai, and Oahu on a hydrofoil—unassisted. While he’s raced these channels before with an escort boat, this time, Jack and Hobey Moss are taking on the challenge solo.
Traversing R.I.P. Dan Cooke of Cooke Custom Sewing
Traversing - Dan Cooke from Cooke Custom Sewing has passed away sadly.
SUP Tonic Wing Foiling Harness or No Harness?
SUP Tonic - In this video, Robby Naish discusses and demonstrates the proper usage of a harness when winging. The post Wing Foiling. Harness or No Harness? first appeared on Tonic Mag.
Athletes with top online media coverage in July
1. Robert Machacek
2. Aniol Serrasolses
3. Drew Gregory
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