View topic - Looking for the book about poling a canoe

Years ago someone presented on this at the Symposium and I got his book at my library.

I can’t recall any other details but a local wants to get into it so I hoped I could track down the author or the book.

One of Harry Rock's books? I think there are two, both with "Canoe Poling" in the name

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Thanks

Jonny, not a book but ...if you haven't already looked, there are loads of useful videos on poling on Youtube.

The one by Adam Shoalts will get you started - if you haven't looked at them all already...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1i57bCmpF4

And here are more to look at - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... noe+poling

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Also perhaps "Beyond the Paddle" by Garrett Conover. It looks at both poling and "ice" techniques from perhaps a more traditional perspective than Harry Rock.

-jmc

Ifyou want coaching I know of a guy in Maine who used to do that and maybe still at it.

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Thats gonna be tough. I can't see border agents accepting poling class as a reason to cross the border!

I will just post this list of useful links and suggest that Kevin Silliker in NB be the most appropriate to contact.
https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~burchil/pm_canoe/poling

There are many Maine Guides who can teach canoe poling but at the Maine Canoe Symposium Kevins and Rorys and Lisa and Harry Rocks classes were all full.

If you’re looking for some local (as in southern Ontario) support for Poling. Stephen Coutts has been offering courses for a number of years now.

This was the first video that came up when I search for him in YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0bQQOElpx8

"Thats gonna be tough. I can't see border agents accepting poling class as a reason to cross the border!"

Yeah, there is that 'minor obstacle"

Maybe he can float down the Allagash!

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Old canoeists never die---they just smell that way.