Don Buckingham, 59, is a teaching principal in Sedgwick, Maine, a sleepy coastal town tucked into ... as high points in my canoe travels. Using the 20-foot Tripper XL, I've also made several ...

Canoes have become ever lighter due to Kevlar and carbon, but Gordon Hommes will stick with Royalex. His beloved Old Town Tripper has served him well since 1985. Hommes tutors high school math and ...

We are part of The Trust Project. Deep dusk had settled over the valley of Wisconsin's Brule River. Phyllis and I had put our aging Old Town Tripper canoe in the river 10 miles upstream, at Stone ...