Canoe Links

Canoe instruction in Belgium with CanoeAdventure
Kris Van Autenboer delivers canoe instruction in Belgium or other parts of Europe. He has test canoes from Esquif and Indian Canoe so you can try several different canoe types.
ACA canoe instruction with Heinz Götze
Heinz Götze is American Canoe Association certified Instructor Trainer. He's offering courses in Germany and the rest of Europe.
Canoe instruction at Canadierkurs
Armin Burzlauer is also a certified ACA Instructor Trainer, offering courses in the Nurenberg Area in Germany and in the Alps.
Canoe instruction in the Vorderrhein valley
Kanuschule is offering canoe courses at one of the most beautifull paddling valleys of Europe: The Vorderrhein in Versam. James Weir is teaching most of the Whitewater Canoeing courses.
Canoe playboating with Kelvin Horner
Kelvin offers canoe courses with a fresh insight throughout Europe. He's not only based in the UK, but also paddles in the Alps. Kelvin is a BCU coach and offers courses in OC, C1 and kayak.
Learning how to canoe with Thomas Gahlen
Thomas is providing canoe instruction in the Northern part of Germany, according ACA standards

River Information

Water levels

4-paddlers
Online water levels in the Alps and some rivers in surrounding countries

Kajaktour
A very nice website with maps and levels of difficulties of the rivers in the Alps.

4-paddlers
Together with the river descriptions and the water levels a very infromative website on alpine rivers.

James Weir
James is a well know paddler, based in Versam, Switzerland. He paddles mainly throughout Europe but ventures to other continents as well. On his blog you can read about his canoe outfitting tips and of course his paddling trips.

Eli Herbert
Eli came to join 2011's C-boater Armada, bringing an American paddler to join the party. His website is offering info on his courses and on his paddling trips.

Kris Van Autenboer
Kris is one of our regular paddling friends from Belgium, one of the happy few good whitewater paddlers.

Bushpaddler: Florian and Martina
Florian and Martina from Bushpaddler are out there quite a lot, having a blast in their Esquif Blast. I think they are about the bast tandem team I've seen on the river.

C Boats
A very friendly c-boater comunity providing a platform to talk about canoes, C1's, paddles technique and much more.
Wildwasserboard
The forum behind riverrunner.de. The gathering of German speaking whitewater canoe and kayak paddlers.
Eaux Vives France
A French canoe and kayak community website. They do provide an Open Canoe whitewater section.
Kanoforum
A Dutch forum about canoeing and kayaking. Not so many canoeist out there, but interesting community, especially for those paddling in the Belgian Ardens and German Eiffel.
Song of the paddle
A canoeing community mostly based in the UK, even though it has plenty of members from other countries. A good part of it is about paddling traditional canoes.
UK rivers guidebook
This paddling community is also mostly based in the UK. Next to the forum they provide plenty of usefull information for canoeist and kayakers.
Kanolife
A Dutch website for the canoeist and kayaker who's interested in touring on lakes and rivers.

Playak
An information filled website with news, blogs and much more about whitewater paddling. Mostly it's about kayaking, but there is canoeing and SUP present as well.
Open Canoe Netherlands
A more official looking website from the Dutch Canoe Federation about open canoeing.
Open Canoe Journal Germany
A more touring canoe oriented website with a nice Forum available as well.
Open Canoe UK
A very nice community of canoeist in the UK with very usefull information on it It's mostly about traditional canoes.

Franzi's paddelschlag
A nice and informative website about a very nice canoeing discipline: Freestyle. Franzi is both ACA whitewater and freestyle instructor, and she's always good company on the river.