T-Shirts Arrived Today!

Our first batch of t-shirts arrived today. Thank you to Quali-Tee Screenprinting of Winona, MN. The shirts turned out great!

Get yours today at http://www.sanborncanoe.com/

FREE T-SHIRT CONTEST

This contest is pretty straight-forward. Whoever recruits the most people to become a fan of our facebook page WINS A FREE T-SHIRT! (the easiest way is to go into our facebook page and click on "suggest to friends" and send an invite to your friends - facebook page here)

This will be a maroon t-shirt with the Sanborn Canoe Co. logo on the front(pics to come soon)

Yeah I know we're blatantly using you to promote our business...but so what someone will get a FREE T-SHIRT out of it! :) So have some fun with it!

See rules below!

HERE ARE THE RULES:

1. Whoever recruits the most people to become a fan of our facebook page by Dec. 1st wins a free t-shirt(S-M-L or XL) We will even ship it free within the USA or Canada! (and if you pay shipping we'll ship it anywhere in the world!)

2. If you participate you will need to email us a list of the names that you personally recruited by the end of Dec. 1st(Be honest! This is just for fun)

3.We don't really care how you recruit people, but here are a few ideas - door-to-door, mailings, tv commercial, flyers, email, etc.

Just Kidding - the easiest way is to go into our facebook page and click on "Suggest to Friends" and send it to your friends...(Facebook page here)

Our email: sanborncanoe@gmail.com

New Camping Recipe

Don't know how this started(Kevin or Micah I think??) but while our recent trip to the BWCA we created a new camping recipe - at least new to us!

Recipe:

Cooking Gear:
1. Ziploc Bag
2. Deep Frying Pan
3. Tongs
Ingredients:
1. String Cheese
2. Desired Flavor of Shore Lunch
3. Frying Oil
4. Water
5. Marinara sauce(if desired)
Directions:
Heat oil over fire or camping stove.
Take your string cheese(either full length or cut in half) and dip in water. Then with your shore lunch and wet string cheese in your ziploc bag shake well.
Place your now breaded string cheese into hot oil and fry until it begins to float. Wait 30 seconds and remove with tongs.
There are a variety of different shore lunch flavors to choose from so experiment for your favorite one. Makes a great appetizer while camping.

We used Cajun Shore Lunch for our sticks...they had some kick!

Oct. '09 BWCA Trip

Photo's from our Fall(At times felt like winter!) trip to the BWCA! It snowed every day, but even so we had great weather.

Lakes we traveled through in our 4 day trip: Little John, Mountain, Moose, Clearwater, Caribou, Little Caribou, Pine Lake and a few other little ones...We hiked up to Gogebic Lake, It's a little stocked trout lake at the top of a 1-2 mile hike from Clearwater. Well worth the hike...it was beautiful, and usually great for fishing(or so I'm told) nothing hitting that day.

Days were nice, fishing was so so, scenery was beautiful and the only other souls we saw were three guys flyfishing on the stocked trout lake.

I enjoy camping up there is the fall for a few reasons. The bugs are gone, fires feel so much better when it's cold and the fall colors mixed with a little snow is absolutely gorgeous.

Campsite on Clearwater Lake. This campsite connected to the Border Trail that we hiked a couple miles along to get to Gogebic Lake. A nice stocked trout lake.

Lake Trout. Too bad they are out of season...he was looking mighty tasty!

Yep...there was snow every day, but the weather was great regardless.

View down Pine Lake from the portage.

Last night...about half an hour later we decided to pack up and cross two lakes to the van and drive home :) Made it home by 4:30 am. Good, fun night. If you've never tried night canoeing, do so...safely!

Check out more photos from this trip HERE!

Little Glady Jo

The idea is similar to when a dad goes out and buys a baseball mit for his kid before they're
even born. You want to teach your children to love camping and canoeing and all that...so get them started early.

This is our 'Little Jo' canoe paddle. Handmade from the finest cedar this wood paddle is beautiful and light. It is just over two feet long so it is great for babies, toddlers or older. We do recommend tying a string to it when you are out in the canoe:)

Below is Gladys Jo and she is holding one of our

'Little Jo' paddles that are named after her.

"Gunflint"

Product Description
The Gunflint Canoe Paddle is an extremely lightwieght wooden canoe paddle. It weighs in at 17 - 19oz. and has a 14degree bend. Western red cedar is used for its exceptional beauty and light weight. Not to worry though this is one sturdy canoe paddle. It's blade is wrapped in 4 oz. fiberglass and an epoxy tip is added to ward off rocks and debris. Satin finish polyurethane is used to better protect the hands from blisters and wear that more glossy paddles are known to produce.
Every gunflint paddle is handmade in Winona, MN. Carved from laminated cedar with spokeshave, block planes and a number of various sanders. Hard work and extreme care go into every paddle.

The Website is Up and Running

We finally have our website up and running and functional. We're working on getting more stuff on it soon, but check it out. Let us know what you think.

www.sanborncanoe.com

Pipes

One of the things we like to do best is set ourselves firmly into a lawn chair next to a Boundary Waters lake and smoke a pipe. It's very relaxing...and we're good at relaxing. Taking up the art of pipe-making was the next step and Todd, one of our very own Sanborn guys, is pretty good at it. Take a look at his pipes...

Become a fan at his facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Winona-MN/Todd-Randall-Smokin-Hot-Pipe-Co/127561032965?ref=nf

First Sale

We made our first sale! Two 'Kawishiwi" canoe paddles. We learned we had an order for some paddles about a month ahead of pick-up(Thanks Uncle Eric!!!) but we were still in the midst of developing the process of fiberglassing and finishing them with an epoxy tip...it was a challenge to complete them, a lot of trial and error but they turned out great and we learned a lot along the way!