Affiliate Program

We're excited to announce that Sanborn Canoe Co. now has an Affiliate Program for you blogger and website people out there.

Do you run a blog or other website devoted to the outdoors, canoeing or paddle-sports? Would you like to make money by driving people to our site?

We are offering product specific affiliate programs for the four paddles listed above and a "Common Hop-Link" option with a link to our front page.

HOW IT WORKS
You sign-up for our affiliate program which will walk you through how to post specific affiliate links to our products. Once these links are on your site you will earn 10% of all sales when someone clicks through the link on your site, and makes a purchase on our website. We handle all the sales and shipping and everything. Then at the end of each month we will send you what you’ve earned. It’s that simple!

· SIGN-UP is FREE
· EARN 10% on every sale
· EASY - Use the easy set-up and once the links are on your site your work is done!
· PAID Monthly! We’ll pay you at the end of every month for all purchases made!
· CUSTOMIZABLE - Know a little something about code? Create your own look for the links!
· TRACK your sales with your earnings report!

WANT TO JOIN?
Click here for detailed instructions about how to join and set-up our Affiliate Program!

www.sanborncanoe.com

New Year...New Website

Check out our new website design!

Shortly after launching our original website we realized the limitations inherent in a fully flash-based website. It was slow and hard for search engines to register...

So we set to work to create a better experience for all involved. This new site should load faster, be easier to use and create a better environment for Sanborn Canoe Co. online. Let us know what you think of the new site...and let us know any bugs we need to work out. Thanks!

New Paddle Design

We'd like to introduce our newest bent shaft paddle design...

It's named after the beautiful Saganaga Lake in the BWCA, and we're calling it the 'Sag'. We went simple on this one. One piece on either side for both the blade and the grip, letting the beautiful dark grain of the cedar to define this paddle.



Product Description:
Taking it’s name from Saganaga Lake, one of the wonderful areas of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, every Sag canoe paddle is handmade from beautiful western red and white cedar to be both lightweight and extremely durable. The slightly narrower and longer blade alleviates stress on the joints while the 14 degree bend at the throat allow for a powerful stroke. The blade is sheathed in fiberglass and a hard epoxy tip is added to ward off pesky logs and rocks. And our very own fox-head palm grip, indexed shaft and thin blade are all designed to remove stress from your hands and joints.

Specifications:
Length: 50", 54", 56"(Custom lengths available upon request)
Average Weight: 17oz.
Blade Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 20"
Blade Thickness: 3/16” – ¼”
Shaft Style: Bent Shaft: 14 Degree Bend
Grip Style: one-sided fox-head grip
Grip Width: 3 1/2”
Wood Type: Western Red and White Cedar
Laminated blade
5-piece laminated shaft
Extra 1/4" epoxy blade tip
Blade is sheathed in 8oz. Fiberglass
Entire paddle is coated in epoxy
Three coats marine grade polyurethane to entire paddle
'Sanborn Canoe Co.' is branded onto one face of blade

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!