Paddling Wild Canada with Bill Swift
Lafayette, LA
November 14th | Free Event
Rates
- Free event!
Meeting details
- Event is at 6pm at Pack & Paddle.
Duration
- 1.5 Hours
About
At the Paddlesports show this past August, we discovered Swift Canoe & Kayak - a new line of paddle craft that we feel will add tremendously to the experience of paddling our Louisiana waterways. While talking to owner Bill Swift, we hatched a plan for Bill to deliver the first order to our shop himself, and give a seminar about paddling in his backyard, the wilds of Ontario Canada.
Paddling Algonquin Park
Come out and help us welcome Bill for a special evening event at Pack & Paddle. Bill will be presenting a seminar on canoe and pack boat tripping in Algonquin Park, Ontario. Algonquin is an area of over 3000 square miles of undeveloped wilderness that has only one road running through it. The park is a nature and wildlife paradise that has many canoe and pack boat routes running through it. Bill will be presenting info on the park, how to access it, how to best travel through it and will share some of his favorite spots.
Family Business in wilds of Canada
Bill will also be discussing how he grew up in a family owned canoe trip outfitting business, Algonquin Outfitters. Time will also be spent showing folks some of the lightweight Swift Canoes & Pack Boats that his company now produces and how to best travel with them.
About Your Speaker
Bill has been paddling canoes, kayaks and pack boats his whole life. He grew up at his parent’s wilderness canoe tripping camp, Camp Pathfinder, in Algonquin Park, Canada. He also spent 4 years tripping at Camp Keewaydin in Temagami, Ontario culminated in a 7 week canoe trip to Hudson’s Bay. After his camp life, Bill spent many years working and guiding at his parents business, Algonquin Outfitters. In 1984, he started building canoes at the family business and in 1989 started Swift Canoe Company whose goal was to produce the best tripping canoes. The business grew over the years and has the raised the standard in the Paddlesports industry for lightweight composite boats. Today, the company’s mission is to design, engineer, build, market and sell the highest quality, best performing and most comfortable canoes, kayaks and pack boats.