Welcome to our Paddle to the Sea website!
Welcome to our Paddle to the Sea website! We hope you are here because you found one of our canoes. Please email us at: kschottk@mpsk12.net and let us know where you found the canoe, what number is on it and where you are putting it back in. If you want to talk to a real person please call 231-798-8159 for any questions you may have.
The 3rd grade classes at McLaughlin Elementary School in Muskegon, MI have created foot long canoes that were put in Lake Superior in May of 2010. In the story
Paddle to the Sea an Indian boy carves a canoe and lets it go in Lake Superior hoping it will make it to the sea. Forty-one canoes have been released and we are hoping to get reports on where they are. Each canoe is numbered for a 3rd grader at our school (#1-41). They will be watching this website for years to come hoping their canoe will be found and watch as it travels through the Great Lakes out to the sea.
Tues. May 25, 2010 21 canoes were released in Lake Superior.
Wed. May 26, 2010 at 1:00 pm 20 were released on the south side of the Soo Locks.
ALL CANOES FOUND SO FAR WERE LAUNCHED SOUTH OF THE SOO LOCKS
May 26, 2010 at 3:30pm Secarrean's canoe #14 was found in the St, Mary's River.
May 28, 2010 at 11:40am Armond's canoe #36 was found on Sugar Island and 7 mile.
May 28, 2010 at 6:47pm Torrence's #37 canoe was found also on Sugar Island.
June 7, 2010 Joseph's canoe #25 was found 2 miles south of the Soo Locks. This canoe is
damaged possibly by a propeller but is still floating.
June 10, 2010 Alisa's canoe #30 was found in the St. Mary's River. The bow is damaged but she still floats.
June 10, 2010 Aurella's canoe #10 was found on Sugar Island.
June 17, 2010 Khari'yana's canoe #27 was found in the St. Mary's River by Sault St. Marie Canada.
June 17, 2010 Alisa's canoe #30 was found again on a small island 7 miles from the Soo Locks.
June 20, 2010 De'Asia's canoe #31 was found same place as #25 by Brian who has found 3 canoes so far. It has been damaged by a propeller and a dog chewing on it a little.
June 26, 2010 Khari'yana's canoe #27 was found at the Garden River Reserve.
June 30, 2010 at 5:30 pm Ayana's canoe #11 was found stuck in the sand at the north end of Great Sand Bay near Eagle Harbor. This is the 1st Lake Superior canoe found!!!!!
July 4, 2010 Damone's canoe #39 was found on Sugar Island and 6 mile.
July 19, 2010 Jadelynn's canoe #33 was found at 1:00 pm while a nice man from Arizona was kayaking along the west shore of Sugar Island. He had his nephew relaunch it back in the St. Mary's River.
July 26, 2010 Secarrean's canoe #14 was found again exactly 2 months from the 1st find. It has traveled about 1 mile downriver from the Locks. It was found on a small island by the Sugar Island ferry.
July 26, 2010 Angel's canoe #9 was found 1 1/2 miles downriver on Sugar Island south of the Soo Locks. Canoes #14 and # 9 were found by the same person and were sent on their way.
August 24. 2010 Derrickus canoe # 4 was found in Oiseu Bay National Park by a kayaker.
August 29, 2010 Brooklyn's canoe #41 was found on Isle Royal.
August 31, 2010 Derrickus canoe #4 was found again at Willow River National Park it was taken to New Zealand and released there.
November 11, 2010 Brooklyn's canoe #41 was found in Dahab, Egypt in the Red Sea. If you flew the canoe there would you please email us so we know for sure how it traveled there. A phone message was received but it was very hard to understand it.
December 23, 2010 Derrickus canoe #4 was found in Christchurch, New Zealand by Luke Porter and his family. They have not released it as yet.
We never thought the canoes would be traveling the world like they are.
If you have any information regarding any of our canoes please feel free to call or email us.
