American Canoe Association
- American Canoe Association
The American Canoe Association (ACA) is the nation's largest paddle sports organization, promoting canoeing, kayaking, and rafting. The ACA sponsors more than seven hundred events each year, along with safety education, instructor certification, waterway conservation and public information campaigns. There are more than four thousand ACA certified canoe and kayak instructors. More than two hundred local paddling clubs and fifty thousand individuals are members.
The ACA was founded in 1880 by Scottish lawyer, John MacGregor, who had founded the British Royal Canoe Club (RCC) in 1866. In 1883, ACA Secretary Charles Neide and retired sea captain “Barnacle” Kendall paddled and sailed over three thousand miles from Lake George, New York to Pensacola, Florida. The Lake George shore where Neide and Kendall launched not only their own boat, but formation of the American Canoe Association is currently part of Wiawaka. In 1886 the ACA and the RCC held the first international canoe sailing regatta. Largely through the efforts of Waldemar Van B. Claussen of the ACA, representatives of nineteen national clubs met in Copenhagen in 1924 to establish the Internationale Repräsentantenschaft des Kanusport (IRK).
External links
* [http://www.acanet.org/ American Canoe Association]
* [http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/CC_Eric/aurora_01.html#CHAPTER%20I Full text of Charles Neide's account of the New York to Florida canoe trip, 1882]
* [http://www.wiawaka.org, Wiawaka Official Site]
* [http://www.alohafoundation.org/article/view/7123/1/949/#ACA ACA Courses offered by the Hulbert Outdoor Center]
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