Right before SPRING here in MN comes State Hockey Tourney. Beginning today we can see the entire drama unfold over the next 5 days. This is some of the best sport one can find on TV today. Competition for the pure love of the game with athletes giving everything they have. 

Exciting News! SuperiorSurfSystems has just picked up two new lines of boats that offer some exhilarating new options for fun on the water and which will round out our stable, making this little shop on the Nation's North Shore quite likely, the most unique boat shop in North America as far as specialized equipment that you just won't find at most paddlesport shops. Not to mention experience and knowledge you will not expect either.

This is just the beginning too, there are many more things to come.

If somebody knows of a more interesting shop please fill me in, I want to go.

This spring sees the addition of both Valley Sea Kayaks, out of Nottingham, England, and Fluid Kayaks, out of Parys, South Africa.

Valley has long been an industry leader, nearly 4 decades of boat building, and now expands into high performance open water racing/fitness kayaks and surf kayaks. Meanwhile, Fluid is a dynamic new comer to the world of kayak manufacturing, with some twists and turns of its own.

How cool that the ideas of the people indigenous to the arctic, the wandering Polynesians, the Vikings, the Voyaguers.... are still motivating us to return to the water with new ideas & designs.

The new fleet of Epics has arrived: V-10's, legacy's and 18 X's are in. Think trailer is arriving sometime in early April. The Fluids are coming in along with the Valleys' as we speak, Should be a fun spring. If you can't make Canoecopia, consider making the Kettle River Kayak Festival May 3-4 www.Kettleriverpaddlefest.com or the SuperiorSurfSytems demo day May 31st on the end of Park point in Duluth. Bayside for warmer water.

I am traveling to Canoecopia, www.canoecopia.com in Madison, WI at the end of this week, March 7-9. I will have some boats with me and can bring anything that is currently here in the shop. Please contact me by phone or e-mail should you wish to make arrangements.

Spring Regards, almost, John Abrahams

218-591-7873

Late February brings longer light, something all paddlers/surfers can appreciate.

Yet today, the wind hits your face so hard it makes your teeth hurt, Superior is freezing up, all the way to Stoney Pt. Up til now a paddler could drop their boat in and head out for a supernatural adventure, church, any day of the week, any time of the day. 

Its another below zero cold spell and the pack ice is forming and reforming constantly. Every now & again a bold ice fisherman ventures out to set up on what may remain in place but then, again, might not.

Will the Lake have another late, unimagineably smooth freeze like last year? That 'once in century' occurrence that allowed a five year old girl to have a shipwreck named after her. (She discovered the wreckage of the sunken ship off Park Point, in Duluth, MN, through perfectly transparent ice last February).

Sophie's Wreck is still not conclusively identified, so, guess the current moniker should stick.

Besides, Superior should  keep some of her secrets and maintain many of her mysteries and myths. She is a complex character.

Keep checking in, as winter looses its grip on the frozen north and the water begins to flow, bringing the lifeblood of spring, we will keep you posted as to new happenings here on Superior's North Shore. Looking forward to a great '08.