In early August, Avon Lake, announced that it is closing its plants and ceasing production of Royalex, ending the era of Royalex canoes. In early August, PolyOnein Avon Lake, Ohio announced that it is ...

Lynn McAdams remembers his first crisis in canoe-making, back when he sold the boats on the banks of the Clark Fork River in Missoula. “I got rid of everything I had when the first oil embargo came on ...

Canoeists are mourning the expected loss of a light and tough material that revolutionized the iconic Canadian pastime. Royalex is a composite material of vinyl, plastic and foam invented in the 1970s ...

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