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1971
Jim Henry wins the National Whitewater Open Canoe Championships
in a home built canoe he calls the Malecite.
Mad River Canoe is born.
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Mad River Canoe is Born
1st Kevlar® Canoe
Verlen & Steve
Our First Factory
International Arctic Project
Dana Henry sweeps the 2000 Nationals
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![]() 1985
"You Can Canoe! Days", which offers the chance to test paddle a
Mad River Canoe, becomes a nationwide event.
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![]() 1973
Mad River builds its first Royalex
canoe, the Endurall.
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1988
Mad River Canoe receives Canoes Magazine's first ever, Manufacturer
of the Year Award. Mad River will repeat in 1991 and 1994.
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1974
Mad River builds the canoe industry's first Kevlar
Canoe.
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1975
Mad River introduces the Explorer,
destined to become its most popular model.
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1989
Paddling a Mad River Typhoon, Kay Henry and Rob Center take first
place in the 350 mile Arctic Canoe Race in Tornio, Finland.
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![]() 1977
First Kevlar
Explorer spends a winter outdoors in the Arctic after completing
the Back River expedition. It remains in active use today.
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![]() 1992
To highlight the plight of America's river systems, Tom Warren and
John Hilton, padding 17' Royalex® canoes, retrace Lewis
and Clark's 1804 journey from St. Louis, Missouri to Astoria, Oregon.
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1980
One hundred Mad River owners participate in the first Mad River
Rally, forerunner of "You Can Paddle! Days."
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1995
Explorer Will Steger and an international team complete the first
single season crossing of the Arctic Ocean by dogsled and canoe.
Mad River Canoe designed and built the special canoe sleds which
were paddled across open water and dragged over ice floes.
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1983
Verlen Kruger and Steve Landick, paddling a Mad River Monarch, complete
the Ultimate Canoe Challenge, a 3½ year, 28,000 mile odyssey on
North American Waterways.
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1999
Mad River Canoe, Wilderness Systems, Wave Sport, Windrider and Voyageur
all merge to form Confluence Watersports Company. Together
these companies offer the most complete line of paddlesports equipment
ever assembled
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1984
Verlen Kruger and Valerie Fons enter the Guinness Book of Records
with a record-breaking trip down the Mississippi in a specially
built Mad River Canoe.
First place award from the Society of Plastics for innovative use
of Kelvar® laminate in the Explorer.
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2000
Mad River introduces its R-Series
canoes, bringing affordable excellence to a whole new generation
of paddlers.
2001
Mad River celebrates its 30th anniversary with the introduction
of the Special
Edition Malecite, commemorating Jim Henry's first canoe design.
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