For water sport enthusiasts, Vasona Lake County Park offers weekend rentals including pedal boats, canoes, stand‑up paddleboards, kayaks and sailboats (with some restrictions).
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Debby Rice,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
On the river, two 10-metre canoes are strapped together, holding a truck and powered by a single outboard motor.
Their protagonists tend to be runaways—men who join whaling expeditions in their haste to dodge the malaise that sets in on shore, boys who board rafts floating down the Mississippi to evade their guardians and their chores.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Today, the village is separated from the mainland by about 660 yards of shimmering turquoise water where fishermen paddle on homemade rafts.
More than 700 rescuers equipped with underwater sonar devices, dinghies and drones were deployed Sunday to search for the missing people and the truck.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
17 May 2026
Golden mussels clog the thruster and decorate the underside of his dinghies.
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