Steve Scarborough/Dagger Canoe Company

This week Clint and Dawson sat down with Steve Scarborough. Before the show Dawson was telling Clint what a legend Steve is and how excited he was to do the podcast. Steve is one of few who shape shifted the canoe and kayak industry. Steve Scarborough escaped from his Dublin, Ga. roots to the Chattooga River of Deliverance fame after serving five years as an engineer and manager with AT&T in Atlanta. He survived as a river guide, canoe instructor, and wood paddle builder at his Dagger Paddle Company, a precursor of Dagger Canoe Company, which he, along with Joe Pulliam, Roy Guinn and Pete Jett, founded in Tennessee. Having previously designed canoes for Blue Hole Canoe Co., Steve served as the main boat designer for Dagger and produced canoe and kayak designs for whitewater, recreational flatwater, and sea kayaking. He also worked with the USA National and Olympic whitewater teams. With dozens of designs to his credit, his RPM kayak design is considered the best selling whitewater kayak in history. Steve has served on the Board of the American Canoe Association, as Chairman of the TN Conservation Commission, and, today, serves on the board of Conservation Fisheries, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to preserving the fish and aquatic diversity of streams in the Southeastern USA. He and his wife, Annie, live in Whites Creek Gorge on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau and devote much of their time to building trails, conservation issues and preserving the greater watershed of Whites Creek.

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