Custom canoe & kayak tees, made one at a time.
Pick a mark, write the line that matters — the river you run every spring, the chain of lakes you crossed in a week, the portage that nearly broke you, the crew that always shows — and we press a one-of-one tee on soft ring-spun cotton. No wholesale logo, no someone-else's slogan. The line on the chest is yours.
Every paddling crew has a few names that only mean something to the people who've loaded the same boats off the same roof for years. The river with the ledge you scout every time. The week you crossed the whole chain and saw nobody. The portage everyone swears is longer than the map says. A big-box outdoor tee can't print any of that — it's a wholesale shape under a stock paddle silhouette. We flipped the order: you do the choosing.
Start with a mark drawn for exactly this register — a wake, the far shore, a reed line, a compass — then write the line underneath. We press it the way we'd want our own: soft 142gsm cotton, water-based ink that settles into the cloth, a silhouette that breathes on a hot portage and dries fast after a swim instead of standing stiff in the gear bin all winter.
Twelve marks in the current library, rotating seasonally. Browse the whole field →
- 01Pick a mark
Choose from the field library — waves, horizon, fronds, bearing and the rest. Each is drawn to print clean at chest size.
- 02Write your line
A headline and a small caption — the river, the lake chain, the route, the year, the crew. Pick the ink, the garment colour, and your size (S–2XL).
- 03We press it
One-of-one, on demand, water-based ink on soft 142gsm cotton. A numbered collector card of your design lands with the order.
What exactly am I buying?
A one-of-one custom paddling tee. You pick a mark from the field library — a wake, the far shore, a reed line, a compass — write the line you actually want printed under it (the river, the chain of lakes, the portage route, the year, the names of the crew that paddled it), and we press it on demand. Every order also ships with a numbered digital collector card: your exact design, stamped as the Nth print of that mark. CAD $42.
What's the tee itself?
Bella+Canvas 3001 — soft 142gsm combed, ring-spun cotton. Pre-shrunk, side-seamed, shoulder-taped. We picked the mid-weight on purpose: it breathes on a hot portage and dries fast after a swim instead of standing stiff like a 240gsm slab. The print is water-based DTG ink that sinks into the cloth rather than crusting on top — it survives the sunscreen-and-lake-water week.
What can I put on it?
A mark plus your own headline and a small caption line — the river, the lake chain, the route, the year, the crew. Twelve marks in the current library — waves, horizon, fronds, bearing, shelter, peaks and more. Four ink colours (ember, amber, sage, ink) on four garment grounds (canvas, dusk, ember, night). Sizes S through 2XL.
Does this make a good canoe or kayak gift?
That's most of why we built it. A generic outdoor tee from the big-box store says nothing; one that names the river a crew runs every spring, in the route and the year and the paddlers, reads like it was made for exactly them — because it was. Pressed on demand, shipped in a recycled mailer, with a numbered collector card to keep. Works for a first solo trip, a tripping club, or the paddler who measures the year in put-ins.
Is the collector card an NFT?
No. No blockchain, no Discord, no wallet. It's a high-resolution render of your exact design, numbered and signed with your handle and the date, that lands with your order confirmation and lives at a permanent URL. Closer to a receipt you'd actually want to keep. The marks rotate seasonally — once a mark retires, the editions already minted with it stay rare.
Put the river on the chest.
One mark, your line, a numbered card to keep. Built in about a minute in the configurator.
Build your paddling tee — CAD $42