What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter's glue, and then cover the ...

Hulls constructed of willow give canoes a Mississippi flavor. Classes meet two nights a week for six weeks. Canoes are 15 feet and weigh about 42 pounds. Avid paddler John Carter of Jackson never ...

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OAK GROVE, Minn. — Inside an unassuming workshop, Jesse Gerhard is painstakingly building a canoe with locally discarded wood. "This is from a church in Crystal, the actual plywood. The redwood is ...

NORFOLK, Va. — When you walk into the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop right on Ballentine Boulevard in Norfolk, the heat in the room is almost as enveloping as the sounds of hammers, sewing machines, ...

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Art hangs in museums, graces local trails and it floats on water when Tony Eliasen slips his sleek hand-made wooden canoe into the lake. The canoe is a beautiful, gleaming sight to behold when Eliasen ...

Former South Albany High School wood shop teacher Chava Neuhaus has spent the year and change since she retired working on a single project: building a rowboat. The boat, a lapstrake rowing pram built ...

THIS IS ONE OF OURS HERE. THIS IS A 28 FOOT YAWL WE BUILT FOUR OF THESE. CRUISING THROUGH VINEYARD HAVEN HARBOR WITH NAT BENJAMIN IS LIKE LISTENING TO A PROUD FATHER INTRODUCE YOU TO HIS PROGENY. THIS ...

The Festival is an immense effort from a diverse group of people who have the same things in common: they love maritime ...