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 ...

GRAND FORKS - Larry Gadaire was paddling his homemade cedar strip canoe on Lake Renwick near Cavalier, N.D., one day about 25 years ago when he saw someone cruising the lake in a kayak. A cabinet ...

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There is something about a wooden boat that should be facsinating to most makers, the craftsmanship and level of work that goes into creating a sea-, lake-, or river-worthy craft with smooth lines, ...

Steffan Meyric Hughes recalls paddling wooden canoes down the wild rivers of Maine.

On a dead-end country road surrounded by rolling farm fields south of Middlebury, Scott Barkdoll builds and refurbishes wood and canvas canoes. His classic works evoke a simpler time of communing with ...

Alex Comb of Stewart River Boatworks in Knife River, MN will teach a cedar and canvas canoe building class at the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner on Saturday, August 9 and continue through ...

D’IBERVILLE, MS (WLOX) - Biloxi has a rich tradition of wooden boat building, but there aren’t many master boat builders on the Gulf Coast who are build the floating works of art. In D’Iberville, ...

On a recent afternoon, a dozen teenagers were building boats in a warehouse off University Avenue in St. Paul. Two young men wearing yellow ear protectors hammered the mortise and tenon joints of ...

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 ...

PORT HADLOCK — Students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding have started building two 26-foot sailboats in what the school is calling the Twin Boats project. About 18 students are working ...