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 ...

Regardless of which playstyle you’ve chosen, it’ll only be a few minutes before you likely build your first boat. Just look for a small alter that has steps leading up to a conch shell-shaped opening.

The Annapolis Maritime Museum’s Box of Rain Build-a-Boat program, teaching area youth to construct a boat from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit, kicked off in January and will run through March.

It was, Victoria Gonzalez admitted, her first time in a canoe, despite being of the ripe old age of 9 and living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But what made this paddle even more special for the Duluth ...

BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...