“So you’re starting to see what I mean about all the sanding?” says Ron Pellinen, my wooden canoe-building mentor, when I walk into his shop on a brisk March morning in Northern Ontario. Perched on an ...

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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 ...

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 ...

ALLOUEZ (WLUK) -- History is coming alive in the Green Bay area. An authentic wooden canoe is getting some finishing touches ahead of its maiden voyage Saturday. "This canoe. At one time, it was the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Donna Davis doesn't know much about power tools. And she isn't an expert on boats, either. But ...

Bob Green is learning new things, even at age 72. He will proudly show off the 15-foot, 4-inch cedar-strip canoe he built this past year for his sons, Sam and John. He began the canoe project last ...

HOLLAND, MI -- When Captain Darryl Holtz hauls the Wine Seller III down the Lakeshore, he has to leave extra time at the gas pump. Not for fuel or snacks, but because he knows he’ll get a least a few ...

BERKELEY — East Bay students are diving into nautical history and building a traditional Hawaiian outrigger canoe at the Aquatic Park. Expert outrigger canoe builder Kiko Eklund Johnston-Kitazawa — ...