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 ...

Eds Note: When 15-year-old aspiring outdoor photographer Clayton Simoncic learned his 18-year-old cousin, Xander Davenport, was building a cedar-strip canoe near Simoncic’s home in southern Maine, he ...

“My favorite part was Day One. You start with a few pieces of wood, and by the end of the day it begins to look like a boat.” Matthew Smurthwaite places a strip of mahogany plywood as he speaks. “My ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

A team of engineering students have spent months making a concrete canoe. They're getting ready to race in a national competition this May.

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 — ...

No buyers have made an offer on the former Old Town Canoe building on Main Street, so company and city officials are taking steps to find a new use that will complement the community’s long-range ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...