“When you hand-make your own gear, it becomes yours, and you become your kayak.” — Mike Livingston, builder of traditional kayaks, was originally featured in ‘Gear We Love’ section of C&K’s December ...

Buffeted by wind, shoved by swells, John Weed and I paddled to Fort Ross -- a Russian colonial outpost on the Sonoma County coast, now a state historic park. It was our third straight day of rough ...

Kayaks and history lessons At Garden Spot, woodworking students build and paddle around in replicas of kayaks from Greenland and Aleutian Islands. P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters Apr 4, 2010 Updated Sep ...

George Dyson started out as a boat builder and designer, and still constructs great sea-going kayaks to Aleutian designs that are thousands of years old. His 1997 book, Darwin Among the Machines, ...

WHEELER – You may have noticed them suspended from rafters in front of the Nehalem Bay Kayak Co., in Wheeler – sleek, semi-transparent water craft which seem to hearken from another culture, another ...

Cold Bay to Unalaska is nearly 200 miles. By plane, it takes about an hour. By kayak, it's nearly a month. Akio Shinya made the trip -- with three others -- in 24 days. "I am old man, 69-years-old," ...

MARTINEZ — Every other day for more than 30 years, Steve Kaspar can be seen out at the marina with one of the kayaks he built. As he sits snugly in his kayak, a wave of calm envelops him as soon as he ...

Humans have been making boats for thousands of years. Archeologists have found evidence of boat building by early human beings all over the world. They say early humans used the boats to both hunt and ...

For the past three years, a British woman has been trying to travel around the globe using only her own strength. Sarah Outen has biked through China and rowed the Pacific Ocean. Now, she’s in the ...