“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take a tour of a school that is preserving the craft of wooden boat building. The Les Cheneaux Islands are a chain of 36 protected islands along the Northern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper ...

Seventeen-month-old Noah Holsinger of Sanford loves being outside, and he actually went for his first canoe ride when he was seven days old. Sort of. It was December, but his father Curt Holsinger ...

A hands-on carpentry program for youth is underway at the Hudson River Maritime Museum Wooden Boat School. The six-week after-school class teaches youths 14 to 18 the fundamentals ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION — She’s a 15-foot-9-inch-long, lost-art beauty, all graceful curves and elegant flowing lines. She only needs a few bits of fancy trim — and a ...

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 — ...

KITTERY, Maine — The initial goal of the Wood Island Life Saving Station Association was to preserve the century-old Kittery site previously manned by predecessors of our modern-day Coast Guard. It’s ...

NORFOLK, Va. — When you walk into the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop right on Ballentine Boulevard in Norfolk, the heat in the room is almost as enveloping as the sounds of hammers, sewing machines, ...

Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of ...