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 ...

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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

A TIME. ♪ DISTANCE DOES NOT LIMIT A DREAM. IN FACT, SOMETIMES THE MORE DISTANT THE DREAM, THE MORE PASSIONATE THE DREAMER. >> IT IS THE MOST REWARDING THING I HAVE EVER DONE, FOR SURE. ANTHONY: HERE ...

WOLFEBORO - Boatbuilding made Bath, Maine, world famous, and on a much smaller scale it could be doing the same for Wolfeboro, thanks to the New Hampshire Boat Museum. The museum was founded in 1992 ...

OAK GROVE, Minn. — Inside an unassuming workshop, Jesse Gerhard is painstakingly building a canoe with locally discarded wood. "This is from a church in Crystal, the actual plywood. The redwood is ...