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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

"These (wooden) boats, when they came out of the '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, maybe not so much in the '60s, but they were ...

“The concept and the magic of a canvas-covered canoe is that it can have two, three, or even four new outer skins in its lifetime… These canoes are exceptionally recyclable and ultimately, except for ...