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 ...

Are you, like Amy Poehler and anybody who knows anything, ultra pissed that national treasure Nick Offerman was not nominated for an Emmy? Well, a good way to get that anger out is to watch a ...

In a carving shed in Sitka National Historical Park, a team of five well-known carvers are continuing, and reviving, an art practiced since time immemorial — carving a wooden dugout canoe from the ...

A young Membertou woman has a good reason to be showing up almost every day to help build a traditional Mi’kmaw birch bark ...

Regardless of which playstyle you’ve chosen, it’ll only be a few minutes before you likely build your first boat. Just look for a small alter that has steps leading up to a conch shell-shaped opening.

“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 ...

When most people think of canoes, they probably envision a standard wooden canoe floating peacefully in a lake. However, students at BYU have done the impossible and built something completely ...

Take a week out of the summer to build your own canoe on the shores of Squam Lake.The Squam Lakes Association is offering its Fox Boat Building Class this Aug. 17 to 23.Renowned boat builder Bill ...

View post: What It's Like Traveling to Nuuk, Greenland, as a U.S. Tourist: 12 Tips for an Arctic Adventure Ken Weeks owned a 900-square-foot apartment in Manhattan’s Alphabet City in 1999, but he was ...