You can't buy one of Kevin Fredericks' gleaming cedar-strip canoes. Nobody can. He has built four of them now and has another one in the works. He has no idea who will someday own it. But it isn't for ...

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Trent Preszler builds heirloom quality canoes using traditional woodworking techniques, each boat painstakingly molded from hundreds of hand-cut wood strips during an exacting process that can take ...

There is something about a wooden boat that should be facsinating to most makers, the craftsmanship and level of work that goes into creating a sea-, lake-, or river-worthy craft with smooth lines, ...

I love the adventure and experience of canoe camping. Packing food and camping gear into a canoe and paddling to a wilderness campsite. I’ve taken many week long trips into Canada’s Quetico Provincial ...

In February of this year, the red cedar log Steve Brown and his apprentices were working with was full of cracks. By the end of early October it had blossomed into a successful dugout canoe. Sealaska ...

The first thing we always do when we open up our Ontario summer cabin is to carefully carry out my cedar and canvas canoe. It has lain inside for months, protected from the ice and snow, falling ...

WADENA, Minn. — Wadena-Deer Creek senior Cody Wheeler was down to the deadline to decide what his woodworking project was going to be for his shop class last winter. A last-minute decision brought him ...

He is a weaver of stories and teller of jokes, a singer of songs, a teacher who is always learning from his students. He also is a carver of huge, solid cedar canoes. Robert Peele, a 52-year-old ...

On Sept. 29, Beau Wagner will begin the journey of carving a cedar dugout canoe at Gabriola Elementary School. It will be the first time it will happen on the island in front of the community since ...