“My favorite part was Day One. You start with a few pieces of wood, and by the end of the day it begins to look like a boat.” Matthew Smurthwaite places a strip of mahogany plywood as he speaks. “My ...
Students at Mercy Montessori School in Cincinnati handcrafted a 15-foot canoe, learning how to steam bend, tie knots and secure the boat in the process.Seventh and eighth-graders spent a week building ...
WHEN MITCH POLING offered a class on building a kayak like the Alutiiq (Aleut) used to make, people signed up for one of two reasons: Most, he said, came to learn how to do it so they could build ...