ST. MICHAELS — The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a nine-day workshop to teach the basics of building a skin-on-frame kayak and Greenland paddle from Saturday, Sept. 24, to Sunday, Oct. 2, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION — She’s a 15-foot-9-inch-long, lost-art beauty, all graceful curves and elegant flowing lines. She only needs a few bits of fancy trim — and a ...

MURRAY, Ky. – Wedged between a produce stand hawking tomatoes and squash and another showcasing an enormous pile of sweet corn going fast at $4 a dozen, Alonzo "Lonnie" Carver is showing a man a ...

FAIRBANKS — The first canoe paddle Richard Voss made as a Boy Scout more than 50 years ago wasn’t anything to write home about, and Voss didn’t. “I didn’t show it to anyone,” Voss said with a laugh.

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 ...

Only once in nearly 30 years of paddling have I found myself facing a familiar adage in real life. I couldn't help but chuckle when I realized my mistake while unloading my kayak at the put-in: I'd ...

Growing up on a small island in Prince William Sound in Alaska, Maggie Fennell used to travel by baidarka, the cedar-framed kayaks covered with sealskin that her grandfather made. She also went ...