Master skin-on-frame sea kayak builder Brian Schulz, founder of Oregon’s Cape Falcon Kayaks, offers lessons on craftsmanship, paddling and personal wellness. Perhaps it’s the experience of gazing at a ...

The bones of the kayak span the garage; the easternmost end extends beyond, into an annex created by 2x4s and a tarp. Symmetrical ribs run down the length, and parts with names like “chines,” “thwarts ...

In seventh grade shop class I once made a birdhouse that turned out so terribly that my mother thought it was a flower planter. Since then things really haven't improved much for me, at least not in ...

Larry Gadaire was paddling his homemade cedar strip canoe on Lake Renwick near Cavalier, N.D., one day about 25 years ago when he saw someone cruising the lake in a kayak. A cabinet maker by trade, ...

NORTH BERWICK, Maine — A look around his garage will tell you — Bob Pease loves to tinker. From a fully restored MG convertible to a rack full of kayaks and other boats, his handiwork is visible in ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- John Harris knows exactly how quirky his company is. Businesses that sell boats are all over the place, especially around the Chesapeake Bay. But a business that sells ...

Adventure tour operators Anthony O'Hern and Anna Paice never intended to become boat builders. But soon after their company won a tender to provide boat tours on Dove Lake in Tasmania's iconic Cradle ...