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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS - 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 ...

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 ...

Lawrence Cheek was an El Paso kid and Tucson writer, and the last thing on his mind when wife Patty was transferred to Seattle in 1995 was building his own sailboat. First the couple tried kayaking at ...

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 ...

Students in Ivujivik, Nunavik, are learning to build traditional Greenlandic kayaks as a way of connecting to different traditional cultures, and learning water safety. Thomassie Mangiok, a centre ...