After rescuing a 115-year-old canoe from the dump, Rollie Johnson spent two years restoring it and preparing it for new adventures on the water. Rollie Johnson, longtime youth leader at First Lutheran ...

In a world dominated by mass production and instant gratification, two craftsmen—separated by an ocean but united by a shared ...

A business that manufactures wooden canoe and kayak paddles can be established right from a homebased garage workshop, and requires only a small investment into woodworking equipment to get going.

So working in his basement we brought the canoe back to life. That project rekindled the passion and satisfaction I had when I was younger for making, crafting and sculpting things from wood.” ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Approaching Minneapolis ... and my brother Phil and I paddle the wooden canoe we longed to own, and I am variously ...

Fishers organize their catch in their traditional dugout canoe, called a dungi, after a day of shrimp harvesting at Hara ...

Dan Burton crafts strip-wood canoes, kayaks, standup paddleboards and dinghies at his St. James Boat Shop on Beaver Island, a stone’s throw from Paradise Bay. The carpenter learned the art of ...

Covers fly fishing, waterfowling, wilderness canoe and kayak travel ... and numerous National Magazine Award nominations. His work has been collected in more than a half-dozen “best of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... t grow back. As wood became scarce and the islanders could no longer build seagoing canoes for fishing, they ate ...

BoatArt has spent much of the summer restoring the wooden hull of the 1906 Minnehaha ... 1937 runabout built by Ontario-based Peterborough Canoe Co. “They built five of these, but there ...

Some of that color comes by what’s hanging on the walls: a 1959 Time magazine article comparing ... thing amid an assortment of moored kayaks, canoes and floating docks. While there are plenty ...