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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Near the back of the Jens Haven Memorial School in Nain, on Labrador's northern coast, there's a wood shop filled with a variety of power tools and projects in progress. No electric tools are buzzing, ...

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 ...

One of the smallest communities in Nunavut is gaining a reputation for kayak-building. For a decade, students at Victor Sammurtok School in Chesterfield Inlet, pop. 375, have been making ...