It was, Victoria Gonzalez admitted, her first time in a canoe, despite being of the ripe old age of 9 and living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But what made this paddle even more special for the Duluth ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...

WEBVTT THE END OF NEXT WEEK. MIKE: IN THIS WEEK’S "POSITIVE PARENTING," THE UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION IS TAKING ON A BOLD STUDYING THE EFFECTS THAT BOAT BUILDING COULD PLAY IN BRINGING FAMILIES ...

HOLLAND — Charlie McConkey went from the automotive industry to boat building, and he's never looked back. Although others at work didn’t enjoy wiring boats, McConkey, a 30-year-old Cedarville, was ...

In a workspace barely large enough to hold his eager students, Steve Lapey is dispensing wisdom gleaned over his 85 years. Canoes have been Steve's hobby for decades and now he is eagerly passing on ...

Several Hawaii students got to show off their hard work Friday with handmade wa’a, or canoes. They were created by Castle High School students in the Po’okela Academy that links classroom academics to ...

BERKELEY — East Bay students are diving into nautical history and building a traditional Hawaiian outrigger canoe at the Aquatic Park. Expert outrigger canoe builder Kiko Eklund Johnston-Kitazawa — ...