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How to Build a Canoe

What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter’s glue, and then cover the ...
Regardless of which playstyle you’ve chosen, it’ll only be a few minutes before you likely build your first boat. Just look for a small alter that has steps leading up to a conch shell-shaped opening.
Trent Preszler says his hardscrabble life growing up on a cattle ranch in Faith, South Dakota was made tougher because of his relationship with his father, Leon, a former rodeo champion and Vietnam ...
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 ...
BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...
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WOLFEBORO - Boatbuilding made Bath, Maine, world famous, and on a much smaller scale it could be doing the same for Wolfeboro, thanks to the New Hampshire Boat Museum. The museum was founded in 1992 ...
GREAT FALLS (AP) Get very far into canoeing and someday you ll lose your heart to a stripper. Scott Enloe of Great Falls has and, family man that he is, was so taken with the comely, shapely cedar ...
<P> Some students ride in canoes; Our Lady Star of the Sea eighth-graders are building one.<P> This year the school applied for the Melvin Conant Memorial Youth Fund with the Calvert Marine Museum in ...