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 ...

Chad Quinn is a kayak maker in Brevard, North Carolina. People travel from all over the country and Canada, to take part in his ancient kayak building process. WYFF News 4's Photojournalist Chip ...

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 ...

IF THE ONLY THING THAN HAVING A BOAT IS HAVING A FRIEND WITH A BOAT, THEN MEET YOUR NEW FRIEND. PEOPLE FIND YOU, THEY SEND A REQUEST. YOU ADD TO THAT REQUEST, YOU HAVE A TIME AND DATE WORKS. I GET ...

Photo Provided Six Marietta High School students spent spring semester hand building a wooden kayak through the school’s art program, under the direction of art teacher Heath Rader. Sophomores Emma ...