We know what you're thinking: "I'd love to build a canoe, but this is just too big and too difficult for me." Well, we think you're in for a pleasant surprise. True, this is a large project, and ...

Eds Note: When 15-year-old aspiring outdoor photographer Clayton Simoncic learned his 18-year-old cousin, Xander Davenport, was building a cedar-strip canoe ...

David V. GrahamFlushing's Gary Debevec moves some paddles inside his cedar-strip canoe which he built from home.FLUSHING -- Gary Debevec clearly remembers the day he became interested in building ...

A canoe trip can be a fascinating way to get back in touch with nature. ... is the handiest device in your boat-building toolbox. Use it to strip away the bark.

The hobbyist woodworker said that building a canoe was one of those things on his “bucket list”. “I started dreaming about it maybe 12 years ago. We got the cedar about six years ago.

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 ...

Admittedly, wood-strip construction is not the quickest way to build a boat. It typically takes somewhere between 150 and 200 hours. According to Nick Schade, author of The Strip-Built Sea Kayak ...