Hulls constructed of willow give canoes a Mississippi flavor. Classes meet two nights a week for six weeks. Canoes are 15 feet and weigh about 42 pounds. Avid paddler John Carter of Jackson never ...

There they were, one with a boat-building business and one wanting to hold a boat-building class. Would they ever connect, or would they simply pass like ships in the night? Of course they would get ...

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Art hangs in museums, graces local trails and it floats on water when Tony Eliasen slips his sleek hand-made wooden canoe into the lake. The canoe is a beautiful, gleaming sight to behold when Eliasen ...

NORFOLK, Va. — When you walk into the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop right on Ballentine Boulevard in Norfolk, the heat in the room is almost as enveloping as the sounds of hammers, sewing machines, ...

A 1,200-acre koa forest in Ka‘u is almost ready to be harvested for the first time in nearly two decades. Since its establishment, however, no trees have been harvested from the 1,257-acre forest ...

D’IBERVILLE, MS (WLOX) - Biloxi has a rich tradition of wooden boat building, but there aren’t many master boat builders on the Gulf Coast who are build the floating works of art. In D’Iberville, ...

Members of the Inuit community of Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador province once used wood-and-canvas canoes to navigate the region's rivers. An Inuit Builder Crafts His Last Canoe In a remote ...

OAK GROVE, Minn. — Inside an unassuming workshop, Jesse Gerhard is painstakingly building a canoe with locally discarded wood. "This is from a church in Crystal, the actual plywood. The redwood is ...

ALLOUEZ (WLUK) -- History is coming alive in the Green Bay area. An authentic wooden canoe is getting some finishing touches ahead of its maiden voyage Saturday. "This canoe. At one time, it was the ...

Art hangs in museums, graces local trails and it floats on water when Tony Eliasen slips his sleek hand-made wooden canoe into the lake. The canoe is a beautiful, gleaming sight to behold when Eliasen ...