Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Building a canoe — and rebuilding a relationship with his late father Trent Preszler says his hardscrabble life growing up on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

My father was recovering from a heart attack, flipping through a magazine at the library, when he decided to build his first boat. He saw an ad for a wooden kayak kit, and something about the grace of ...

2024 was a busy year for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. The nonprofit group maintains and promotes the 740-mile water trail from Old Forge through the Adirondacks and into Vermont, New Hampshire, ...

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 ...