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 ...

white cedar ribs and sheathing, spruce gum-steeped in the indigenous heritage of this centuries-old alchemy. Byers built his first canoe in 1994, after he had a "religious experience" glimpsing a ...

Deciding a typical sealing schooner would be “too easy,” Voss purchased an Indigenous whaling canoe carved by the Nuu-chah-nulth people on Vancouver Island, a 38-foot-long hollowed-out cedar ...

Canoes take many forms: from the slick lines of a racing canoe, to the ruggedness of a seagoing cedar canoe, from cleverly assembled birch bark, to the shiny fiberglass, or the comfy inflatable.

Mark Vore’s cedar strip kayaks are sold as floating works of art through a gallery. Growing up in the prime boating area of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, what was your ...