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 ...

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 ...

In a workspace barely large enough to hold his eager students, Steve Lapey is dispensing wisdom gleaned over his 85 years. Canoes have been Steve's hobby for decades and now he is eagerly passing on ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Donna Davis doesn't know much about power tools. And she isn't an expert on boats, either. But ...

Applications require a plan not just for building a canoe but for deepening connections between the logs, trees and waʻa and their beneficiaries.