As it turns out, building a cedar-strip canoe is much more complicated than Kyle Bissell would have ever imagined. Armed with ...

MONTEVIDEO -- Whether the preferred mode of travel is by boat, hiking shoes or all-terrain-vehicle, our means of getting around in the great outdoors is usually the product of modern industry. Not so ...

Greg Morley trims fiberglass fabric from a canoe he’s building at his shop in Swan Lake. Morley has been building canoes since the 1960s, and his wood and fiberglass technique results in a canoe ...

Morley would build a canoe, run it hard, find its flaws, sell it and use the cash to build a better boat. For years, he kept refining his craft this way, perfecting his canoes, experimenting with ...

There's no room for a car in the Kesselhon garage. Instead, the space is taken up by cedar strip canoes in various stages of construction. Forms for more hang from the rafters. Welcome to the Lakeside ...