FLUSHING-- Gary Debevec clearly remembers the day he became interested in building cedar-strip canoes and kayaks. One of his two daughters, Nicole, asked him if he was willing to go to her college ...

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There is something about a wooden boat that should be facsinating to most makers, the craftsmanship and level of work that goes into creating a sea-, lake-, or river-worthy craft with smooth lines, ...

You can't buy one of Kevin Fredericks' gleaming cedar-strip canoes. He has built four of them now and has another one in the works. He has no idea who will someday own it. But it isn't for sale. "I've ...

GREAT FALLS (AP) Get very far into canoeing and someday you ll lose your heart to a stripper. Scott Enloe of Great Falls has and, family man that he is, was so taken with the comely, shapely cedar ...

GRAND FORKS-Crossing a portage in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness one day more than 20 years ago, Steve Hawthorne decided he was done lugging his 84-pound fiberglass canoe between wilderness ...

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 ...

Seventeen-month-old Noah Holsinger of Sanford loves being outside, and he actually went for his first canoe ride when he was seven days old. Sort of. It was December, but his father Curt Holsinger ...

Fifteen-year-olds Jacob Heninger and Will Strahl pulled a honey-colored, wooden canoe from the second story of a red barn on Thursday, then gently lowered it to their fellow Boy Scouts from Troop 362.

FLUSHING-- Gary Debevec clearly remembers the day he became interested in building cedar-strip canoes and kayaks. One of his two daughters, Nicole, asked him if he was willing to go to her college ...