It’s been over five years since a Craigslist post advertising a well-used wood-canvas canoe grabbed my attention and started an addiction I cannot seem to shake. I spent the winter working on that ...

“So you’re starting to see what I mean about all the sanding?” says Ron Pellinen, my wooden canoe-building mentor, when I walk into his shop on a brisk March morning in Northern Ontario. Perched on an ...

PADDLING – Mike Elliott, author of “This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe,” will present a free program on wooden canoes, 7 p.m., tonight, Oct. 23, at Mountain Gear Corporate ...

ZANESVILLE – He values tradition, and it shows in his work. “We lived rurally growing up,” recalled Jason Hammond. “My friends and I were able to get out and mess around in the fields and woods riding ...

On a dead-end country road surrounded by rolling farm fields south of Middlebury, Scott Barkdoll builds and refurbishes wood and canvas canoes. His classic works evoke a simpler time of communing with ...