Buying a factory-made canoe and kayak rack for a pickup can thin a bank account in a hurry. Invest a free Saturday and it's easy to build your own rack that slides easily into a truck bed. The $50 to ...

Trent Preszler gets on our scheduled Zoom call wearing a sweatshirt that reads “canoeist” — a detail that is either cheekily premeditated or entirely routine; I can’t tell which. He’s calling in from ...

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 ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Students in Scott Mandrell's model engineering class at Wydown Middle School in Clayton got an early start on summer last week as ...

Regardless of which playstyle you’ve chosen, it’ll only be a few minutes before you likely build your first boat. Just look for a small alter that has steps leading up to a conch shell-shaped opening.

A modern Stone-Age family used rock to live in, eat from, sleep on, write on . . . and, well, for almost anything that a dinosaur couldn’t be used for. So why not use it to build a canoe, too, and ...

NEWARK -- About three dozen students from four schools in the city took wooden canoes they crafted from blank pieces of wood, and caste them on the murky waters of the Passaic River this weekend as ...

Buying a factory-made canoe and kayak rack for a pickup can thin a bank account in a hurry. Invest a free Saturday and it's easy to build your own rack that slides easily into a truck bed. The $50 to ...