ST. MICHAELS — The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a nine-day workshop to teach the basics of building a skin-on-frame kayak and Greenland paddle from Saturday, Sept. 24, to Sunday, Oct. 2, ...

Have you gazed down from a bridge at a narrow ribbon of river and wished you could plop a canoe onto it and paddle off into the woods? It’s hard to do if you don’t own a canoe. But Ralph Frese, the ...

Master canoe-builder Al Gustaveson has a new wish. “I want to paddle more canoes than I build,” says the owner of Northwest Canoe Co. in St. Paul’s Lowertown. “I’ve been building boats since 1977.

For paddlers living in the big city, paddling trips are often reserved for long weekends and vacations. Rather than make the regular trek north to Algonquin, one Ontario paddler took matters into his ...

I am perched on a wooden jetty in front of my lakeside cabin, enjoying the warm autumn sunshine. I’m at Elmhirst’s Resort in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, a few hours north of Toronto. And it’s my ...

Growing up on a small island in Prince William Sound in Alaska, Maggie Fennell used to travel by baidarka, the cedar-framed kayaks covered with sealskin that her grandfather made. She also went ...