A worker builds one of the original wood-framed canoes in the early days of Old Town. In 1857 Henry David Thoreau and a guide from New England’s Penobscot Nation, Joseph Polis, took a round-trip ...

Old Town has been a Maine institution since the 1800s. We interviewed Ryan Lilly for a behind-the-scenes look at Old Town's rich history, and how it became the popular canoe and kayak brand it is ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

While this ePDL+ kayak is pretty top-of-the-line for Old Town, and definitely not cheap for a kayak, $6000 is a lot easier to swallow than $100,000 needed for most new, fiberglass, bass boats.

Thurlow and Stelmok were able to acquire some old canoe-building forms that had belonged to the notable E.M. White Company, a highly regarded Maine canoe builder from earlier in the 20th century.

As songs filled the air, canoers pulled up in cedar and fiberglass canoes alike, ready to eat, dance, sing, give gifts and camp for two days before continuing to their final destination at Alki ...

Native American canoe builder passes knowledge of craft down to students 02:20. A 3,000-year-old canoe has been discovered in a Wisconsin lake, the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday.

With a group effort helping to put the resources in place, a builder is working to replace a more than 50-year-old voyaging canoe that burned in the 2023 Lahaina wildfire by the end of this year.

Fibreglass canoes and boats are known to present superior long-term benefits in comparison to wooden ones. This includes better durability and low maintenance costs. Welcome, ...