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 ...

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.

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.

SUQUAMISH – For hundreds of years, canoes have been integral to the Suquamish tribe – the “people of the clear salt water” – and many other Coast Salish tribes. The canoes, carefully ...

In 2019, they reportedly built a dugout canoe from a Japanese cedar trunk, using replicas of 30,000-year-old stone tools. Paddling for 45 hours The canoe was paddled in the Ryukyu group from ...

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 ...

A 32-year-old father and two of his sons, ages 8 and 6, died after their canoe capsized on a small lake in the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge near Warden, Washington.

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, ...

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.

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.