Though wood-and-canvas canoes look great and paddle even better, few people have bothered to build them since the early 20th century. Read 5 Steps - To build a wood canvas canoe. Featured in the ...

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, ...

The wooden hull by itself is weak, but the two layers of fiberglass make the canoe extremely strong, lightweight and waterproof. No ribs are needed, no canvas covering, and no caulking.

It was that original Native American boat design that inspired a man by the name of A.E. Wickett when, in 1898, he started building a similar wood-and-canvas canoe as a side business for the Gray ...

While wood/canvas canoes and wood snowshoes may be thought of as old-fashioned and inferior to the current high-tech products, when they are properly maintained they are functional, historic and ...

When an old, damaged wood and canvas canoe was donated to Tennessee Valley Canoe Club, Board Director BG Smith decided to fix it up. He planned to organize a team of volunteers and, hopefully ...

The grayed ribs of the canoe lay in the tall grasses — discarded, forgotten, abandoned. My husband Andy stumbled upon the remaining frame of a wood canvas canoe while working ...

It was no coincidence that 12 years after my first summer in Algonquin, I proposed to my girlfriend (and now wife) while on a canoe trip in Algonquin, camped on a small Island that I had used to ...

The canvas/wood canoe would eventually become eased out by today’s very durable and weather-resistant aluminum, fiberglass and Kevlar canoes.