My Canoecraft

By Peter Feindel I think it was the fall of 2002 when, on my to a restaurant in Mississauga, Ontario, I passed by an industrial unit with large ...

By Alick Burt My Canoecraft story began some years ago now. At the time I was a cabinetmaker and had my own workshop in a rented building quite ...

By Barry Scammell Two winters ago I began my Bear Mountain cedar strip canoe journey – building the strongback structure to hold the molds for m...

By WW Toups I first became interested in building a strip canoe while looking at and issue of Southern Living Magazine.  In the background of on...

By Richard Berling My CanoeCraft Story is about a personal journey that started in 1959 when our Boy Scout Troop went on a weeklong trip on the ...

By Barry T. Demmers For Christmas, that year, my sons gave me the plans for a Rob Roy Solo canoe and a gift certificate for supplies. I lost my ...

By Jim Dodd I was born to build canoes.  Raised in a small Iowa town, surrounded by corn fields, and a river running through it. I spent a lot o...

By Jackson Larrabee I am 17 years old, and LOVE wood and canvas canoes. I attended Camp Wabun, as my father did 25 years before me. He bought tw...

By Ben Weeks Several Years ago after I had the delightful and almost Zen like experience of building  both one of Ted's canoes and a kayak, I ga...

By Dick Bolhuis One day, on our holiday in Germany, after having a burn-out, we saw many plastic canoes coming by. And at that moment I knew, ...

By Bob Arthur When I was a kid, we used my Dad's already vintage ribbed cedar strip canoes. We were building a concrete wall along our Lake Onta...

By Paul B. Shay It was Christmas of 2005 that Sister Kathy gave me a book on canoe construction. I remember thumbing through it with interest bu...