“So you’re starting to see what I mean about all the sanding?” says Ron Pellinen, my wooden canoe-building mentor, when I walk into his shop on a brisk March morning in Northern Ontari ...

The watercraft brand has been around since the 1800s, when it first started churning out traditional wood canoes in a Maine town on the banks of the Penobscot River. Since then, it has grown into ...

A business that manufactures wooden canoe and kayak paddles can be established right from a homebased garage workshop, and requires only a small investment into woodworking equipment to get going.