As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many enjoyable hours cruising the beautiful rivers and lakes located just a few miles from my home. Last winter, while the ice thickened and ...

FLUSHING-- Gary Debevec clearly remembers the day he became interested in building cedar-strip canoes and kayaks. One of his two daughters, Nicole, asked him if he was willing to go to her college ...

LAKE FLORIDA -- Dr. Dean Lindquist, D.D.S., traveled hundreds of miles to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, to learn how to make a hand-held planer sing. Dr. Dean Lindquist, D.D.S., explores the waters ...

Real people and the boats they love. Mark Vore’s cedar strip kayaks are sold as floating works of art through a gallery. Growing up in the prime boating area of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

Synthetics and composites have plenty of benefits, but they’ll never compete with the look of wood. This Cedar Strip Wooden Kayak from Justin Charles ($16,000) manages to provide the best of both ...

GRAND LEDGE -- When Allen Deming decided to opt out of corporate life in 2006, he seized upon an idea: why not build a pair of cedar strip kayaks, one for himself and one for his wife. He had grown up ...

If you want to insult someone who has built a cedar-strip canoe, kayak or rowboat, say it's too delicate for fishing and hunting. Folks often assume something so gorgeous can't handle rough stuff.