From small dinghies to bowriders, the recreational boating world is filled with all types and sizes of watercraft. The hulls of these boats are made up of an internal network of frames that extend ...

BENTONVILLE -- Wild Bill's got an urgent call for old aluminum canoes. Artist Nancy Rubins needed five more to finish Monochrome II, her sculpture on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American ...

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RAYMONDVILLE — It wasn't a blank canvas that inspired artist Bob Parker. It was the dented 41-year-old aluminum canoe in his back yard that beckoned. "It's an old canoe I got from Montgomery Ward in ...

Lynn McAdams remembers his first crisis in canoe-making, back when he sold the boats on the banks of the Clark Fork River in Missoula. “I got rid of everything I had when the first oil embargo came on ...

In the 1970s, canoeing was not a well-known way of spending one’s time. Even more fringe was whitewater canoeing in open, unwieldy aluminum canoes that were difficult to control, took to rocks like ...