If you want to insult someone who has built a cedar-strip canoe ... This past month, though, I completed the boat's first major repair: re-caning its seats after they wore out from nine seasons ...

I was looking forward to paddling a boat that ... on wood-strip construction. I was going to build a stripper. With the wood-strip technique, thin strips of wood, usually cedar, are temporarily ...

Like many cedar-strip boat builders, Debevec uses the famed West System to coat the fragile wood of his boats with a thin, transparent layer of fiberglass cloth and epoxy, inside and out.