What's durable, light, and lends itself to making small boats? Aluminum, and that lightness is particularly important in these days of hunting for fuel economy. Here's a report from boatTEST: Aluminum ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 17-foot aluminum canoe was stolen or blown away by heavy winds Sunday from a yard in the 40000 block of North Lake Drive in unincorporated Antioch, police reports said. The Grumman canoe is valued ...