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I agree that a location is a huge factor in finding a new home for a canoe, though I have helped facilitate interstate delivery of several canoes over the years (I travel around the Northeast and near Midwest in a large box truck with room for extra boats inside.). Taking it to a solo canoe rendezvous, like the one this weekend in Western Pennsylvania is also a good way to fi...

Where are you located? If you could make it to the western edge of Pennsylvania this coming weekend the Western PA Solo Canoe Rendezvous is going on Saturday and Sunday at Coopers Lake in Moraine Park. There are usually 6 to 8 dealers bringing demos and 60 to 100 canoes you can check out and try on the tiny pond. Or on the 3,255 acre Lake Arthur 5 minutes up the road.

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If you want to start out with slightly less effortful boat building, a skin on frame kayak or canoe could be a satisfying initial project for you.

Brian Schulz’ “Cape Falcon Kayaks” website and blog is a good intro. I also follow him on Facebook and he is currently posting videos of his progress building his first dinghy. His archive includes building multiple canoes a...

Humanpoweredboats.com shows pretty much all of the pedal powered boats that are/were built and manufactured over the past several decades. I’m sure that some people have built others, so if you know of them I would be very interested in updating the site with that info.

Regardless, t...

King of the Ocean,
I built a Pygmy Coho years ago and enjoyed the process. I paddled it for awhile and sold it for a little more than the kit cost. I went back to canoes.