If you're looking for a fun and inexpensive project to keep you busy in the garage over the winter this clever single-sheet plywood canoe is a functional boat and an exercise in design all in one.

It’s probably a dream common to many groups of friends among the Hackaday readership: go away together to a sunny island some time in the summer, take a load of beer and maybe a BBQ, and build ...

What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter's glue, and then cover the ...

with how it turned out. When local industrial designer Michael Downes heard that the Oregon Manifest Design Challenge was back again this year, he knew he wanted to enter. Downes, a former bike ...

As you likely know, it's the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, undertaking the largest from-the-sea invasion in the history of human warfare and ...

Although they were barely able to get their vessel into the water, the "Root Beer Floats" were proud of their first attempt at building a plywood boat and fundraising for a good cause. (Lien Yeung/CBC ...

Two former Reading Blue Coat pupils aim to make history in a charity race across the Indian Ocean. James Thysse, from Odell Close, Lower Earley, and university pal Jamie Facer, from Maidenhead, are ...