For many boaters there is no better way to get close to the true, wild Florida than to glide silently among the tropical growth in a canoe. And for some wet-and-wild athletes, no craft is as exciting ...

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 ...