As boats go they often are overlooked, or at least have been in recent years, as evidenced by the ebb and flow of consumer wants and demands. But perhaps that is changing. Solo canoes and more ...

Anyone who knows anything about boats—specifically canoes or kayaks—knows the name Old Town. The watercraft brand has been around since the 1800s, when it first started churning out traditional wood ...

A worker builds one of the original wood-framed canoes in the early days of Old Town. In 1857 Henry David Thoreau and a guide from New England’s Penobscot Nation, Joseph Polis, took a round-trip canoe ...