THE 25-FOOT CEDAR canoe Jared Fennell is building as a senior project for the 2010 Paddle Journey was not the only Aleutian-style craft at the Northwest Maritime Center last weekend. Tucked up in the ...

Lizz Wagner is passionate about her ongoing research and work in the construction of a kayak. "This one works. It was already tested in water," said Wagner about her Aleutian Baidarka kayak. The love ...

The floor of George Dyson's workshop is crowded with the shells of kayaks in various states of completion. This is home to Dyson Baidarka & Company, where a renowned boat builder creates crafts of an ...

Growing up on a small island in Prince William Sound in Alaska, Maggie Fennell used to travel by baidarka, the cedar-framed kayaks covered with sealskin that her grandfather made. She also went ...

Kayaks were used throughout the North American Arctic and also in eastern Siberia for hunting sea mammals. The Alutiiq made baidarka, two man kayaks, for hunting and whaling. A prominent feature of a ...