Every year, I see a proliferation of makeshift boats, sails aloft, plodding down big lakes and rivers. Canoe sailing is a great adventure and a wonderful way to make headway and combine a rest day in ...

Learning-by-doing, a museum geographer sets out to build an outrigger canoe. The values of the voyaging canoe translate into how to live on small, isolated islands—and, perhaps, how all of us may live ...