Paddling my dugout, the Bog Bumper, made from a pine log, on Squam Lake, New Hampshire. The paddle is one of my "Bobcat Paddle" designs. It's made of black walnut, and I call it the "Black Pearl".

My pirogue, the Cherbie Sue, on the River Raisin, southeast Michigan

The Cherbie Sue, laden to the gunwales, on launch day

My birchbark canoe, the Muskrat, made under the tutelage of Chippewa Indian Ron Paquin, in Cheboygan, northern Michigan

Paddling the Muskrat on Lake Anjigami, Ontario, Canada