Cold Bay to Unalaska is nearly 200 miles. By plane, it takes about an hour. By kayak, it's nearly a month. Akio Shinya made the trip -- with three others -- in 24 days. "I am old man, 69-years-old," ...

A 29-year-old woman has completed part of her around the world trek by kayaking the Aleutian Chain. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

Buffeted by wind, shoved by swells, John Weed and I paddled to Fort Ross -- a Russian colonial outpost on the Sonoma County coast, now a state historic park. It was our third straight day of rough ...

For the past three years, a British woman has been trying to travel around the globe using only her own strength. Sarah Outen has biked through China and rowed the Pacific Ocean. Now, she’s in the ...

On a sun-splashed afternoon last month, senior Seth Bich took the 15-foot-long Aleutian-style kayak he built last semester out for a test run on Nolt's Pond down the road from Garden Spot High School.

MARTINEZ — Every other day for more than 30 years, Steve Kaspar can be seen out at the marina with one of the kayaks he built. As he sits snugly in his kayak, a wave of calm envelops him as soon as he ...

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 ...

WHEELER – You may have noticed them suspended from rafters in front of the Nehalem Bay Kayak Co., in Wheeler – sleek, semi-transparent water craft which seem to hearken from another culture, another ...