Quebec canoe manufacturer Esquif debuts T-Formex, a moldable ABS material poised to be a lighter and more resistant alternative to defunct Royalex, RIP. Last summer, when plastics multinational ...

Lynn McAdams remembers his first crisis in canoe-making, back when he sold the boats on the banks of the Clark Fork River in Missoula. “I got rid of everything I had when the first oil embargo came on ...

PolyOne Corp. is stopping production of Royalex sheet — the king of custom plastics for many canoe enthusiasts — leaving almost all hull thermoformers and many paddlers up the proverbial creek without ...

Manufacturers suggest that you loosen the gunwales at the ends of your wood-trimmed Royalex canoe before you store it for the winter. This is supposed to prevent the Royalex from cold-cracking when ...

ROGERS, Ark.-When the supply of Royalex dried up years ago, Arkansas-based canoe makers who rely on the material found themselves up a creek without a paddle. But these days, with the help of Canadian ...

A large trailer was maneuvered into the snowy parking lot of Bell Canoe Works recently, and workers on ladders carefully loaded sleek, new canoes in rows five high and three deep. Ensconced in cotton ...

MISSOULA – Lynn McAdams remembers his first crisis in canoe-making, back when he sold the boats on the banks of the Clark Fork River. “I got rid of everything I had when the first oil embargo came on, ...