The kayak is a twist on the traditional canoe knife, which comes with double bolsters and a blade coming out of both ends. What RoseCraft has done here with its kayak is make a single-bladed knife ...

For 30 years, the only thing I’d ever used my Gerber Knife for was to spread peanut butter. But when that rope came tight, it saved my life.

The canoe can now be turned over and the knife used to cut the foam mould from the finished hull. Watch out for the screws sticking out of the concrete -- just trim them off with bolt cutters.

A group traveling by canoe from Wekweètì, N.W.T., to the Tłı̨chǫ Annual Gathering repaired a damaged canoe using spruce gum, a hot knife and a can of beans.