Living the Canadian Dream
When you’re paddling a wooden canoe down a river deep in the Ontario wilderness, you can’t help but feel a sense of belonging that you wouldn’t quite get in a Kevlar canoe. I hope that my work here at Cook Craft will help you to appreciate nature the way I do, whether it be from the deck of a restored wooden Muskoka boat or from your seat in a wooden canoe. It’s about living the Canadian dream.
Living the Canadian Dream
When you’re paddling a wooden canoe down a river deep in the Ontario wilderness, you can’t help but feel a sense of belonging that you wouldn’t quite get in a Kevlar canoe. I hope that my work here at Cook Craft will help you to appreciate nature the way I do, whether it be from the deck of a restored wooden Muskoka boat or from your seat in a wooden canoe. It’s about living the Canadian dream.
Custom Canoes
Canoe Restoration
Canoe Restoration
I can bring your canoe back to its former glory with handcrafted and detailed canoe restoration.
Classic Boat Restoration
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Tumblehome:
The Film by Cook Craft
Take a journey with Brian Cook, a master canoe builder in Dwight, Ontario. His life hasn’t always been so idyllic. Against the backdrop of the interiors of Algonquin Park, Cook’s poetic narration explains why he gave up his work as a stem cell biologist and returned home to Canada to paddle.
Tumblehome features a hand built, ornate wooden canoe being sailed whilst the canoeist plays ethereal music on a hand built lyre — music that is used directly as the score. The natural imagery is accompanied by poetic quotes and musings from Deep Ecology Writer Annie Dillard. In these times of technological overstimulation many people are yearning to connect with nature, and Tumblehome inspires people to do just that.
Custom Paddles
Fiddles and Lyres
Whether I am crafting canoes or fiddles and lyres, I always have a quality finished product in mind.
Canvas Canoes
I would like to help you restore, repair or create your own one-of-a-kind canvas canoe.
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