{"id":120229,"date":"2022-04-15T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120229"},"modified":"2022-04-15T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:23:48","slug":"canastota-public-library-presents-boat-building-hobbyist-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120229","title":{"rendered":"Canastota Public Library presents boat-building hobbyist talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 6:30 p.m., Ron Walker will offer a presentation at the Canastota Public Library on boat building. A native of Canastota, Walker built his first kayak, with a little help from his father, when he was a teenager.\u00a0 \u00a0He started building small boats as a hobby in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker will provide a PowerPoint presentation and talk about three different styles of boat construction.&nbsp; He will specifically speak about four different projects he has completed using these three building styles. The boats vary from 9 to 12 feet long.&nbsp; Walker uses various materials including fabric, wood and epoxy.&nbsp; Walker indicates that his boats are great for navigating Adirondack lakes and waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker grew up on Oneida Lake and attended Canastota Central Schools and Madison-Oneida BOCES in Verona.&nbsp; He then attended Mohawk Valley Community College.&nbsp; After college, Walker worked for more than 35 years in various building maintenance positions. He is self-taught in mechanical trades.&nbsp; Upon retirement, Walker moved to Woodgate to be closer to the Adirondacks and its beautiful waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canastota Public Library is located at 102 W. Center St., Canastota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 6:30 p.m., Ron Walker will offer a presentation at the Canastota Public Library on boat building. A native of Canastota, Walker built his first kayak, with a little help from his father, when he was a teenager.\u00a0 \u00a0He started building small boats as a hobby in 1987. Walker will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}