The 2022 Hornbeck Boats exhibition told the story of hand crafted vessels made in Olmstedville, NY, and was on display at The TAUNY Center in downtown Canton, NY, February 19, 2022 – May 8, 2022. Peter Hornbeck started his boat building career by building kayaks before he designed open canoes. In the late 1970s, when he had all the canoe orders he could fill, he stopped building kayaks, but in the late 1990s he took them up again. He designed and built three models, two touring kayaks (the Huntress and the Wolfen) and a sea kayak he called Salar. He stopped building kayaks in the early 2000s to focus on the Classic and his New Trick designs.One of the boats on display was entitled Wolfen. It is owned by Olmstedville native Shirley Hewitt Ware who uses it for flatwater paddling. Its stability in adverse conditions appeals to her, and its light weight makes it possible to go it alone when her avid kayaker husband doesn’t come along.