ELVERSON - As a professional engineer Doug Berg spends a good portion of his day at a desk, but he is by no means foreign to working with his hands. He counts among his handyman accomplishments the building of a hen house and the hanging of cedar shingles on the summer kitchen of his Elverson home. Yet now Berg has added to his extracurricular portfolio a task which many other amateur craftsmen would consider both enviable and unfathomable – he restored an antique boat.

It was a task he had first set for himself a few years ago, which has its origin in simply picking out a spot on a map.

The state of Maine has been a memorable family vacation location for Berg, and kayaking expeditions have among the favorite of those memories.