Master boat-builder Kenny J ... 314 St. Mary St. Hebert will help his students build pirogues at the center every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for ten weeks beginning this weekend.

BATON ROUGE -- The pirogue, the proposed official boat of the state ... Robert Brown, teamed to build a pirogue in 2009. A few months later, Chaney said, the two set out on a 14-day voyage ...

The long and narrow Cajun canoe-like boats were made ... the Slidell area. The pirogue races began in Bayou Liberty St. Genevieve Landing in 1951 as a fundraiser to build a church.

The journey from Senegal and poverty to Europe and supposed prosperity takes seven days by fishing boat. The Pirogue spends only about an hour on open water, but that's enough to convey the risks ...