Assistant Vince Gordon, of Bigfork, works with boat building student, Susan Timmons, of Kalispell, on her sailboat during a Montana Wooden Boat Foundation boat building class in Lakeside. (Mackenzie ...

Wood had been the material of choice in building boats ever since man first put out to sea. But most wooden boats were subject to rot and worm damage and building wooden boats was costly since each ...

IT’S TIME for the 43rd annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Wooden boats are an integral part of our history. Native Americans started building wooden boats thousands of years ago and we have ...

DRAKAIOI, Greece (AP) — On the forested slopes of an island mountain, early morning mist swirling around its peak, the unmistakable form of a traditional Greek wooden boat emerges: a caique, or kaiki, ...

At the end of Little Island Way in Bass Harbor sits an unassuming, three-bay boat garage. The yard is filled with lobster ...

In a city bounded by a mighty river, there is another waterfront. But the Cooper River is in some ways more the heart of Camden than the broad Delaware. The Cooper is an unseen and ignored artery ...

In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that wooden boat ...

The Rick Pratt School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Aransas continues the tradition of the fishing village’s iconic all-wood Farley Boats. “Anything nautical made out of wood we’ll help you build,” ...

With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

HOLLAND, MI -- When Captain Darryl Holtz hauls the Wine Seller III down the Lakeshore, he has to leave extra time at the gas pump. Not for fuel or snacks, but because he knows he’ll get a least a few ...