PORT HADLOCK — Students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding have started building two 26-foot sailboats in what the school is calling the Twin Boats project. About 18 students are working ...

Last fall I was walking along a Long Island Sound beach with my eight-year old son looking at driftwood. He asked me if we could collect some driftwood to build something with. This was the latest in ...

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 ...

Great Lakes Boatbuilding Company has been producing small wood boats since 1985. The shop is run by expert boat builder Mike Kiefer who is currently building stock dinghy's for yachtsmen and Whitehall ...

Take a tour of a school that is preserving the craft of wooden boat building. The Les Cheneaux Islands are a chain of 36 protected islands along the Northern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper ...

The Milone family's Norwegian-style sailboat project, seen Wednesday, May 26, 2021, is well underway at the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Alex Berry, ...

CEDARVILLE – Curls of pale-brown wood shavings fall to the floor as Gus Bell pulls a plane across a piece of African mahogany. He checks its shape, peering at it closely. Then he lays the tapered ...

Catch the rich glow of varnished mahogany in the morning sunlight, notice the sleek, simple lines, and – if you score an invitation – step into a wooden boat for an up-close experience, and very ...

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GEORGETOWN — David Mauney’s handmade boats invoke a sense of awe that comes from a place beyond the detailed craftsmanship. The boats and their owners, David and Lisa Muaney, survived Hurricane Helene ...

GEORGETOWN — The 36th edition of the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show isn't expected to be much different from last year’s event, but that’s part of its appeal. Although small additions help to keep the ...

KITTERY, Maine — The initial goal of the Wood Island Life Saving Station Association was to preserve the century-old Kittery site previously manned by predecessors of our modern-day Coast Guard. It’s ...