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 ...

Every piece of wood has a story. Every tool. Every boat. And it’s the job of wooden boat builders Andy Stewart, James McMullen and Pat O’Hearn to make that story shine. “We’re just here to help people ...

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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,” ...

BOYNE CITY — Through four decades of building wooden watercraft, Van Dam Custom Boats has put priority on continuous improvement in how it approaches projects. As the Boyne City-based company prepares ...

The young boatbuilders needed to form an assembly line. “We’ve got to do some teamwork,” retired Marine Col. Tom Brandl told them. The students took their spots next to the hull of their sailboat, ...

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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 ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. – A “Model Opti Sailboat Build” class will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, April 21 and 22, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s Wooden Boat School on East ...

WEBVTT THE FIRST UP TONIGHT, FOR 10 YEARS, HE SAILED AROUND THE WORLD IN A WOODEN BOAT HE FEELS HIMSELF. >> THE HULL SMOOTH. THE CRAFTS FILLED. -- CRACKS FILLED. JOHN ...

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 ...

There are few more classic sights in boating than a small mahogany runabout splitting the serene waters of a lake in some picturesque locale—be it northern Italy, Lake Tahoe, or a pristine stretch of ...