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 ...

Imagine six samurai and their soft-spoken master set loose on the Sausalito waterfront with chisels, rasps, whet stones and screaming power saws. Wooden boatbuilding is staging a comeback, but the few ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The art of building small wooden boats is being used to help young, at-risk adults turn their lives around. They are serving as apprentices in a boat ...

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 ...

From the first time our ancestors answered the call of the sea, the race to build a better boat has been on. The oldest vessel in existence is a 10,000-year-old, hollowed-out tree at the Drents Museum ...

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 ...