SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. – While most of the boats made these days are typically fiberglass, the beauty in wood simply can’t be beat. That’s the thought of the Traditional Small Craft Association in South ...

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 ...

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 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,” ...

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 ...

I ventured to the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock on Wednesday to meet with its executive director, Pete Leenhouts. The Boat School, as it is commonly referred to, was founded ...

Michigan’s wood boat building history comes to life every summer in Great Lakes shoreline communities. It’s a time when quaint harbor towns celebrate the state’s boating heritage with wooden boat ...

TRAVERSE CITY: Red8Boatworks, a Traverse City-­based community boat building non­profit, has recently launched a pilot project teaching wooden boat building and math remediation as an after­school ...

PORT HADLOCK — Betsy Davis, the executive director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, is planning to retire. Davis, who has been with the nonprofit since 2014, is planning for her last ...

While we New York landlubbers usually can’t get enough of our city, all of the high rises and horn-honking can get a bit exhausting. For those craving a quick escape, Bowen’s Wharf Newport Wooden Boat ...

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 ...

Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats on Tuesday morning celebrated a groundbreaking for its new Wagner Education Center, which has been six years in the planning. The 9,600-square-foot building will ...