When my family and I packed up our possessions and moved across the country some years ago, it broke my heart to leave behind my Dad’s old boat. One year, he decided to build a wooden boat as a ...

It was a long time since anyone in my family had built a boat. The last was my Uncle Paul. He was a shipbuilder who learned his trade beginning at age 14 in Hamburg, Germany. Every morning, the ...

The BriefStudents from El Puente High School launched their hand-built boats on Lake Michigan on Tuesday, May 27.The boats ...

Traditional wooden boat building is a waning craft practiced by a diminishing few. Sager, 37, and his wife are a young couple doing their part to ensure it doesn’t die with the old masters.

Building a barrel boat is simple. All you really need is a plastic barrel, scrap wood, PVC pipe with end caps, a battery, and a trolling motor. Of course, you could go even further and build your ...

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 ...

Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats turned into a small, niche for aficionados who love the look and ...