Nine new, hand-built boards are being launched in separate events this week in Milwaukee. The first of those boats was ...

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 ...

The boats were made with guidance from the All Hands Boatworks program. It teaches teens how to build wooden boats. Boat launch at Discovery World, Milwaukee On Tuesday, students from El Puente ...

In the past, a fisherman had no other choice but to build their own. The constant need for repairs made it necessary to learn about the architecture of wooden boats. This learned knowledge was ...

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.

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 ...

Green, who grew up in New York, knew nothing about building boats. But, armed with a set of plans and a bunch of salvaged wood, he and a group of students set out determined to build one.

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 ...

What makes this project really interesting is that he used wood from trees he grew and cut down right in his own backyard. Robin Bradley took two years to build his 19-foot boat, naming in honor ...