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 ...

Wood had been the material of choice in building boats ever since man first put out to sea. But most wooden boats were subject to rot and worm damage and building wooden boats was costly since each ...

PORT HADLOCK — Students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding have started building two 26-foot sailboats in what the school is calling the Twin Boats project. About 18 students are working ...

SEATTLE -- The smell of wood, sawdust under the fingernails and pride in workmanship all come in the process of building wooden boats. Josh Anderson, the Boatwright at the Center for Wooden Boats, ...

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With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...

IT’S TIME for the 43rd annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Wooden boats are an integral part of our history. Native Americans started building wooden boats thousands of years ago and we have ...

DELTAVILLE, Va. (AP) - One of the best things about the Deltaville Maritime Museum on the Middle Peninsula is the way it quite literally keeps the region’s boat-building history alive. John England is ...

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 ...

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 ...