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 feel ...

It's a sunny Saturday morning and downstairs in the Cape Cod Maritime Museum’s woodworking shop, a small team of middle school kids are building a wooden skiff. Sunlight beams through a window ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An author, speaker, and executive, I explore the world's industries. That’s not to denigrate Hessel, which sits at the north end ...

Blake Hosli isn’t in the business of building boats — and certainly not wooden boats. In fact, he isn’t in the marine industry at all. He’s an electrical engineer. But when Hosli joins a group of old ...

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 ...

An atmospheric river is moving through western Washington and expected to dump 1-3 inches of rain. by Denise Whitaker SEATTLE -- The smell of wood, sawdust under the fingernails and pride in ...

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," ...

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In the run-up to summer boating season, the crews at Irish Boat Shop are busy behind the scenes keeping wood boats primed to live on the waves forever. To understand the importance of a couple of ...

Pricey wooden boats—those once leaky, maintenance-hungry, floating mahogany works of art—are making a comeback. Last weekend's 41st Annual Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show in Hessel, Mich ...

A Genoa City builder of custom, wooden power boats is testing the international marketplace with a new partnership with a boat dealer a half a world away. That may seem a long and somewhat unlikely ...

The Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival returns this month to the banks of the Tchefuncte River, and with it comes a stream of poignant memories for some festivalgoers, and a weekend packed with ...