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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a city bounded by a mighty river, there is another waterfront. But the Cooper River is in some ways more the heart of Camden than the broad Delaware. The Cooper is an unseen and ignored artery ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that wooden boat ...

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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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — When you walk into the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop right on Ballentine Boulevard in Norfolk, the heat in the room is almost as enveloping as the sounds of hammers, sewing machines, ...

But the art of designing and building these vessels, done entirely by hand, is under threat. Fewer people order wooden boats since plastic and fiberglass ones are cheaper to maintain. And young people ...