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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 Upper ...

Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats on Tuesday morning celebrated a groundbreaking for its new Wagner Education Center, which has been six years in the planning. The 9,600-square-foot building will ...

KITTERY, Maine — The initial goal of the Wood Island Life Saving Station Association was to preserve the century-old Kittery site previously manned by predecessors of our modern-day Coast Guard. It’s ...

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 ...

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Urban Boat Works is a volunteer-run program in Camden, New Jersey, that teaches middle school and high school students how to build a boat. The program started in 2009 and many ...

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>> AS ROUTE 1A WINES FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER, WE MAKE OUR FINAL STOP IN AMESBURY ALONG THE MERRIMACK RIVER AT LOWELL’S BOAT SHOP. >> WE ARE ON AMERICA’S OLDEST OPERATING BOAT SHOP. >> THE LOCAL ...

Maine’s boatbuilding tradition goes back centuries, some would say back to the early 1600s building of the Virginia on the banks of the Kennebec River near what is today Popham Beach. Boatbuilding was ...

Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns ...