The Edwards family has two kids, three cars -- and eight boats. Four of those boats are sleek, wooden kayaks the family built from scratch in their Calvert County garage. Well, not quite from scratch ...

John C. Harris, owner of Chesapeake Light Craft, stands in the showroom where some of his company’s kit-built boats are displayed. He is standing near the “Peeler Skiff,” a 15 foot kit powerboat.

Ron Majewski, 53, of Erie, is the kind of guy who goes all in. Case in point: When he and his wife, Debbie, talked about investing in a couple of kayaks, he didn’t simply scour the sporting goods ...

In seventh grade shop class I once made a birdhouse that turned out so terribly that my mother thought it was a flower planter. Since then things really haven't improved much for me, at least not in ...