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,” ...

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 Egan Maritime Institute is launching a pilot youth boat building program, offering Nantucket middle school students the ...

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 ...

PORT HADLOCK — Lower Hadlock is going through a kind of renaissance with the growth of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding and other ventures. “It’s a cool working waterfront district,” said ...

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 ...

D’IBERVILLE, MS (WLOX) - Biloxi has a rich tradition of wooden boat building, but there aren’t many master boat builders on the Gulf Coast who are build the floating works of art. In D’Iberville, ...

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, ...

GEORGETOWN — David Mauney’s handmade boats invoke a sense of awe that comes from a place beyond the detailed craftsmanship. The boats and their owners, David and Lisa Muaney, survived Hurricane Helene ...

Wooden boats stands at Agios Isidoros boatyard on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, Greece, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The art of designing and building these vessels, done entirely by hand, is ...

GEORGETOWN — The Georgetown Wooden Boat Show enjoyed one of its most successful years in 2023. Organizers used phrases like “amazing turnout” and “exceeded our expectations” to describe the Oct. 21-22 ...