In a time when most boats are built of fiberglass or other man-made materials, Peter Kass still does it the old way—building lobster boats and yachts from wood, the way he was taught when he was ...

The stitch-and-glue method is a simple boat building technique popularized in the 1960s that creates a solid, one-piece hull, unlike most other wooden boats, which start with frames and bulkheads ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wooden powerboats were once a mass-production business, but that declined dramatically when fiberglass came along. Yet there are still a number of builders of these mahogany classics still out there.

Nordlund went on to build wooden boats and cruise the seven seas, as well as travel all over the world teaching people how to build wooden fishing boats through the FAO, the United Nations Food and ...

Nine yards in the U.S. and Europe are turning out classic wooden boats hand-built with old-school techniques but with modern upgrades.

But the island of Qeshm off Bandar Abbas is also home to the much older tradition of building wooden boats, around 30 of which were resting at low tide in the coastal village of Guran. This small port ...