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,” ...

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 ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Milone family's Norwegian-style sailboat project, seen Wednesday, May 26, 2021, is well underway at the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Alex Berry, ...

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 ...

MADISONVILLE, La. — The annual Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival presented by the Maritime Museum of Louisiana returned to the banks of the Tchefuncte River over the weekend with fun for all ages. The ...