ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- John Harris knows exactly how quirky his company is. Businesses that sell boats are all over the place, especially around the Chesapeake Bay. But a business that sells ...

Jerome Canning, master boat builder, stands inside the workshop shed of the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. (Rafsan Faruque Jugol/CBC) Even though boats made of wood are no longer ...

Even to the most stalwart do-it-yourselfer, the idea of building a boat may seem daunting. After all, the traditional boatbuilding arts — lofting, steam-bending planks, joining lapstrake, etc. — ...

There they were, one with a boat-building business and one wanting to hold a boat-building class. Would they ever connect, or would they simply pass like ships in the night? Of course they would get ...

Boat builder Jerome Canning stands next to two wooden punts. He built the one on his right by hand, while the boat on the left is a recreation of the boat on the right made through computer-aided ...

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 ...

FORMER head teacher Richard Wood from Worcester first thought about building a boat so that he could enjoy a creative activity with his two teenage sons. They all thought it would be fun to row ...