Living in Seattle — the only major U.S. city apart from Madison built on an isthmus — Jay Larson was frequently near the water. “Growing up I spent a lot of time on the water either in boats or ...

HOLLAND, MI -- When Captain Darryl Holtz hauls the Wine Seller III down the Lakeshore, he has to leave extra time at the gas pump. Not for fuel or snacks, but because he knows he’ll get a least a few ...

There are few more classic sights in boating than a small mahogany runabout splitting the serene waters of a lake in some picturesque locale—be it northern Italy, Lake Tahoe, or a pristine stretch of ...

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 ...

Down on South Lake Union's Waterway No. 4, a friendly group of salty dogs is carrying on a tradition that anyone who ever floated a log on a pond as a kid can appreciate -- and keeping alive Seattle's ...

When then 12-year-old Sarasota native son George Luzier started building boats in the backyard of his Sarasota home, it is unlikely he knew he would become a legend in the world of wooden boat design ...

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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 ...