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 ...

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“Can you build me a 55-foot deadrise that can run 55 knots?” That’s what Jerry Murrell asked the crew of Composite Yacht located in Trappe, Maryland, on the famed Eastern Shore. Murrell loves the ...

MANITOWOC, Wis. - David Ross slips off his loafers and climbs aboard the giant boat floating on the Manitowoc River. Shoes can scuff the deep red onyx flooring on the Mirgab V, a 144-foot yacht built ...

Ritchie Howell’s appreciation of sportfishing boats and how they perform began on the water. “I loved offshore fishing,” he said. “I was obsessed with it.” When Howell was living in Virginia Beach as ...

When I first stepped into the Maverick Boat Group’s P2 factory in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first thing I noticed was what was missing. In most other boatbuilding facilities I have visited, I’ve been ...

Holland Custom Boats is building the vessel with the goal of breaking lobster boat racing speed records.

Balsa core is laid up into the hull of Innovation Yachts’ 2023 Ocean Tribute Award-winning LBV35 catamaran.The reinforcement is volcanic fiber (i.e., basalt), the matrix a room temperature-cured, ...