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 ...

ROSKILDE, Denmark — For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of Northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents. In December, the UN’s ...

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 ...

Last summer, during a Scout Troop sailing adventure on the Great Lakes, I learned a whole lot about wooden pleasure boats. That led to my article last August about the modern-day makers of these ...

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The 37th annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show will have some new attractions joining the usual roster of events and exhibitors.

Pricey wooden boats—those once leaky, maintenance-hungry, floating mahogany works of art—are making a comeback. Last weekend's 41st Annual Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show in Hessel, Mich ...

The final wooden fishing boat to work from Hastings beach is to be saved after thousands of pounds were raised towards its ...

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 ...

Madisonville will celebrate the 35th annual Wooden Boat Festival Saturday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 18.

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 ...