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 ...

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...

ill Evert and Jason Brownlee wanted a business that would work in their two passions — fly-fishing and carpentry. What they’ve built is French Broad Boatworks, a new business on the banks of one 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 ...

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TRAVERSE CITY: Red8Boatworks, a Traverse City-­based community boat building non­profit, has recently launched a pilot project teaching wooden boat building and math remediation as an after­school ...

With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

The McKenzie River's place in history is anchored by the fabulous redside trout fishing that once lured anglers from afar. But a case can be made that the McKenzie is actually better-known as the ...

Michigan’s wood boat building history comes to life every summer in Great Lakes shoreline communities. It’s a time when quaint harbor towns celebrate the state’s boating heritage with wooden boat ...

Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats on Tuesday morning celebrated a groundbreaking for its new Wagner Education Center, which has been six years in the planning. The 9,600-square-foot building will ...

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 ...