The Rick Pratt School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Aransas continues the tradition of the fishing village’s iconic all-wood Farley Boats. “Anything nautical made out of wood we’ll help you build,” ...

Assistant Vince Gordon, of Bigfork, works with boat building student, Susan Timmons, of Kalispell, on her sailboat during a Montana Wooden Boat Foundation boat building class in Lakeside. (Mackenzie ...

Take a tour of a school that is preserving the craft of wooden boat building. The Les Cheneaux Islands are a chain of 36 protected islands along the Northern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper ...

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 ...

CHATHAM -- As thick fog enshrouds a long, weathered pier, an old salt in a yellow slicker climbs aboard a 47-foot ketch with a keel of Douglas fir. Beside him a metal marine railway extends out of ...

The Harbor Historical Association of Georgetown presents the 32nd Annual Wooden Boat Show on Friday, Oct. 15; Saturday, Oct. 16; and Sunday, Oct. 17. This year’s show will feature one of the nation’s ...

PORTSMOUTH — The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke, a partnership between Piper Boatworks of Rye and Strawbery Banke Museum, has announced its 2017 calendar of programs and workshops, including the launch ...

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Retired Marine Tom Brandl stood on the shore of the Elizabeth River rallying his troops. “You don’t have to worry,” he said to the adolescents clad in flip-flops and life vests that were growing ...

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Urban Boat Works is a volunteer-run program in Camden, New Jersey, that teaches middle school and high school students how to build a boat. The program started in 2009 and many ...

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 ...

PORT HADLOCK — Betsy Davis, the executive director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, is planning to retire. Davis, who has been with the nonprofit since 2014, is planning for her last ...