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 ...

AARGH A favorite event for all ages is the pond boat building activity. The model boat kits are put together, then sailed in our “pond”, then taken home.

In a time when most boats are built of fiberglass or other man-made materials, Peter Kass still does it the old way—building lobster boats and yachts from wood, the way he was taught when he was just ...

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 ...

The stitch-and-glue method is a simple boat building technique popularized in the 1960s that creates a solid, one-piece hull, unlike most other wooden boats, which start with frames and bulkheads ...

More than 30,000 visitors took in the 38th annual Wooden Boat Festival, Sept. 5-7, 2014. With more than 300 boats on hand, it's sort of a pilgrimage for me. A few boats were for sale, but selling ...

Georgetown will celebrate the 35th annual Wooden Boat Show Oct. 19-20 in its historic downtown along Front Street. It's expected to draw over 25,000 visitors.

Even though boats made of wood are no longer popular in the fishery, the Wooden Boat Museum in Trinity Bay is carrying on a heritage that dates back centuries, and which has involved countless ...