Even though there is still a substantial amount of wooden yacht construction and restoration out there, wooden hull construction has pretty much gone the way of the mastodonts. To find a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS IS ONE OF OURS HERE. THIS IS A 28 FOOT YAWL WE BUILT FOUR OF THESE. CRUISING THROUGH VINEYARD HAVEN HARBOR WITH NAT BENJAMIN IS LIKE LISTENING TO A PROUD FATHER INTRODUCE YOU TO HIS PROGENY. THIS ...

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 ...

DELTAVILLE, Va. (AP) - One of the best things about the Deltaville Maritime Museum on the Middle Peninsula is the way it quite literally keeps the region’s boat-building history alive. John England is ...

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SEATTLE -- The smell of wood, sawdust under the fingernails and pride in workmanship all come in the process of building wooden boats. Josh Anderson, the Boatwright at the Center for Wooden Boats, ...

Iranian captain Hassan Rostam has braved the Strait of Hormuz aboard his lenj for four decades, but now watches with despair as the wooden ships are being replaced by cheaper, faster boats. The sturdy ...

Justin Anderson, from the left, Jaz Sipila, Oliver Swenson and John Finkle work on various features for a traditional, 27-foot-long Scandinavian rowing boat June 1. The vessel is modeled after a ...

DULUTH — A group of local volunteers has been working hard to construct their version of a Viking boat, circa A.D. 1045. And they aim to sail the vessel to the Two Harbors tall ship festival in early ...