Blake Hosli isn’t in the business of building boats — and certainly not wooden boats. In fact, he isn’t in the marine industry at all. He’s an electrical engineer. But when Hosli joins a group of old ...

The Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival returns this month to the banks of the Tchefuncte River, and with it comes a stream of poignant memories for some festivalgoers, and a weekend packed with ...

Wooden boats aren’t in museums in Northern Michigan’s Les Cheneaux Islands, home of the first Chris Craft dealership in the world, they live on the water. Within the hidden bays and intimate ...

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 ...

The project took two years to complete and involved sourcing materials, steam-bending wood, and welding. Hart plans to take the boat with him to Syracuse University where he will study architecture.

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 ...