Catch the rich glow of varnished mahogany in the morning sunlight, notice the sleek, simple lines, and – if you score an invitation – step into a wooden boat for an up-close experience, and very ...

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, ...

CAPE MAY CITY — The experts told Jimmy Klotsas to just let the old boat go. One boatyard wanted $200,000 to restore it. Another refused to lift Tuna, an old-plank fishing boat made out of angelique ...

“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” – Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) “Rat, in The Wind in the Willows” (1908) FRISCO – Firm believers in ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — How do you take apart a 19th Century boat that's been covered in mud for more than 200 years? Very carefully, of course. Actually, it's plank by plank. At the downtown base of ...

CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — The sole survivor from a scallop boat that sank off the coast of New Jersey says a wooden plank saved his life. Jose Luis Arias says he jumped overboard when the Lady Mary began ...

Wood taken from the historic warship HMS Victory is to be used to help build a nine-metre (30ft) boat as part of a nautical art project. The wood has come from the port bow section of the warship's ...

Brian Keen credits his uncle for getting him into boats. He owned five or six, and as Keen entered college, his uncle’s interest grew—and so did Keen’s. That interest, mixed with Keen’s love of old ...

CAPE MAY, N.J. – The sole survivor from a scallop boat that sank off the coast of New Jersey says a wooden plank saved his life. Jose Luis Arias says he jumped overboard when the Lady Mary began ...