When it comes to boatbuilding, Peter Kass would rather build wooden boats by hand

There is something timeless, at least on the coast of Maine, about a boat made of wood. Crafting those boats requires skills ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

Building the better wooden boat

ill Evert and Jason Brownlee wanted a business that would work in their two passions — fly-fishing and carpentry. What they’ve built is French Broad Boatworks, a new business on the banks of one of ...
Hartford Courant

The best model boat kit

Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Building and restoring classic wooden boats on Martha's Vineyard

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 ...
komonews

Center for Wooden Boats celebrates $6.5 million expansion

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, ...
CBC.ca

The heyday of wooden boats may be in the past, but this museum is keeping the tradition alive

Jerome Canning, master boat builder, stands inside the workshop shed of the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. (Rafsan Faruque Jugol/CBC) Even though boats made of wood are no longer ...
SFGate

Building boats the way they used to / Group of young carpenters turn their skills and passions to making wooden vessels the old-fashioned way: one at a time

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...
Peninsula Daily News

Wooden boatbuilding school building ‘Twin Boats’

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Building wooden boats like Broome's lost pearl luggers is an art sailing against the tide

Hundreds of wooden luggers once crowded every part of Broome's shoreline, making it the biggest pearl-shelling fleet in the world. A century later and none remain, so is wooden boatbuilding a lost art ...