Projects like building boats give kids an extended time away from their cell phones to actually do something with their hands.

He simply knows that wood is better in this application and actually in many other boatbuilding applications. John and Rick know this because they design, build, and operate boats, which is a ...

Read 5 Steps - To build a wood canvas canoe ... became a canoe rib. One boat requires 54 ribs; a fleet of five uses 270 of them. In order to make the ribs pliable enough to bend over the mold ...

A waterfront site to restore and build classic boats and yachts is being planned for Casino Road in Mystic along the Mystic River. The Planning and Zoning Commission recently approved a three-part ...

PORT HADLOCK — Betsy Davis, the executive director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, is planning to retire. Davis, who has been with the nonprofit since 2014, is planning for her ...

Les Gunderson built wooden boats at Sather Boatworks for 36 years, until 1995. This was an art as much as a science, and was a craft Les learned from his father, who was also a master boat builder.