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, ...

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 ...

Wood had been the material of choice in building boats ever since man first put out to sea. But most wooden boats were subject to rot and worm damage and building wooden boats was costly since each ...

IT’S TIME for the 43rd annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Wooden boats are an integral part of our history. Native Americans started building wooden boats thousands of years ago and we have ...

CHATHAM -- As thick fog enshrouds a long, weathered pier, an old salt in a yellow slicker climbs aboard a 47-foot ketch with a keel of Douglas fir. Beside him a metal marine railway extends out of ...

In a city bounded by a mighty river, there is another waterfront. But the Cooper River is in some ways more the heart of Camden than the broad Delaware. The Cooper is an unseen and ignored artery ...

PORT TOWNSEND — When he was 17 years old, Dale Nordlund left Seattle’s Ballard High School and enrolled in a two-year, apprentice boat-building program on Lake Union. The year was 1947, boats were ...

Take a tour of a school that is preserving the craft of wooden boat building. The Les Cheneaux Islands are a chain of 36 protected islands along the Northern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper ...

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 ...

D’IBERVILLE, MS (WLOX) - Biloxi has a rich tradition of wooden boat building, but there aren’t many master boat builders on the Gulf Coast who are build the floating works of art. In D’Iberville, ...

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