Chesapeake Light Craft promises "free, unlimited technical support," and they mean it. Every day, six staffers who are experienced boat builders stand by to answer phone calls and e-mails.

John C. Harris, owner of Chesapeake Light Craft, stands in the showroom where some of his company’s kit-built boats are displayed. He is standing near the “Peeler Skiff,” a 15 foot kit ...

MATAPEAKE — Spring is here and the water is warming up along the Chesapeake Bay. Along with it, the schedule is warming up for Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit business, with the two-day ...

Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, will be holding the Big Little Boat Festival at Conquest Beach on the Chester River, on Saturday, May 17. The event is free and open to the public.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Spring Arts Festival is returning this month, bringing artists, music, craft beer and more for a fourth year.

Tap, tap, what’s that knocking on Chesapeake’s event schedule? Why, it’s the inaugural Tap Tap Craft Beer Festival, pouring local and Caribbean brewed libations Saturday on the gr… ...

Dreamboat At Chesapeake Light Craft, the emails pour in from folks who’ve built boats from kits created by the 26-year-old company.

At Chesapeake Light Craft, the emails pour in from folks who’ve built boats from kits created by the 26-year-old company. “ I’ve never started and finished anything so meaningful in my life ...