In a time when most boats are built of fiberglass or other man-made materials, Peter Kass still does it the old way—building lobster boats and yachts from wood, the way he was taught when he was ...

The wooden boats also, famously, ride like 1937, ... who made it clear that they preferred “gentlemen’s runabouts” to Wood’s aircraft-engine equipped torpedoes.

The Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival returns this month to the banks of the Tchefuncte River, ... “I have shelves and shelves of the little boats they made as participants in the contest.

But there were plenty of obstacles: Wooden boats today represent far less than 1% of all boats made in America, and there were just a few makers left in the country. What’s more, Gallagher didn ...

Sweeney specializes in restoring wooden Chris Craft boats, which were made in Algonac, Mich., and Lyman boats, which were made in Sandusky, Ohio.

The 35th annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show, ... The boats are made of corrugated cardboard with some tape and paint. Some boats completed the paddle out in the Sampit River and others sank.

And any boat made of wood is unique simply because the tone and grain of each piece of planking is unique. Grand Craft President Patrick Gallagher at the company’s new 25,000-square-foot manufacturing ...

GEORGETOWN — Longtime Georgetown Wooden Boat Show participant Tommy Graham may know the secret behind the event's nearly four-decade run. "Boats that are made of wood have souls, and other boats ...

“These metal boats, which are made of thin iron plates joined together, are a response to recent raids on wooden boat factories,” says Sophie-Anne Bisiaux. In December 2023, ...

The tail end really does look like a highly polished, varnished, wooden boat. Made with Cuban mahogany, the Rolls is believed to be the only one of its kind with a body built by the Berlin-based ...