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 ...

I have spent the majority of my professional career on fiberglass and/or composite boats, so I have to say, those are my choice. Weight, strength, durability, lower maintenance and the inability to ...

Until the mid-1930s, most small boats were made of wood. A few were made of aluminum or steel, but those were mostly work boats. Planked, molded from strips or sided with plywood, wooden boats were ...

In all of motorized travel there is surely nothing as pure as an old wooden boat plowing the blue waters of Lake Tahoe. Gar Wood, Hackercraft, Chris-Craft, Century. The names are as elegant as the ...

Wooden-boat owners are some of the most passionate people in boating. That should come as little surprise, as the amount of care these boats require is significant. The best-kept mahogany vessels need ...

Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — With more than 150 boats packed tightly into Point Hudson Harbor and 50 more on the grounds of the Northwest Maritime Center, deciding how to go about seeing as many of them as ...