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 ...

Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of ...

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...

I ventured to the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock on Wednesday to meet with its executive director, Pete Leenhouts. The Boat School, as it is commonly referred to, was founded ...

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In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that wooden boat ...

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Urban Boat Works is a volunteer-run program in Camden, New Jersey, that teaches middle school and high school students how to build a boat. The program started in 2009 and many ...

TRAVERSE CITY: Red8Boatworks, a Traverse City-­based community boat building non­profit, has recently launched a pilot project teaching wooden boat building and math remediation as an after­school ...

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 ...

Michigan’s wood boat building history comes to life every summer in Great Lakes shoreline communities. It’s a time when quaint harbor towns celebrate the state’s boating heritage with wooden boat ...