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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Down on South Lake Union's Waterway No. 4, a friendly group of salty dogs is carrying on a tradition that anyone who ever floated a log on a pond as a kid can appreciate -- and keeping alive Seattle's ...

There are few more classic sights in boating than a small mahogany runabout splitting the serene waters of a lake in some picturesque locale—be it northern Italy, Lake Tahoe, or a pristine stretch of ...

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HOLLAND, MI -- When Captain Darryl Holtz hauls the Wine Seller III down the Lakeshore, he has to leave extra time at the gas pump. Not for fuel or snacks, but because he knows he’ll get a least a few ...

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 ...

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, ...

>> AS ROUTE 1A WINES FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER, WE MAKE OUR FINAL STOP IN AMESBURY ALONG THE MERRIMACK RIVER AT LOWELL’S BOAT SHOP. >> WE ARE ON AMERICA’S OLDEST OPERATING BOAT SHOP. >> THE LOCAL ...

KITTERY, Maine — The initial goal of the Wood Island Life Saving Station Association was to preserve the century-old Kittery site previously manned by predecessors of our modern-day Coast Guard. It’s ...