COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Jerry Gilbreath swears his boat "Jefe" actually runs better than it looks. And Gilbreath, 61, made every effort to make sure Jefe, Spanish for chief or leader, looks perfect.

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 ...

On a bright and clear summer day, Jeff Garnsey is making his way along the St. Lawrence River in his antique wooden boat, Goat Locker. She’s a 32-foot-long sea skiff made by Trojan in 1969. Wooden ...

NORFOLK, Va. — When you walk into the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop right on Ballentine Boulevard in Norfolk, the heat in the room is almost as enveloping as the sounds of hammers, sewing machines, ...

Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats turned into a small, niche for aficionados who love the look and feel ...

Hulls constructed of willow give canoes a Mississippi flavor. Classes meet two nights a week for six weeks. Canoes are 15 feet and weigh about 42 pounds. Avid paddler John Carter of Jackson never ...

Blake Hosli isn’t in the business of building boats — and certainly not wooden boats. In fact, he isn’t in the marine industry at all. He’s an electrical engineer. But when Hosli joins a group of old ...

YORK, Maine — The 1965 sloop was launched into York Harbor a new vessel, renamed Cedar and restored by a man known as one of the area’s remaining boat-making masters. Paul Rollins watched as a crane ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pull up to a dock in a mahogany speedboat, burnished like a Stradivarius under layer upon layer of varnish, classic engine rumbling like far-off thunder, and you are connecting with a potent brand of ...