Racing yacht designers are under similar pressure to save weight as their counterparts in aerospace manufacture, not only in the larger structural components, such as hull and deck, mast and spinnaker ...

Standing at the lathe in the woodshop she shares with her dad, Christina Fuller presses a chisel against a spinning stick of teak. She’s shaping a spoke to just the right dimensions to fit in the ...

Today’s makers of fishing boats and gear suffer from iPhone syndrome: They want to make the on-water experience as seamless and fun as playing with a new app. And in many ways, they’re succeeding.