ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- John Harris knows exactly how quirky his company is. Businesses that sell boats are all over the place, especially around the Chesapeake Bay. But a business that sells ...
Even to the most stalwart do-it-yourselfer, the idea of building a boat may seem daunting. After all, the traditional boatbuilding arts — lofting, steam-bending planks, joining lapstrake, etc. — ...
Jerome Canning, master boat builder, stands inside the workshop shed of the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. (Rafsan Faruque Jugol/CBC) Even though boats made of wood are no longer ...
There they were, one with a boat-building business and one wanting to hold a boat-building class. Would they ever connect, or would they simply pass like ships in the night? Of course they would get ...
Boat builder Jerome Canning stands next to two wooden punts. He built the one on his right by hand, while the boat on the left is a recreation of the boat on the right made through computer-aided ...
PORT ARANSAS — It was the summer of 2016 and newly retired gas industry executive Patrick Doran was living in Port Aransas, looking for something to fill his time. One day he happened upon the Farley ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. Several states away from here, a tractor trailer load of Styrofoam buoyancy billets floats in Chesapeake Bay in Alexandria, Virginia. The material, donated by The Dow Chemical Company, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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