Discover how to build a CO2-powered wooden toy boat from scratch in this step-by-step guide. Learn about buoyancy and propulsion concepts as we shape, sand, and paint a custom boat, integrate a CO2 ...

Until the mid-1930s, most small boats were made of wood. A few were made of aluminum or steel, but those were mostly work boats. Planked, molded from strips or sided with plywood, wooden boats were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Lake Shore, Minn. – Minnesota has a deep and storied boating history, and a new and fascinating chapter is being written in the Brainerd Lakes area. This lake-rich part of the state has become home to ...

ROWING CONTRARILY against the tidal current of American culture, I am here to argue the case for small boats. What I won’t do is thrash through the obvious — that small boats are less expensive to buy ...

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 ...