A Japanese explorer with plans to sail a traditional tule reed boat from the Bay Area to Hawaii next year is building a prototype in Sausalito. Jin Ishikawa began construction earlier this month at ...

Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake has a lot of boats. There are canoes, antique motorboats, and Adirondack guideboats. There’s also someone whose whole job is working on them.

Fighting to stay afloat on what looks like a sea of chocolate milk, desperation begins to define a Tuesday morning in Thibodaux. My boat shakes uncontrollably, and I feel like a newborn deer learning ...

FRANKLIN, Tasmania, Australia (Reuters Life!) - On the banks of the Huon River, a small Australian boat building school is looking to the past to keep a centuries-old tradition of local boat-building ...

LOCKPORT, La. (WAFB) - This museum in downtown Lockport was full of activity when I visited nearly 12 years ago. People were here learning the art of boat building. It’s a tradition that was passed ...

The Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building finds itself at a crossroads. The museum, a treasure trove of traditional, hand-built boats used on the bayou through the years, some centuries old, ...

Maine’s boatbuilding tradition goes back centuries, some would say back to the early 1600s building of the Virginia on the banks of the Kennebec River near what is today Popham Beach. Boatbuilding was ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...

DRAKAIOI, Greece (AP) — On the forested slopes of an island mountain, early morning mist swirling around its peak, the unmistakable form of a traditional Greek wooden boat emerges: a caique, or kaiki, ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats after being inspired on a visit to Dorset. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her ...

VISITORS are invited to enjoy a free, behind-the-scenes look at traditional boatbuilding in action in Lyme Regis next month.