DAVID "Shorty" Routh, who once owned 15 sailboats at the same time, admits he can get downright obsessive about his lifelong hobby. But when the 35-year-old Routh announced plans to cruise aboard a ...

Earl Brockway, whose simple plywood boats were used around the world, died early Wednesday. Mr. Brockway, 78, was credited with designing and building sturdy boats that enabled even the poorest ...

It’s probably a dream common to many groups of friends among the Hackaday readership: go away together to a sunny island some time in the summer, take a load of beer and maybe a BBQ, and build ...

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 ...

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 ...

with how it turned out. When local industrial designer Michael Downes heard that the Oregon Manifest Design Challenge was back again this year, he knew he wanted to enter. Downes, a former bike ...

There must be something in the soil at Point Farm in Warren, Rhode Island. On this land, Steve Clark has reaped everything from traditional dories to C-class catamarans to International Canoes, and ...

Dan Jacobs, left, and Marie Stauber apply resin to the bow of the wooden boats that they and others are building at the Scow Schooner hanger in Anahauc Saturday. The event is part of Family Boat ...

The Woodlands' David "Shorty" Routh, who once owned 15 sailboats at the same time, admits he can get downright obsessive about his lifelong hobby. But when the 35-year-old Routh announced plans to ...