In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance?

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

A recent study reveals stunning new details about Scandinavia's oldest boat, including a fingerprint preserved in tar and ...

The last wooden boat built at John’s Bay Boats is this 34 footer, being planked with 1-inch cedar for shop owner Peter Kass, ...

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself had few pine forests. While it is possible that the pine pitch made its ...

FALMOUTH — Many days, the soft rasp of sandpaper, the clinking of paintbrushes in jars, and the knocking of wood pieces being fit together mark the hours as faithfully as the ship's bell clocks that ...

Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns ...

Arguably there are no two names more closely related to Pilot Boat design and construction in the United States than Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and Ray Hunt Designs. Together the dynamic duo has ...

GEORGETOWN – Something went wrong and it got worse. Father and son, Yang and Yang Scofano II, shrugged while inspecting their 12-foot Carolina Bateau rowing skiff they’d built in nearly four hours ...