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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...