Catch the rich glow of varnished mahogany in the morning sunlight, notice the sleek, simple lines, and – if you score an invitation – step into a wooden boat for an up-close experience, and very ...

CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — The sole survivor from a scallop boat that sank off the coast of New Jersey says a wooden plank saved his life. Jose Luis Arias says he jumped overboard when the Lady Mary began ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — How do you take apart a 19th Century boat that's been covered in mud for more than 200 years? Very carefully, of course. Actually, it's plank by plank. At the downtown base of ...

Hundreds of wooden luggers once crowded every part of Broome's shoreline, making it the biggest pearl-shelling fleet in the world. A century later and none remain, so is wooden boatbuilding a lost art ...

Brian Keen credits his uncle for getting him into boats. He owned five or six, and as Keen entered college, his uncle’s interest grew—and so did Keen’s. That interest, mixed with Keen’s love of old ...

An atmospheric river is moving through western Washington and expected to dump 1-3 inches of rain. by Denise Whitaker SEATTLE -- The smell of wood, sawdust under the fingernails and pride in ...

CHATHAM -- As thick fog enshrouds a long, weathered pier, an old salt in a yellow slicker climbs aboard a 47-foot ketch with a keel of Douglas fir. Beside him a metal marine railway extends out of ...