Last fall I was walking along a Long Island Sound beach with my eight-year old son looking at driftwood. He asked me if we could collect some driftwood to build something with. This was the latest in ...

Imagine six samurai and their soft-spoken master set loose on the Sausalito waterfront with chisels, rasps, whetstones and screaming power saws. Wooden boatbuilding is staging a comeback, but the few ...

Innovator Hobie Alter revolutionized two sporting inventions that brought masses to the water – allowing more people to surf and glide along the ocean’s surface on small-scale sailboats. Alter, who ...