Tradition meets modernity with these local businesses on the water Bombora creates sleek, minimalist life jackets, while Lady Bug Boats builds nostalgic and economical wooden boats.

The wooden skiff drops in the water to great cheers from the crowd. The students—the vessel’s builders and now navigators—will crew the 14-foot craft on her maiden voyage through the Les Cheneaux ...

It's a sunny Saturday morning and downstairs in the Cape Cod Maritime Museum’s woodworking shop, a small team of middle school kids are building a wooden skiff. Sunlight beams through a window ...

In the mid-90s, a group of Alexandria, Minnesota, residents wanted to highlight wooden boats and their craftsmanship, believing they were essentially works of art. So, they converted an old city ...

Wooden boats—which gave way to fiberglass for the same reason automakers abandoned actual timber in favor of the fake kind—are also being celebrated at the Audrain. There are carriages, too.

The 26th Annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show is held this weekend where boat builders have four hours to complete a wooden skiff and race it across the river for the championship.