When I first stepped into the Maverick Boat Group’s P2 factory in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first thing I noticed was what was missing. In most other boatbuilding facilities I have visited, I’ve been ...

In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that wooden boat ...

The process of building a large sportfishing boat is not a fast one. From the day a contract is signed to the day the owner shoves off from the dock the first time, two years can easily and quickly ...

The Center for Conservation Leadership (CCL) at Lake Forest Open Lands Association is teaming up with The Urban Wilderness Program to offer a boat building workshop at Cristo Rey St. Martin College ...

Starting this semester, Beaufort County Community College is offering a new degree in boat building for students. Program leaders say the course will help create a pipeline of local talent to an ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...