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SPRING LAKE, Mich. (WOOD) — Building your own boat may not be as difficult as you think. A man in Spring Lake wants to help make that simpler for people through his business. “The main objective is to ...

D’IBERVILLE, MS (WLOX) - Biloxi has a rich tradition of wooden boat building, but there aren’t many master boat builders on the Gulf Coast who are build the floating works of art. In D’Iberville, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The handiwork begins around 4 p.m. at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory, where dozens of students arrive after finishing their day at school. They will spend the next two-plus hours hammering, ...

HOLLAND, MI -- When Captain Darryl Holtz hauls the Wine Seller III down the Lakeshore, he has to leave extra time at the gas pump. Not for fuel or snacks, but because he knows he’ll get a least a few ...