There is a lot of love and patience in the FISH Boatworks in Cortez. You need it when repairing wooden boats that are old and have seen better days. Their volunteers spend hours, even years, building ...

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...

Until the mid-1930s, most small boats were made of wood. A few were made of aluminum or steel, but those were mostly work boats. Planked, molded from strips or sided with plywood, wooden boats were ...

From the RiverPlace Marina dock, Alan Thomle examines the fiberglass pleasure boats streaming up and down the Willamette River. They are markedly more modern than the boat moored at his feet. "This ...

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 ...

With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

It’s a tedious task, raising the dead. Tucked away in a fold of Ventura Harbor, a school of wooden hulks lies beneath gray tarps, waiting for Doug Shumpert to bring them to life again. A shipwright, ...

It's possible to overlook Paul Ketcham Jr.'s historic boatyard in Amityville, since it's a small one-man operation based in a house among modern waterfront homes. But the Paul Ketcham Boatyard could ...

A well-known member of Bristol Bay's commercial driftnet fleet is looking for a captain and crew to fish for salmon next year. Energy, enthusiasm and knowing how to fish are requirements. So is ...