When he was 8 years old, Don Boehl loved to jump into big piles of sawdust. He and his father scavenged old wooden fruit boxes for white pine that could be made into World War I model planes. Boehl ...

It’s not a lost art, because the Giesler family never really stopped building small wooden pleasure craft. Once the norm in boat building in decades past, other firms building wooden boats moved on to ...

Jerome Canning, master boat builder, stands inside the workshop shed of the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. (Rafsan Faruque Jugol/CBC) Even though boats made of wood are no longer ...

SEATTLE -- The smell of wood, sawdust under the fingernails and pride in workmanship all come in the process of building wooden boats. Josh Anderson, the Boatwright at the Center for Wooden Boats, ...