Feb. 4—BLOOMER — Bill Hable was 46 when he embarked on a project intended to fill his retirement with joy. The Bloomer resident, an engineer by trade, planned to build a 41-foot wooden schooner that ...

Six years ago, a Massachusetts man started working on his dream. Stephen Dentte, of Granby, is using New England lumber, including trees planted by his great-great-grandfather more than 100 years ago, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The replica of the “Seneca Chief” — the boat known as the first to open the Erie Canal — is inching closer to setting sail. “We wanted to build it on the sight, we wanted to ...

Nestled in the shadows of downtown, adjacent to a row of rustic-looking, time-worn grain mills in Buffalo’s Ship Canal, Mike Weekes sat cross-legged on a floating wooden platform, toiling away on his ...

Teenagers are making boats using the wood from her grove installation at Madison Square Park, and the artist is happy that the work is seeing a new life. By Zachary Small Maya Lin’s acclaimed “Ghost ...

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The construction of the replica of Governor DeWitt Clinton’s 73′ packet boat – the boat that traversed the Erie Canal to take part in the Wedding of the Waters ceremony – is considered “a real Buffalo ...