ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- John Harris knows exactly how quirky his company is. Businesses that sell boats are all over the place, especially around the Chesapeake Bay. But a business that sells ...

Even to the most stalwart do-it-yourselfer, the idea of building a boat may seem daunting. After all, the traditional boatbuilding arts — lofting, steam-bending planks, joining lapstrake, etc. — ...

Marcy Consalvo was 9 when his parents gave him a boat-building kit. More than 70 years later, he is still building boats, from clipper ships to Gloucester schooners, and for 20 years he’s been helping ...

There they were, one with a boat-building business and one wanting to hold a boat-building class. Would they ever connect, or would they simply pass like ships in the night? Of course they would get ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. Several states away from here, a tractor trailer load of Styrofoam buoyancy billets floats in Chesapeake Bay in Alexandria, Virginia. The material, donated by The Dow Chemical Company, ...

FORMER head teacher Richard Wood from Worcester first thought about building a boat so that he could enjoy a creative activity with his two teenage sons. They all thought it would be fun to row ...

Boat builder Jerome Canning stands next to two wooden punts. He built the one on his right by hand, while the boat on the left is a recreation of the boat on the right made through computer-aided ...