Part 1. : Small boat design and classification. The origins of small craft design; Fundamentals of small boat design; The classification of small boat types -- Part 2. : Fundamentals of boatbuilding.

It had been at least 10 years since I launched a flat-bottomed boat. Years of fishing seem to push every angler toward high-end fiberglass and electronics. However, the second I found myself back on a ...

Have you ever looked at the hull on a boat and wondered why it is shaped the way it is? Why do some boats have flat bottoms and others have V-shaped undersides of various angles and contours? Let us ...

OCALA — While visiting a glass bottom boat display at the Silver River Museum complex recently, Darrell and Jim Buchanan looked through old photos and reminisced about a time, when, as youngsters, the ...

When exploring various types of watercraft, you may have come across the terms “drift boat” and “raft.” There are three primary commonalities of drift boats and rafts. The first is that they are both ...

Arguably there are no two names more closely related to Pilot Boat design and construction in the United States than Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and Ray Hunt Designs. Together the dynamic duo has ...