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. — ...

The Annapolis Maritime Museum’s Box of Rain Build-a-Boat program, teaching area youth to construct a boat from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit, kicked off in January and will run through March.

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 ...

CEDARVILLE – Curls of pale-brown wood shavings fall to the floor as Gus Bell pulls a plane across a piece of African mahogany. He checks its shape, peering at it closely. Then he lays the tapered ...

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 ...

PORT ARANSAS — It was the summer of 2016 and newly retired gas industry executive Patrick Doran was living in Port Aransas, looking for something to fill his time. One day he happened upon the Farley ...

CEDARVILLE – Curls of pale-brown wood shavings fall to the floor as Gus Bell pulls a plane across a piece of African mahogany. He checks its shape, peering at it closely. Then he lays the tapered ...