The Woodlands' David "Shorty" Routh, who once owned 15 sailboats at the same time, admits he can get downright obsessive about his lifelong hobby. But when the 35-year-old Routh announced plans to ...

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...

PORT HADLOCK — Students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding have started building two 26-foot sailboats in what the school is calling the Twin Boats project. About 18 students are working ...

Not many 12-year-olds can say they know how to build a real boat, but Kingsley McCrocklin can. He recently constructed an 8-foot row boat as part of a two-week class offered at the Lake Pontchartrain ...

It’s probably a dream common to many groups of friends among the Hackaday readership: go away together to a sunny island some time in the summer, take a load of beer and maybe a BBQ, and build ...

I'm trying to figure out why I have spent the prettiest days of spring in my garage messing with fiberglass, plywood and epoxy instead of enjoying the sunshine. A 12-foot skiff is involved. It has ...

with how it turned out. When local industrial designer Michael Downes heard that the Oregon Manifest Design Challenge was back again this year, he knew he wanted to enter. Downes, a former bike ...

DAVID "Shorty" Routh, who once owned 15 sailboats at the same time, admits he can get downright obsessive about his lifelong hobby. But when the 35-year-old Routh announced plans to cruise aboard a ...