Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake has a lot of boats. There are canoes, antique motorboats, and Adirondack guideboats. There’s also someone whose whole job is working on them.

FRANKLIN, Tasmania, Australia (Reuters Life!) - On the banks of the Huon River, a small Australian boat building school is looking to the past to keep a centuries-old tradition of local boat-building ...

The Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building finds itself at a crossroads. The museum, a treasure trove of traditional, hand-built boats used on the bayou through the years, some centuries old, ...

DRAKAIOI, Greece -- On the forested slopes of an island mountain, early morning mist swirling around its peak, the unmistakable form of a traditional Greek wooden boat emerges: a caique, or kaiki, the ...

LOCKPORT, La. (WAFB) - This museum in downtown Lockport was full of activity when I visited nearly 12 years ago. People were here learning the art of boat building. It’s a tradition that was passed ...

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 ...

Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns ...