Lukas Hart built the 11-foot, 450-pound wooden boat, named "Lady Bird" in a nod to the school's Thunderbird mascot, as an ...

In a 1989 National Fisherman feature on a Tremblay yard, Charles Piatt covered Tremblay Net Boats, a boatyard specializing in ...

A few months ago, home editor Roy Berendsohn tried his hand boat-building, making a 10-foot dinghy using old Popular Mechanics plans from 1937, hand tools and a cramped garage.

I would like to see what this looks like after 6 months of Portland weather. Plywood boats involve a great deal of time and effort to paint/varnish/epoxy. They also require a lot of time to maintain ...

Earl Brockway, whose simple plywood boats were used around the world, died early Wednesday. Mr. Brockway, 78, was credited with designing and building sturdy boats that enabled even the poorest asp… ...

Students row boats at Colonial Lake, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Charleston. Students at a handful of Charleston County schools have spent the academic year building their plywood boats from scratch ...

The plywood work boat and fishing skiff created by the late Richard Earle Brockway of Old Saybrook would became part of Connecticut's maritime landscape. It is estimated that he built more than ...