In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that wooden boat ...

BLOOMER, Wis. – Bill Hable was still in his 40s when he settled on a grand plan for his retirement. He grabbed a chainsaw, cut down some trees and started building a boat. Hable figured the project ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN — Louis Sauzedde loves to talk about building wooden boats. Whether the topic is corrosion caused by electrolysis or the different uses for white oak and red oak (more on that later), ...

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 ...

With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

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Pat Ball, owner of the Sarasota homebuilding company Ball Construction Inc., first met legendary local boat maker George Luzier when he was just 12 years old. Ball encountered Luzier at the Sarasota ...

BLOOMER (AP) — Bill Hable was still in his 40s when he settled on a grand plan for his retirement. He grabbed a chainsaw, cut down some trees and started building a boat. Hable figured the project ...