When he was around eight years old, John Martin watched his dad build a boat. It was a Sparkman and Stephens Blue Jay, a starter boat. But the Blue Jay is more than a vessel that his father crafted.

HOLLAND — Charlie McConkey went from the automotive industry to boat building, and he's never looked back. Although others at work didn’t enjoy wiring boats, McConkey, a 30-year-old Cedarville, was ...

Being landlocked between peach trees and desert doesn’t stop Jim Thayer from building boats strong enough to sail the ocean’s currents. “This is a terrible place to be building boats but I like it ...

CAMBRIDGE — “The Art of Model Boat Building” premiered in the galleries at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on March 4. This exhibition features area modelers who will display and discuss their work ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...

SCORED AN INVITATION TO BOARD. IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO SPLURGE ON A LUXURY ITEM, WELL, FRANKLY, SOME DREAMS ARE A LITTLE BIGGER THAN OTHERS. IT’S CALLED THE BAG DAY CHASER 48 AND THE LUCKY FEW WHO ARE IN ...

Murphy Marine Services, a Kerry-based boat building business, has plans to expand its work with naval services internationally. Based on Valentia Island, the company was founded by Fionan Murphy in ...

Select a boat year and model below to get a valuation. Crawford Boat Building is a Massachusetts marine company constructing small vessels. Dedicated to building a modest fiberglass vessel since 1976, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a sunny Saturday morning and downstairs in the Cape Cod Maritime Museum’s woodworking shop, a small team of middle school ...

The champagne bottle smashed on the bow, just like it was supposed to. The gleaming, red, 34-foot lobster boat slid down the rails into John’s Bay, just like it was supposed to. The boat floated free, ...

Gail McGarva quit her teaching job to build boats full-time. (Katielee Arrowsmith via SWNS) By Elizabeth Hunter A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats.