Six years ago, a Massachusetts man started working on his dream. Stephen Dentte, of Granby, is using New England lumber, including trees planted by his great-great-grandfather more than 100 years ago, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The replica of the “Seneca Chief” — the boat known as the first to open the Erie Canal — is inching closer to setting sail. “We wanted to build it on the sight, we wanted to ...

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DULUTH — A group of local volunteers has been working hard to construct their version of a Viking boat, circa A.D. 1045. And they aim to sail the vessel to the Two Harbors tall ship festival in early ...

ELKHART — While some businesses are struggling to shake off the effects of the coronavirus, Bennington is looking to expand its boat-building capacity. The company announced Thursday that it is ...

They sawed, bent, clamped and hammered planks for months – building something that hasn't been built in Buffalo in at least 170 years. The Erie Canal has a new cargo boat. The 40 volunteers labored ...

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 ...

The construction of the replica of Governor DeWitt Clinton’s 73′ packet boat – the boat that traversed the Erie Canal to take part in the Wedding of the Waters ceremony – is considered “a real Buffalo ...

The oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia has yielded an unexpectedly intimate clue about the people who once rode it into battle: a partial fingerprint pressed into ancient tar. That tiny ...