The Verano's mahogany hull required 10 pieces of wood painstakingly bent with hundreds of clamps to achieve its perfect ...

Rooted in tradition and skilled craftsmanship, this age-old industry now stands at a critical crossroads. As efforts ...

GLBBS is in a kind of "wood-boat mecca," according to Coates. The first Chris-Craft dealer in the world was established in a village about three miles west of the school in 1925.

In British Columbia and other parts of North America, says Fauvelle, fire pits were widely used by Indigenous peoples for boat building, including to create steam for bending wood—a traditional ...

They see their boats—the result of hundreds of hours of bending, gluing, sanding and varnishing—more like floating sculptures than production-line commodities.

Historically, steam bending has been most often used by wooden boat builders for shaping curved rib-like frames, by furniture builders for crafting swooping crest rails on chairs, and by luthiers ...

November 18, 2020 How Two Brothers From Vermont Turn Wooden Boats Into Floating Sculptures The Adirondack Guide Boat is fast, stable and beautiful, but takes ten times longer to build than a ...