On the Chesapeake Bay, the summertime months are made for cruising. From the crisp mornings of late spring through the hazy evenings of August, a boat on the bay is the place to be. And how better to ...
NATIVE SON: From historic schooners to wartime patrol vessels, craftsman Paul Reck meticulously creates model boats in his ...
Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...
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 ...
Like Henry David Thoreau, David Snediker has constructed a simple dory — a flat-bottom boat with the side and bottom planks running lengthwise. Unlike Thoreau, Snediker will not take the boat for a ...
When I first stepped into the Maverick Boat Group’s P2 factory in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first thing I noticed was what was missing. In most other boatbuilding facilities I have visited, I’ve been ...
♪ DISTANCE DOES NOT LIMIT A DREAM. SOMETIMES, THE MORE DISTANT THE DREAM, THE MORE PASSIONATE THE DREAMER. >> IT IS THE MOST REWARDING THING I HAVE EVER DONE FOR SURE. >> HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS, 90 ...
Not many 12-year-olds can say they know how to build a real boat, but Kingsley McCrocklin can. He recently constructed an 8-foot row boat as part of a two-week class offered at the Lake Pontchartrain ...
You never forget your first boat. I was 12 when my dad told me that he would match whatever money I saved from cutting grass to buy a boat. By the end of summer, I had $400 to my name. So, we drove to ...