Clint Chase, from Saco, Maine, knows how to make a really great boat. “The first thing I do is design a really fantastic boat, and then I figure out how to kit it,” he says, in the video above.

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 ...

Follow this guide for how to build a wooden rowboat that is easy to construct, transport, and store. When my family and I packed up our possessions and moved across the country some years ago, it ...

Part 1. : Small boat design and classification. The origins of small craft design; Fundamentals of small boat design; The classification of small boat types -- Part 2. : Fundamentals of boatbuilding.