“It was the only wood one we had, and so I had to spend the first winter with the old guy named Jeep, who was a retired fisherman, who they hired to put a new bottom on this boat,” Sweeney said.

Wooden boats are a part of New England's maritime tradition, and Lady Bug Boats is keeping the tradition alive by making economical flat-bottom skiffs. Ken Martin Jr. based the design of the boat ...

Why do ships need to be a certain color on the bottom? The red color itself is ... While ships have become faster since the times of wooden boats, there are still many ships that remain slow ...

GEORGETOWN — Longtime Georgetown Wooden Boat Show participant Tommy Graham may know the secret behind the event's nearly four-decade run. "Boats that are made of wood have souls, and other boats ...