The idea of building your own boat in your backyard sounds both quaint and rewarding. Boatbuilding is also a project that, for a lot of hobbyists, could be quite doable with some decent skills and the ...

They say that hope floats. But with an event like Montgomery Whitewater’s Build Your Own Boat Competition that old saying should probably be, “You’d better hope it floats over rapids.” The competition ...

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 ...

This column was originally published in January 2021. Believe it or not, a homemade boat weighing 33 tons was once launched unto the Minnesota River at North Mankato and floated all the way to New ...

BROADALBIN — Summer is here, and Broadalbin-Perth Jr./Sr. High School students took full advantage of the sunny weather with a homemade cardboard boat race at the Great Sacandaga Lake on Wednesday.