I'm trying to figure out why I have spent the prettiest days of spring in my garage messing with fiberglass, plywood and epoxy instead of enjoying the sunshine. A 12-foot skiff is involved. It has ...

DAVID "Shorty" Routh, who once owned 15 sailboats at the same time, admits he can get downright obsessive about his lifelong hobby. But when the 35-year-old Routh announced plans to cruise aboard a ...

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As Water Rat noted in The Wind in the Willows, “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” If you want to know how to build a boat, MOTHER’s ...

Last summer, during a Scout Troop sailing adventure on the Great Lakes, I learned a whole lot about wooden pleasure boats. That led to my article last August about the modern-day makers of these ...

with how it turned out. When local industrial designer Michael Downes heard that the Oregon Manifest Design Challenge was back again this year, he knew he wanted to enter. Downes, a former bike ...

It’s probably a dream common to many groups of friends among the Hackaday readership: go away together to a sunny island some time in the summer, take a load of beer and maybe a BBQ, and build ...