Last week, on our ocean, a dozen students had come from as close as North Beach and as far away as the Aleutians and paid $600 for a week of lessons from this master of wooden boat-building. They ...

Two wooden tall ships, the kind you might find sailing the rough seas and shooting cannons in blockbuster pirate flicks. But sailors need not worry.

The Wyoming held the distinction of the largest wooden boat of its time, but this wasn't necessarily a good thing. Here's the story behind the ship.

WANCHESE, N.C. (AP) — World War II had broken out, German submarines were prowling the Atlantic Coast, and the American war effort needed ships - lots of them, large and small. Steel and ...