When the Hinckley Co. was founded, in 1928 in Southwest Harbor, owner Henry Hinckley’s focus was on servicing the local lobster boats as well as the yachts of summer residents on Mount Desert Island.

Cape Fear Community College will offer two new programs, surgical technology and fiberglass boat building, for students in the fall. The programs were started after businesses suggested the two ...

DARTMOUTH — The last of Dartmouth's boat-building firms is alive and well at the end of Shipyard Lane, overlooking Padanaram Harbor. Well-known for five decades of producing a line of classic catboats ...

Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats turned into a small, niche for aficionados who love the look and feel ...

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“Lake Union used to be surrounded with boatyards,” laments Dave Mullens, a shipwright and instructor for Seattle Central Community College’s boat-building program. In the 1960s, he worked for one of ...

Holland’s boat-building heritage is highlighted in a new book by Geoffrey Reynolds, who is the Mary Riepma Ross Director of the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College. “Boats Made in Holland: A ...

Select a boat year and model below to get a valuation. Crawford Boat Building is a Massachusetts marine company constructing small vessels. Dedicated to building a modest fiberglass vessel since 1976, ...

Last fall I was walking along a Long Island Sound beach with my eight-year old son looking at driftwood. He asked me if we could collect some driftwood to build something with. This was the latest in ...

Select a boat year and model below to get a valuation. Crawford Boat Building is a Massachusetts marine company constructing small vessels. Dedicated to building a modest fiberglass vessel since 1976, ...