As school carpentry projects go, Alton O'Connor's is pretty ambitious.The 17-year-old Berkeley Institute pupil is building himself a 13ft by 5ft fishing boat based on a design he downloaded from the ...

Watching carpenter Andy Stewart wield chisels and mallets and planks in the service of boats will make you ache with sadness for the lost craft. But then you hear Stewart talk, and you realize that he ...

There are many reasons a dozen people gathered two evenings a week this year in St. John’s to build a traditional Newfoundland boat, bending and clamping long planks of wood and handling high-strength ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A hands-on carpentry program for youth is underway at the Hudson River Maritime Museum Wooden Boat School. The six-week after-school class teaches youths 14 to 18 the fundamentals of ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A lifelong fascination with traditional east-coast fishing boats has inspired a carpenter from Kampung Beris Alor Pisang in Terengganu to craft miniature replicas that not only resemble ...

Installation view, ‘Mare Liberum: or, The Other Island’ at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before you ...