Feb. 4—BLOOMER — Bill Hable was 46 when he embarked on a project intended to fill his retirement with joy. The Bloomer resident, an engineer by trade, planned to build a 41-foot wooden schooner that ...

BLOOMER, Wisconsin — Editor's note: This story originally aired on KARE 11 in 2017. Both the article and video contain updated content. Bill Hable was still in his 40s when he settled on a grand plan ...

BLOOMER, Wis. – Bill Hable was still in his 40s when he settled on a grand plan for his retirement. He grabbed a chainsaw, cut down some trees and started building a boat. Hable figured the project ...

PORT TOWNSEND -- Dean Cummings and Marty Kemp spent most of the day working on the elegant curves of four floorboards so they would fit just so in the bottom of a skiff. "Four boards. All day. That's ...

In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that wooden boat ...

With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

Although Xcelerator Boatworks may be a relative newcomer to the list of Carolina boatbuilders, the company’s new 64-footer is drawing lots of attention. Joel Kauffman, the 31-year-old owner of ...