The idea of building your own boat in your backyard sounds both quaint and rewarding. Boatbuilding is also a project that, for a lot of hobbyists, could be quite doable with some decent skills and the ...

They say that hope floats. But with an event like Montgomery Whitewater’s Build Your Own Boat Competition that old saying should probably be, “You’d better hope it floats over rapids.” The competition ...

A look at building and running a homemade jet-powered boat, focusing on custom engineering, extreme speed, unpredictable ...

A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...

This column was originally published in January 2021. Believe it or not, a homemade boat weighing 33 tons was once launched unto the Minnesota River at North Mankato and floated all the way to New ...