Wooden boats typically took longer to build and required ... Peter Kass said all of his 65 to 70 boats have been built without drawn plans. ... Fishing boat orders are basically non-existent ...

The wooden boats also, famously, ride like 1937, a boating experience devotees believe is as endangered as the giant panda. “It is night and day,” explains Erin Badcock ...

Blake Hosli isn’t in the business of building boats — and certainly not wooden boats. In fact, he isn’t in the marine industry at all. He’s an electrical engineer. But when Hosli joins a ...