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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Roger Crawford, owner of Crawford Boat Building in Marshfield, his work comes down to three things: “Passion and craftsmanship and motivation to make every boat better than the last." Fiberglass, ...

When I first stepped into the Maverick Boat Group’s P2 factory in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first thing I noticed was what was missing. In most other boatbuilding facilities I have visited, I’ve been ...

At first blush, the entry by Lund boats of New York Mills, Minn., into the fiberglass boat market after a generations-long love affair with aluminum would seem to be counter-intuitive, at least in the ...