EUREKA SPRINGS — Doug Powell came from a woodworking and sailing family in Maryland, sailing the Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic coast and the Caribbean. Still, he spent more than a quarter of a century ...

In seventh grade shop class I once made a birdhouse that turned out so terribly that my mother thought it was a flower planter. Since then things really haven't improved much for me, at least not in ...

Turning a pile of plywood into a wooden kayak requires a few common tools, the ability to follow instructions and sufficient space in your basement or garage. The online kayaking community abounds ...

John C. Harris, owner of Chesapeake Light Craft, stands in the showroom where some of his company’s kit-built boats are displayed. He is standing near the “Peeler Skiff,” a 15 foot kit powerboat.

Some people build model airplanes; others prefer to make furniture. Dan Thaler crafts kayaks. Thaler, who lives in Shrub Oak, will be on the cable television show "Handcrafted America," which follows ...

In 1966, 10 year old Gordon Bowley was watching a TV program about Inuit hunters using kayaks. Never having seen such a watercraft before, he asked his father if they could build one. So his dad found ...