This summer’s boat building workshop at the Connecticut River Museum will feature the CRM 12, an adapted Bevin’s Skiff kit suitable for beginner boat builders. Courtesy photo ...

Build a McKenzie River Drift Boat. You can learn the process and skills necessary to build a McKenzie River Drift Boat or any similar small skiff or dory from a kit April 21 to April 25 at the ...

DIY packraft offers outdoors enthusiasts an affordable, lightweight boat Thu., Dec. 14, 2017 The DIY Packraft, seen here, folds up into a small, lightweight bundle that’s easily packed into a ...

The boat building workshop, a partnership between the Detroit Community Sailing Center and the Detroit River Stories Lab out of the University of Michigan, is an attempt to try something more ...

Each boat has a theme, and the festival concludes when a parade of the DIY boats and a competition to see which are seaworthy. Teams must drop their boats into the river, ...

Jefferson Parish is expected to have a boat launch in Gretna for emergency-response vessels by this time next year, thanks to a $1 million federal grant obtained through the U.S. Coast Guard.

Keith Steele did other things to help spread public awareness of the McKenzie River boat. In 1976, he was invited to Washington D.C. for the Bicentennial's American Folklore Festival, where he ...