On the Chesapeake Bay, the summertime months are made for cruising. From the crisp mornings of late spring through the hazy evenings of August, a boat on the bay is the place to be. And how better to ...

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever daydreamed about building a boat of your own, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has written boat-building articles that can help make that dream a reality. In these pages you can find articles on how ...

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 ...

The Annapolis Maritime Museum’s Box of Rain Build-a-Boat program, teaching area youth to construct a boat from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit, kicked off in January and will run through March.

INVITATION TO BOARD. IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO SPLURGE ON A LUXURY ITEM, WELL, FRANKLY, SOME DREAMS ARE A LITTLE BIGGER THAN OTHERS. IT’S CALLED THE BAG DAY CHASER 48 AND THE LUCKY FEW WHO ARE IN A ...