A wooden racing boat caught fire on a canal in Thailand. Footage captured by Mit Lamyai and the Phiromsilp dock crew shows a speedboat engulfed in flames in Samut Sakhon on November 2. The owner, Tao, ...

A wooden drag boat burst into flames while cruising home along a canal. The vessel joined a race earlier that day and was being steered along the water by the pensioner Tao, 68, when it suddenly ...

I have seen at first hand the effort, cost and skill needed to have your glassfibre hull cut and polished by a professional, ...

This month, two legendary wooden yachts — and Transpac veterans — Chubasco, or “Chubby,” and Ragtime Rags, are both getting ...

The first racing shells, known as Lapstrake, or clinker boats, had hulls made from overlapping wooden planks called strakes. The hull is the shell frame, or main body, of the boat. George Pocock ...

"Hopefully it floats." Wooden Boat Challenge participants have four hours to construct a boat. Then, they compete with their boats in a rowing race. This year, three boats were constructed under ...

The tradition of racing was born because the first gig ... Cornish Pilot Gigs are 32ft (9.8m) long open wooden boats rowed by six crew and steered by a coxswain. There are now about 8,000 rowers ...