Wilson founded WoodenBoat magazine in 1974 in a small off-the-grid cabin in Brooksville, with a focus on materials, design, and construction techniques and repair solutions related to wooden boats.

In addition to WoodenBoat, founded in 1974, the enterprise includes Professional BoatBuilder magazine, Small Boats magazine, the WoodenBoat School, the WoodenBoat Show and the WoodenBoat Store.

PORT TOWNSEND — The Wooden Boat Foundation and Wooden Boat Magazine has honored three men — Jim Blaiklock, Tim Nolan and Miguel Winterburn — with lifetime achievement awards for their work with wooden ...

In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine. He was immediately entranced. “I couldn’t shake the image of that ...

He earned the coveted Wooden Boat Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award. The late Sarasota marine surveyor Stan Lowe said in a 1985 article in Wooden Boat magazine, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — If maritime heritage really floats your boat, the 30th annual Wooden Boat Festival is bound to put wind in your sails and a song in your heart. With more boats than ever expected to be ...

Of 400 local purse-seiners vying for salmon, the Emancipator, a sleek 65-foot wooden boat built in 1918 by the Skansie Bros. of Gig Harbor, had finished among the top 10 boats for gross stock.