Peter Kass still does it the old way—building lobster boats and yachts from wood, the way he was taught when he was just 17 ...

A group of students have been making waves as part of a project aimed at teaching traditional wooden boat building.

Les Gunderson built wooden boats at Sather Boatworks for 36 years, until 1995. This was an art as much as a science, and was a craft Les learned from his father, who was also a master boat builder.