Steel is scarce. Wood is not an option. And you need a boat now. These wartime circumstances drove innovation in all kinds of crazy directions, and one somewhat less crazy direction — concrete boats.

Auburn Career Center students are banking on making concrete boats float. Applying principles of math, science and design, teams of high school juniors in an architecture and project management class ...

Steel is scarce. Wood is not an option. And you need a boat now. These wartime circumstances drove innovation in all kinds of crazy directions, and one somewhat less crazy direction — concrete boats.

• "Messrs. Editors: With the hope of saving much trouble and expense to parties interested, I beg leave to say a few words through your columns: ... "Recruiting officers are, almost daily, bringing to ...

Back in 1972, folks hung the nickname "Noah" on John Grimsrud. It was a bit off the mark. John and Jane Grimsrud, both Superior natives, were building a 46-foot boat in the backyard of their Billings ...

In February, Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources partnered with TowBoatUS to sink a 52-foot cement boat in the Chesapeake Bay just north of Kent Island’s Love Point. We had some questions about ...

In an average high school physics class, Archimedes’ principle means that any object wholly or partly immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the ...