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.

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 ...

This June the waters of Lake Sammamish will see sailboats, Jet Skis and a fleet of unconventional watercraft — concrete canoes. The University of Washington will host the American Society of Civil ...

It's all about concrete marinas for a group of UMass Lowell students who loaded their 19-foot, 8-inch boat into a truck Monday morning, bound for an American Society of Civil Engineers contest in ...

The concrete boat on the shores of Bulingugwe Island on Lake Victoria. It has been in that position since 1978. PHOTO BY HENRY LUBEGA Little known Lwanga says despite the boat having been around for a ...

The town plans to install a new concrete boat launch ramp at the Greenwich Point Marina, and a boater hopes it avoids the problems that have plagued the three-year-old concrete ramp at its Grass ...

FORT WALTON BEACH — Frederick G. Hodgson passed away in 1917 at what today seems a tender age of 57, having attained high honors as a U.S. Army officer and earned the undying respect of his peers. "He ...

Oroville >> Construction crews were able to beat rising water levels on Lake Oroville to install a boat ramp at Bidwell Canyon. “It’s done. They got all the concrete poured or in place yesterday,” ...