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 wooden boat ...

It’s BYOB at Montgomery Whitewater this weekend, and this week the park serves as the official basecamp for the Great Alabama 650 Paddle Race that stretches along the nation’s longest river trail.

They say that hope floats. But with an event like Montgomery Whitewater’s Build Your Own Boat Competition that old saying should probably be, “You’d better hope it floats over rapids.” The competition ...