PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — The first of at least 30 abandoned, derelict boats that have been a blight on the Anacostia River for decades is likely to be removed sometime this winter, according to ...

Martin can see the law coming from a nautical mile away. Sometimes, he leaps into a small sailboat and paddles off. His home is three boats tied together and anchored in the Trout River on ...

With support from the Wa Sung Community Service Club and other Chinatown organizations, Councilmember Abel Guillén secured $195,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to finance the ...

MEDINA, Ohio - It's not always easy to come up with the right combination of junk to make a really good junk boat. Discarded plastic kiddie pools often quickly take on water. Duct tape doesn't always ...

EVERETT — For months, they hid along the out-of-sight edges of the Snohomish River, bunched together on the riverbank of misfit boats. A cabin cruiser and two sailboats, in various stages of decay, ...

BETHEL ISLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- An old paddle boat that sank in the Delta over the weekend isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Those who patrol the waterways say it's an example of a larger problem that ...

CHARLESTON - Boats came up in pieces, breaking apart as the track hoe lifted. Sludge and pluff mud poured from the sterns. Charleston Marine Services on Tuesday began the dirty work in a cumbersome ...

OAKLAND — After years of heavy use, the city’s famed Junk Boat is getting an overhaul. The City Council last month approved a community request to fund repairs to the large wood and metal junk boat ...

Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbor was home to thousands of fishing families known as "the floating people." They lived on junk boats or sampans — small, flat-bottomed wood boats about 4.5 to 7 meters in ...

You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat — tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight — is one of the ...