''WoodenBoat'' is an American magazine written for owners, admirers, builders, and designers of

wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin th ...

en boats. The company's headquarters is located in

Brooklin, Maine Brooklin is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 827 at the 2020 census. History Brooklin was originally part the larger town of Sedgwick. Brooklin broke off and formed its own town in 1849. A few weeks later, t ...

. It was founded in September 1974 by Jon Wilson, a former boatbuilder. Wilson sold his Alden

ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fr ...

, using $11,000 of the proceeds along with $3,500 from a loan to start the magazine. On January 1, 2022, ''WoodenBoat'' was acquired by Matt Murphy and Andrew Breece, the editor and publisher, respectively, of the magazine.

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* Boating magazines Transport magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1974 Magazines published in Maine Bimonthly magazines published in the United States 1974 establishments in Maine {{transport-mag-stub