“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” – Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) “Rat, in The Wind in the Willows” (1908) FRISCO – Firm believers in ...

Lake Shore, Minn. – Minnesota has a deep and storied boating history, and a new and fascinating chapter is being written in the Brainerd Lakes area. This lake-rich part of the state has become home to ...

A single fingerprint in ancient tar is rewriting the story of one of Scandinavia’s earliest seaborne raids. Researchers have ...

On a bright and clear summer day, Jeff Garnsey is making his way along the St. Lawrence River in his antique wooden boat, Goat Locker. She’s a 32-foot-long sea skiff made by Trojan in 1969. Wooden ...

CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. (AP) – For many, wooden boats are the stuff of which dreams are made – instant time machines that take us back to the days when Humphrey Bogart and George Raft ruled the ...

Tom Danford stands on his 1963 Lyman boat, the Two Score. Antique wooden boats from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society will be docked Sept. 29-31 at Marietta Harbor.

Terry and Sue Hart took their 1961 Chris-Craft ski boat out for a run on Lake of the Ozarks on a recent weekday. Terry collects and restores vintage wooden boats. Brent Frazee [email protected] LAKE ...

HESSEL — A one-day antique wooden boat show is set to return to the Upper Peninsula's Les Cheneaux Islands after a one-year, pandemic induced hiatus. The Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show ...

Still, some old wooden Beetle Cats survived and brand spanking new ones continued coming out of the Beetle Cat Co. shop near New Bedford, Mass. While our family never owned one of these well-crafted ...

Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns ...