“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 ...

An old wooden boat built in 1934 is less than three months away from being fully restored and tying up in the water on Shem Creek. Several years ago, while Mount Pleasant resident Bob Graham was ...

Something as routine as walking his dog took Neil Gibbs down the slippery slope to classic boat ownership. On Saturday, after several years of restoring an old wooden boat, Gibbs, a long-time sailor ...

Last year I got a call from Dick Wagner, local patron saint of old wooden boats, with an offer that could have read, “Free Classic Boat, Moorage Included.” Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats had ...

Catch the rich glow of varnished mahogany in the morning sunlight, notice the sleek, simple lines, and – if you score an invitation – step into a wooden boat for an up-close experience, and very ...

GALESVILLE — Teri Nilsen was still hooked to the trapeze when the gust hit Gandalf, a sleek Chesapeake 20, as it tacked, forcing the sailboat to heel until it almost dipped its spreader in the water.

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 ...

He makes the old new again. Renewal, revival, restitution, resuscitation – call it what you may – the craftsman who makes the old new is Arthur Dean Guy. He calls what he does “restoration.” Guy is a ...

Sailing the bay, unlike being stuck in traffic, is meant to be savored. Consequently, the boat you take on the open sea should be more evocative than any run-of-the-mill form of transportation used to ...

More than 100 years have passed since a tinkerer named Christopher Columbus Smith strapped a cantankerous gasoline engine to a small wooden boat and set out across Michigan’s Lake St. Clair. Famed ...