Brian Keen credits his uncle for getting him into boats. He owned five or six, and as Keen entered college, his uncle’s interest grew—and so did Keen’s. That interest, mixed with Keen’s love of old ...

In the run-up to summer boating season, the crews at Irish Boat Shop are busy behind the scenes keeping wood boats primed to live on the waves forever. To understand the importance of a couple of ...

BoatArt has spent much of the summer restoring the wooden hull of the 1906 Minnehaha passenger steamboat Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named Jeep.

For most people, the idea of sailing on a wooden boat seems almost, well, archaic. After all, there are all those new, shiny fiberglass boats with more buttons and gadgets than the latest VCR. But for ...

Curtis Bauman likes doing things the “old way.” And, apparently, so do his clients, owners of antique wood boats in dire need of some TLC. Combining his passion for woodworking and boating, Bauman has ...

Planers sit on a work table as Glacier Park Boat Co.'s Tyrel Johnson measures a plank for the transom of a 1957 Chris Craft sedan cruiser. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake) ...

“Coronet” — a Schooner built in 1885 has made its way from its home in Rhode Island to Mystic Seaport Museum in southeastern Connecticut to begin a three-year restoration to return it to its former ...

The wooden skiff drops in the water to great cheers from the crowd. The students-the vessel's builders and now navigators-will crew the 14-foot craft on her maiden voyage through the Les Cheneaux ...