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 ...

Wooden boats aren’t in museums in Northern Michigan’s Les Cheneaux Islands, home of the first Chris Craft dealership in the world, they live on the water. Within the hidden bays and intimate ...

Wooden-boat owners are some of the most passionate people in boating. That should come as little surprise, as the amount of care these boats require is significant. The best-kept mahogany vessels need ...

A quiet start to this creation by McClure (What Will These Hands Make?) gives little hint of the adventure to come. Old Wood Boat, up on drydock cradles in a yard, “remembers islands and a sea of ...

GEORGETOWN — The 36th edition of the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show isn't expected to be much different from last year’s event, but that’s part of its appeal. Although small additions help to keep the ...

Pull up to a dock in a mahogany speedboat, burnished like a Stradivarius under layer upon layer of varnish, classic engine rumbling like far-off thunder, and you are connecting with a potent brand 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.

The Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival returns this month to the banks of the Tchefuncte River, and with it comes a stream of poignant memories for some festivalgoers, and a weekend packed with ...

Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named Jeep. After graduating from St. Bernard’s High School in St. Paul in 1965, Tom Sweeney joined the U.S. Coast Guard ...