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 ...

KOBUK RIVER — This fall and early winter I’ve been fixated on an old wooden boat. At villages and camps along the river, there are a surprising number of them, abandoned back in the willows, ...

HAYDEN, Idaho — StanCraft started building wooden boats almost 90 years ago. And while the tools are more advanced now, the construction process hasn’t changed much at all. “I have had builders that ...

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 ...

Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats turned into a small, niche for aficionados who love the look and feel ...

Somewhere along the way, Rinker Buck decided to live his adulthood differently. His 2015 book "The Oregon Trail" chronicled his epic 2011 journey along the route in a covered wagon. In 2016, Buck ...

On the desk before me rests the hull of a model of an American schooner, the Flying Fish, the original of which was constructed nearly a century and a half ago. The first Flying Fish was about 75 feet ...

I have spent the majority of my professional career on fiberglass and/or composite boats, so I have to say, those are my choice. Weight, strength, durability, lower maintenance and the inability to ...

The Balboa Yacht Club on Saturday welcomed the public to attend the 7th annual Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival, where nearly 40 boats were on display both on land and in the water to showcase the ...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA — On the hunt for an annual summer event of epic proportions? The 9th Annual Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival is returning to town, and residents can get a first-hand look at ...