(PRWEB) May At the Antique and Classic Boat Society's Restoration Symposium/Workshop recently held in Cincinnati, OH, Antique Boat Center President, Dennis Ryan, presented several factors that ...

CHARLEVOIX The shop smells like varnish and wood dust. William Dreyer II paces anxiously, cell phone pressed to his ear. "You have it?" he says into the phone. "I just need one. Ship it ... Yes.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

With a hoarse rasp, the thin blade of a Dozuki handsaw slides back and forth through a slab of mahogany, shaping the wood into a gentle arc. The traditional Japanese saw cuts on the pull stroke, as ...

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 ...