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 ...

Alberto Galassi is raving about his Riva, a 1970 wooden Aquarama, formed of cedar from Lebanon and mahogany. The CEO of the Ferretti Group, which now owns the Riva boat brand, he took correspondent ...

Paul Reck has been surrounded by boats for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the coastal town of Fairfield, Connecticut, he starting sailing as a child and was just 12 years old when he built ...

As with classic-car connoisseurs, vintage-boat collectors tend to focus on specific periods, seeking out the most iconic models from favored decades. “We’ve found the ‘age window’ is about 30 years,” ...

Genoa City-based Grand Craft Boats LLC, a manufacturer of luxury wooden boats, has launched a new hybrid model called The Clybourn. The Clybourn is the first new model of boat introduced by Grand ...

Jeff Moses of North Liberty is a model boat craftsman extraordinaire with stories to tell and museum-quality samples of his work to display. Lately, he's been trying to figure out how to share what he ...

Bob Memory first saw a Chris-Craft wooden boat in 1957 at the tender and impressionable age of 14. It began a love affair that has endured for more than six decades, even though Memory has never owned ...

The annual Lake Arrowhead Antique and Classic Wooden Boat Show returned to Lake Arrowhead Village last weekend with a variety of antique boats on display as well as vintage woodie cars, hot rods, ...

Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory?Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns such ...

At the Crosby Yacht Yard on Cape Cod, Mass., berthed not far from John F. Kennedy’s wooden sloop, Victura, lies a Windsor Craft 36, an expertly crafted mahogany yacht with a classic Down East hull ...

Spending hours toiling to create a model may seem like an isolating activity to a novice; however, Edward R. Thieler III has ...