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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gleaming, high-polished mahogany hull denotes a different time in American boating. A time when skilled craftsmen made things by hand to quality standards. Grand Craft Boats has a storied past, ...

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, ...

Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...

Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of ...