"The wooden boats are made so the front third of the boat is out of the water and they're just graceful. They look so good," says Bill Shepherd of Lafayette, who will be showing three, all of them ...

Wooden boats have a special attraction; many are five, six or seven decades old or older, […] Skip to content. ... (“It’s not work; it’s a pleasure,” says Ralph Rodheim, ...

Wooden boats typically took longer to build and required much more maintenance. ... Still, despite all the work he has done and still does, Peter Kass said he has never wanted to do anything else.

A few months later, in 2020, Gallagher had bought the company, and found himself with a lot of work on his hands. ... The wooden boats also, famously, ride like 1937, ...

Traditional wooden boat building is a waning craft practiced by a diminishing few. Sager, 37, and his wife are a young couple doing their part to ensure it doesn’t die with the old masters.

Until the mid-1930s, most small boats were made of wood. A few were made of aluminum or steel, but those were mostly work boats. Planked, molded from strips or sided with plywood, wooden boats ...

WINTER HAVEN — “May whoever rides in this boat catch more fish, have a good time and stay dry,” Jan Wyatt said, christening the small green wooden rowboat with a champagne toast.

The Caleb Brewster whaleboat project progresses as volunteers complete the outer hull, aiming for completion by the nation's ...

Wooden boats bridging passion and profession. A dream realized over the past 38 years, these wooden boat builders are dedicated to their craft and their customers.

Mark Thompson loves wooden boats. The proud owner and restorer of three classic work boats built by legendary boat builder Reg Lowe, of Killarney, Ontario, says there's a charm about wooden boats ...

Lake St. Croix Beach wooden boat restoration company is wrapping up its biggest project to date BoatArt has spent much of the summer restoring the wooden hull of the 1906 Minnehaha passenger steamboat ...