On a bright and clear summer day, Jeff Garnsey is making his way along the St. Lawrence River in his antique wooden boat, Goat Locker. She’s a 32-foot-long sea skiff made by Trojan in 1969. Wooden ...

Lake Shore, Minn. – Minnesota has a deep and storied boating history, and a new and fascinating chapter is being written in the Brainerd Lakes area. This lake-rich part of the state has become home to ...

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, ...

GEORGETOWN — Longtime Georgetown Wooden Boat Show participant Tommy Graham may know the secret behind the event's nearly four-decade run. "Boats that are made of wood have souls, and other boats are ...

PORT TOWNSEND — With more than 150 boats packed tightly into Point Hudson Harbor and 50 more on the grounds of the Northwest Maritime Center, deciding how to go about seeing as many of them as ...

It’s not easy for any business executive in the throes of middle age to leave a comfortable third-generation family business for a new venture with an uncertain future. For Patrick Gallagher, his move ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats ...

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 ...