KOBUK RIVER — This fall and early winter I’ve been fixated on an old wooden boat. At villages and camps along the river, ...

BAYFIELD -- Doug Hanson remembers getting hauled from the Twin Cities to Duluth as a teenager to see some sort of big sailing ship enter the harbor. "I don't remember how big it was, what year it was ...

FAIR HAVEN - Dozens of old wooden boats that were once forgotten relics of the past were finally afloat and on display again at Fair Haven's Pleasant Beach Hotel Sunday. Hotel owner Bonnie Scoville ...

Wooden boats aren’t in museums in Northern Michigan’s Les Cheneaux Islands, home of the first Chris Craft dealership in the world, they live on the water. Within the hidden bays and intimate ...

A 1930s-era rescue boat used by the early U.S. Coast Guard has apparently found its way back home to Maine, and will be featured at a planned maritime museum at Kittery’s Wood Island. The rare craft ...

CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. (AP) – For many, wooden boats are the stuff of which dreams are made – instant time machines that take us back to the days when Humphrey Bogart and George Raft ruled the ...

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 ...