Fans of wooden boats often call crafting their handmade vessels a labor of love. For Walter Hackman, 80, of Bakersfield, having his 55-foot, 40-ton Chinese junk built in a small shipyard in a rural ...

This boutique shipyard has really branched out with its latest luxury day cruiser. The Italian-based Wooden Boats has crafted a 40-foot custom tender from, you guessed it, wood. While wood is not a ...

A Genoa City builder of custom, wooden power boats is testing the international marketplace with a new partnership with a boat dealer a half a world away. That may seem a long and somewhat unlikely ...

Summer in Michigan is a time for driving to cool places and, if you’re lucky, messing around in boats. Buick just blended both these pursuits, with drives of its latest Avenir brand models and time on ...

HOLLAND, MI — The gleaming mahogany hull of the Verano turns heads wherever it goes, causing Captain Darryl Holtz to budget extra time at gas stations for the inevitable questions about the ...

Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats turned into a small, niche for aficionados who love the look and feel ...

Hayden-based StanCraft Boat Co. has been experiencing strong growth with a 30% increase in total sales since the start of the pandemic, a company official said. “Every downturn of the economy has been ...

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 were ...

It was the late 1950s when Ray Bimber took me to Tidioute to buy a boat from a boat builders shop. To me, the man looked very old, but then I was very young. The shop with boats in progress was ...