Wooden boat collections are 'whole different league' Several collectors in the Gull Lake area are preserving and sharing a special part of boating history.

The wooden boat industry used hard, beautiful and sometimes contrasting colors of mahogany from Africa, Honduras and the Philippines to create the masterpieces.

Classic wood runabouts are abundant at shows like the Les Cheneaux Antique Wooden Boat Show and Festival of Arts, which is hosted in Hessel annually and this year is on Aug. 10. Pictured is a ...

Once again, it’s time for Wooden Boat Week and the Concours d’Elegance antique boat competition. As its name suggests, this is, indeed, a gathering of elegance.

When Terry Hart pulls up in a wooden ski boat, people at Lake of the Ozarks take notice. Hart collects and restores vintage wooden boats.

Craft will be featured in this weekend’s Antique and Classic Boat Festival, put on at The Boardwalk Marina by the Inland ...

Wooden boats have a special attraction; many are five, six or seven decades old or older, harking back to a simpler, quieter time.

In the mid-90s, a group of Alexandria, Minnesota, residents wanted to highlight wooden boats and their craftsmanship, believing they were essentially works of art. So, they converted an old city ...

Still, some old wooden Beetle Cats survived and brand spanking new ones continued coming out of the Beetle Cat Co. shop near New Bedford, Mass. While our family never owned one of these well-crafted ...

The Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show — an annual event spanning back to 1978 — returns on Saturday, Aug. 14 with more than 150 boats signed up and registered to be on display this ...

An aficionado of wooden boats since he was a child and an economist by training, Andrew Breece came on as the publisher of WoodenBoat Publications on March 8, stepping into the shoes of the wooden ...