Antique- and classic-boat restoration captures the joy of the boating culture. John Tiger It's no secret that boats are, in today's parlance, hella expensive. You can spend well over $50,000, $100,000 ...

Architect J. Clifford Grout III has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with others on a project that’s dear to his heart: working on the restoration of a historic New Orleans-built wooden PT boat ...

WHEN Leland Parsons first laid eyes on the Irene, she had been tied up in the corner of Pillar Point Harbor for over a year, a fishing boat considered too old for fishing. On that fateful day in late ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. – While most of the boats made these days are typically fiberglass, the beauty in wood simply can’t be beat. That’s the thought of the Traditional Small Craft Association in South ...

PORTLAND — As the sailing vessel Corahleen, suspended by straps and cables slowly unwinding from spools above, inched toward the water, owner Rick Bishoprick crouched on a nearby dock to savor the ...

HARBOR SPRINGS>> A rusted and damaged boat built in the late 1800s by a northern Michigan inventor is undergoing an extensive restoration with the goal of putting the revamped vessel on display in the ...

KALISPELL, Mont. — Restoration is underway on a nearly 100-year-old boat from the Glacier Park Boat Company. Once it’s finished, visitors to the park will get to enjoy a piece of history with some new ...