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“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” – Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) “Rat, in The Wind in the Willows” (1908) FRISCO – Firm believers in ...

Something as routine as walking his dog took Neil Gibbs down the slippery slope to classic boat ownership. On Saturday, after several years of restoring an old wooden boat, Gibbs, a long-time sailor ...

In all of motorized travel there is surely nothing as pure as an old wooden boat plowing the blue waters of Lake Tahoe. Gar Wood, Hackercraft, Chris-Craft, Century. The names are as elegant as the ...

Terry and Sue Hart took their 1961 Chris-Craft ski boat out for a run on Lake of the Ozarks on a recent weekday. Terry collects and restores vintage wooden boats. Brent Frazee bfrazee@kcstar.com LAKE ...

More than 30,000 visitors took in the 38th annual Wooden Boat Festival, Sept. 5-7, 2014. With more than 300 boats on hand, it's sort of a pilgrimage for me. A few boats were for sale, but selling ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesotans have enjoyed getting out on the lakes for decades -- and a St. Paul man is looking to bring back that vintage-boat feel. Kevin Fitzke is a fan of the old, wooden race ...

From right: Andrew Lee, owner of Sirens, with Patrick Luloff, head of mechanical at Sirens, and Skipper, a 32-foot Norse hardtop replica boat they restored in 2020. Local news about the companies, ...

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 ...