Safety is a part of the wooden boat restoration process; practice safe work procedures and enjoy a long life of rewarding fun and friendship by preserving the antique boat heritage.

An old wooden boat built in 1934 is less than three months away from being fully restored and tying up in the water on Shem Creek.

BoatArt has spent much of the summer restoring the wooden hull of the 1906 Minnehaha passenger steamboat Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named ...

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 ...

The boat is named Vintage Year, and Aust keeps it in a boathouse in Echo Bay on the east side of the lake. Aust lives only 15 minutes from the boathouse, so he's able to take to the water three to ...

Partner Tordoff, after restoring and selling a couple of classic wooden boats, now has a 1951 19-foot Chris Craft Holiday named “H2O Dancer.” “I look at a wooden boat as a fine piece of ...

Brian Keen credits his uncle for getting him into boats. He owned five or six, and as Keen entered college, his uncle’s interest grew—and so did Keen’s. That interest, mixed with Keen’s love of old ...

Curtis Bauman likes doing things the “old way.” And, apparently, so do his clients, owners of antique wood boats in dire need of some TLC. Combining his passion for woodworking and boating, Bauman has ...

ALTUS, OKLAHOMA — His work in winter measures to the very end of an age when every boat was made of wood. Clay Thompson is a pool and spa guy in the summer, but his creative currents flow tow… ...

Restoring wooden PT boat labor of love for architect whose grandfather worked in New Orleans factory that built them ...

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