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 ...

In boating, he added, the retro look is becoming popular again. The last big maker of wooden boats, Chris-Craft, stopped making them more than 50 years ago to concentrate on fiberglass.

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

Hulls of mahogany, burl, cypress, cedar and teak replaced the typical fiberglass-laden boats lining Balboa Yacht Club’s docks Saturday as the club hosted its inaugural Wooden Boat Festival. A… ...

Until the mid-1930s, most small boats were made of wood. A few were made of aluminum or steel, but those were mostly workboats. Planked, molded from strips or sided with plywood, wooden boats were ...

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 boats are made so the front third of the boat is out of the water and they're just graceful. They look so good," says Bill Shepherd of Lafayette, who will be showing three, all of them ...

Over several decades, the Van Dam family has been working to build some of the most unique boats on the Great Lakes.

There was a time dozens of boatbuilders made wooden skiffs in Keyport. Now the only game in town, or the New York metropolitan area, for that matter, is the Pedersen family. Over the years, the ...

Pricey wooden boats—those once leaky, maintenance-hungry, floating mahogany works of art—are making a comeback. Last weekend's 41st Annual Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show in ...