Some auctions are transactions. Others feel like the start of something. For the people who love wooden boats, the difference ...

For most people, Mecum is best known for muscle cars, rare classics, and headline-grabbing auction results. But every now and then, an auction comes along that reminds us that collecting and ...

Boats, and the stuff that dreams are made of, with access for most, offered by Bridge Marina via Mecum On Time. The post ...

Catch the rich glow of varnished mahogany in the morning sunlight, notice the sleek, simple lines, and – if you score an invitation – step into a wooden boat for an up-close experience, and very ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — With more than 150 boats packed tightly into Point Hudson Harbor and 50 more on the grounds of the Northwest Maritime Center, deciding how to go about seeing as many of them as ...

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

The Balboa Yacht Club is preparing to host the 10th anniversary of its annual celebration of wooden boats in Corona del Mar ...

A classic boat is a keen seductress. Try to resist the lean lines of her mahogany flanks, the soft rumble of her motor, the flare of her bow or the enticing curves of her barrel-back haunches. Beware ...

PORT HADLOCK — Students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding have started building two 26-foot sailboats in what the school is calling the Twin Boats project. About 18 students are working ...

FRANKLIN, Tasmania, Australia (Reuters Life!) - On the banks of the Huon River, a small Australian boat building school is looking to the past to keep a centuries-old tradition of local boat-building ...

In the Solomon Islands, Japanese forces used nighttime runs known as the “Tokyo Express” to move troops and supplies through ...