Some auctions are transactions. Others feel like the start of something. For the people who love wooden boats, the difference matters—because what they're chasing isn't just a finished hull on glassy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named Jeep. After graduating from St. Bernard’s ...

It was around 1995 when Woodbury, Tennessee, resident Travis Hickman took a wooden boat out onto the lake one day to test it out before beginning the process of restoring it for a customer.

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 ...

It’s no secret that boats are, in today’s parlance, hella expensive. You can spend well over $50,000, $100,000, even $150,000 on a medium-size runabout, fishing boat or wakeboard boat. So, if you want ...

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 Hessel, Mich ...

Every piece of wood has a story. Every tool. Every boat. And it’s the job of wooden boat builders Andy Stewart, James McMullen and Pat O’Hearn to make that story shine. “We’re just here to help people ...

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 ...

With all the restoration the yacht had in its 64 years under different owners up and down California, it would have been hard for someone to recognize. It also would have been unlikely that one of the ...

History hops aboard when Jim Hayek takes family and friends out on the water for some boating fun. The Davenport man is the proud owner of a legendary power boat built in an era when wood, not ...