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 ...

A common mode of transportation for fishermen living in rural areas south of the Yangtze River in the past, canoes are a rare sight nowadays. The 68-year-old Gao Dabao is said to be the last person in ...

This boutique shipyard has really branched out with its latest luxury day cruiser. The Italian-based Wooden Boats has crafted a 40-foot custom tender from, you guessed it, wood. While wood is not a ...

A Bunkie boatmaker gets Hollywood attention when his craftsmanship appears in Paramount+'s hit series "Landman." ...

When you're in the custom transportation business and designing cars, planes, or boats to meet one person's needs, taste, or budget, you never know what's going to come through the door next. That's ...

A Genoa City builder of custom, wooden power boats is testing the international marketplace with a new partnership with a boat dealer a half a world away. That may seem a long and somewhat unlikely ...

Summer in Michigan is a time for driving to cool places and, if you’re lucky, messing around in boats. Buick just blended both these pursuits, with drives of its latest Avenir brand models and time on ...

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 feel ...

It was the late 1950s when Ray Bimber took me to Tidioute to buy a boat from a boat builders shop. To me, the man looked very old, but then I was very young. The shop with boats in progress was ...