(PRWEB) May At the Antique and Classic Boat Society's Restoration Symposium/Workshop recently held in Cincinnati, OH, Antique Boat Center President, Dennis Ryan, presented several factors that ...

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 ...

“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” – Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) “Rat, in The Wind in the Willows” (1908) FRISCO – Firm believers in ...

In his dusty workshop alongside the Fox River in McHenry, Ken Bruce is fiddling with three old Switzer Craft wooden boats in various stages of restoration. Building boats was Bruce’s first job out of ...

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 Jeep.

What spawned it: I love old wooden boats and was looking for a journey. The search: I found the boat in 2001 in Minnesota, where it has been sitting in a barn for 40 years or more. Improvements: The ...

He makes the old new again. Renewal, revival, restitution, resuscitation – call it what you may – the craftsman who makes the old new is Arthur Dean Guy. He calls what he does “restoration.” Guy is a ...

Few-Man Boats in Rockford, Illinois is a small business that specializes in the restoration and customization of old boats, ...

Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. The boat is one of two that were buried next to the ...