Architect J. Clifford Grout III has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with others on a project that’s dear to his heart: working on the restoration of a historic New Orleans-built wooden PT boat ...

Organizers for the Boblo boat restoration project are soliciting help from the public to continue renovations on the boat after a fire, believed to be caused by a welding spark, engulfed the historic ...

WHEN Leland Parsons first laid eyes on the Irene, she had been tied up in the corner of Pillar Point Harbor for over a year, a fishing boat considered too old for fishing. On that fateful day in late ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. – While most of the boats made these days are typically fiberglass, the beauty in wood simply can’t be beat. That’s the thought of the Traditional Small Craft Association in South ...

CAIROCAIRO — 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 ...

It was a run-in with the enemy that was too close for comfort, and more than 70 years later, the details remain vivid in the mind of a Navy veteran who served aboard a legendary ship. U.S. Navy ...

HARBOR SPRINGS>> A rusted and damaged boat built in the late 1800s by a northern Michigan inventor is undergoing an extensive restoration with the goal of putting the revamped vessel on display in the ...

PORTLAND — As the sailing vessel Corahleen, suspended by straps and cables slowly unwinding from spools above, inched toward the water, owner Rick Bishoprick crouched on a nearby dock to savor the ...

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 High School in St. Paul in 1965, Tom Sweeney joined the U.S. Coast Guard ...

The first phase of restoring the Western Flyer fishing boat is nearing completion in Port Townsend, Washington, and its return to Monterey is tentatively set for next fall. The 76-foot purse seiner ...