The classic-boat market has seen a shift in the past few years, with many seasoned owners selling off prized mahogany vessels as an influx of first-time buyers enters the market. “It’s not so much ...

Like classic cars, wooden boats have a style, craftsmanship and romance unique to their time period. Their aficionados say that's what makes them far-distant cousins to today's mass-produced boats ...

Something as routine as walking his dog took Neil Gibbs down the slippery slope to classic boat ownership. On Saturday, after several years of restoring an old wooden boat, Gibbs, a long-time sailor ...

Terry and Sue Hart took their 1961 Chris-Craft ski boat out for a run on Lake of the Ozarks on a recent weekday. Terry collects and restores vintage wooden boats. Brent Frazee [email protected] LAKE ...

Cruising across Lake Tahoe’s blue waters in a vintage wooden boat, its varnished mahogany and chrome lines glistening in the sun, feels like a trip back in time to the days when Frank Sinatra graced ...

Pull up to a dock in a mahogany speedboat, burnished like a Stradivarius under layer upon layer of varnish, classic engine rumbling like far-off thunder, and you are connecting with a potent brand of ...

From right: Andrew Lee, owner of Sirens, with Patrick Luloff, head of mechanical at Sirens, and Skipper, a 32-foot Norse hardtop replica boat they restored in 2020. As aesthetically pleasing as they ...

As with classic-car connoisseurs, vintage-boat collectors tend to focus on specific periods, seeking out the most iconic models from favored decades. “We’ve found the ‘age window’ is about 30 years,” ...