(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.

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 ...

An old wooden boat built in 1934 is less than three months away from being fully restored and tying up in the water on Shem Creek. Several years ago, while Mount Pleasant resident Bob Graham was ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Repairing wooden boats is by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...