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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.
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 ...
CAYUGA - Wooden boats tend to evoke a sense of style and panache, the likes of which a fiberglass boat could never hope to achieve. Think Carey Grant, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn or any of the other ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Curtis Bauman likes doing things the “old way.” And, apparently, so do his clients, owners of antique wood boats in dire need of some TLC. Combining his passion for woodworking and boating, Bauman has ...
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 ...
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 ...
Four picture books show kids the infinite joys of building, sailing, restoring and just plain floating a boat. From “Lily Leads the Way.”Credit...Matt Myers Supported by By Peter Behrens “Believe me, ...
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 ...