Spirit Yachts’ flagship P70 may look like an extra from The Great Gatsby, but this oh-so-elegant wooden motoryacht, with its gleaming mirror-varnished mahogany and classic flag-blue paint, is new from ...

On an early summer day, the bay in front of the historic Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens is filled with yachts—shiny, sleek, state-of-the-art, and massive. But there’s one vessel attracting all ...

There are few more classic sights in boating than a small mahogany runabout splitting the serene waters of a lake in some picturesque locale—be it northern Italy, Lake Tahoe, or a pristine stretch of ...

In all of motorized travel there is surely nothing as pure as an old wooden boat plowing the blue waters of Lake Tahoe. Gar Wood, Hackercraft, Chris-Craft, Century. The names are as elegant as the ...

Classic sailing boats seem lost among today's high-tech, imposing superyachts that keep getting bigger. Still, they immediately reveal their majestic strength and timeless elegance once at sea. The ...

Most of us know Tatoosh as the 303-foot (92 meters) Nobiskrug superyacht built for the legendary Paul Allen. But this is also the name of a classic sailing yacht made entirely of wood. Although much ...

Michigan’s wood boat building history comes to life every summer in Great Lakes shoreline communities. It’s a time when quaint harbor towns celebrate the state’s boating heritage with wooden boat ...

From the first time our ancestors answered the call of the sea, the race to build a better boat has been on. The oldest vessel in existence is a 10,000-year-old, hollowed-out tree at the Drents Museum ...

Her wooden spars gleam in the St. Tropez sunshine and water laps gently at her classic curves – a far cry from her life as a houseboat on a Dutch canal. Alongside her, lining the pretty French ...