“I was the brand-new guy right out of boot camp, so they said, ‘Sweeney, you got to go work on that old boat with the old guy,’” he said. The Coast Guard was still using wooden boats at ...

The Wooden Boat Centre at Franklin has now taken ownership of the boat and says repairs will be costly because her motor has not been operational for some time, the mast snapped during the winds ...

Under the same ownership for the last 25 years she has undergone extensive renovation during that time and was converted to a three masted standing lug rig. This eyecatching rig allows for short ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff’’s Office responded to a total of 258 calls for service from Sept. 06 through Sept. 13. Deputies conducted 57 traffic stops, of which two resulted in criminal … ...

Lawrence River in his antique wooden boat, Goat Locker. She’s a 32-foot-long sea skiff made by Trojan in 1969. Wooden boats are a lot like classic cars, Garnsey says, they’re always going to ...

The Wooden Boat Festival took place in Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, and I was privileged to be invited to perform there. I’d been wanting to play at this event for ...

I also grew up in the Northeast, which meant that I didn’t have a lot of bass lakes around (let alone a bass boat) where I could emulate my heroes. But I did have a bunch of trout streams. So, armed ...

Jack Hakala and John Pagelkopf, of Esko High School, cast from their bass boat during a practice fishing session on Chub Lake near Carlton on Monday, Aug. 26. The duo is fishing in the Minnesota ...

The defense secretary’s decision to overrule a plea deal for 9/11 defendants only extends a long-running farce.

The next chief will almost certainly be the most important hire of Bass’ first term. She plans to make her decision by Sept. 30. The Encino resident faced major scrutiny during the pay-to-play ...

More abandoned boats are being targeted for recycling after a successful pilot project in south Devon, the local authority has said. Boats are regularly reported as abandoned, sunk or stranded ...