Conversations with Classic Boats is a podcast about classic boat designs and the stories behind them. Hosted by Tom Darling, ...

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 ...

The Festival is an immense effort from a diverse group of people who have the same things in common: they love maritime ...

GENE BUCK’S first wooden sailboat cost just $200 and it took the combined efforts of four of his high school buddies to collect the cash to pay for the old coast guard sailing whaleboat. That was back ...

The 90-year-old boat wears her age well, having emerged from a 12-month refit last year with a complete mechanical overhaul. Weather Bird’s current owner bought the yacht 18 months ago. His two ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Over the years, master craftsmen built wooden boats to sail the Gulf of Mexico. Today, most sail boats are constructed with fiberglass and other composite materials, but there's ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The 48th annual Norfolk Harborfest kicks off Friday at Town Point Park along the Downtown Norfolk waterfront, the city's annual celebration of the maritime and Naval community that ...

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 ...

Another significant casualty has been added to the ever-growing list of yachts destroyed by fire or the odd accident this year. This time, it’s a 1929 classic wood ketch called Halcyon. On the ...

Weather Bird is more than a classic, wooden boat. The 101-foot staysail schooner is a whispering storybook from the 1930s when luminaries like Ernest Hemingway and Cole Porter rubbed shoulders out at ...