Pull up to a dock in a mahogany speedboat, burnished like a Stradivarius under layer upon layer of varnish, classic engine rumbling like far-off thunder, and you are connecting with a potent brand of ...
DRAKAIOI, Greece (AP) — On the forested slopes of an island mountain, early morning mist swirling around its peak, the unmistakable form of a traditional Greek wooden boat emerges: a caique, or kaiki, ...
On the desk before me rests the hull of a model of an American schooner, the Flying Fish, the original of which was constructed nearly a century and a half ago. The first Flying Fish was about 75 feet ...
It’s not easy for any business executive in the throes of middle age to leave a comfortable third-generation family business for a new venture with an uncertain future. For Patrick Gallagher, his move ...
Our former colleague Peter Egan once wrote in Cycle World, our former sister publication, that his favorite motorcycles “give good garage,” meaning they are so aesthetically pleasing that he is ...
The gleaming, high-polished mahogany hull denotes a different time in American boating. A time when skilled craftsmen made things by hand to quality standards. Grand Craft Boats has a storied past, ...
Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Genoa City-based Grand Craft Boats LLC, a manufacturer of ...
Genoa City-based Grand Craft Boats LLC, a manufacturer of luxury wooden boats, has launched a new hybrid model called The Clybourn. The Clybourn is the first new model of boat introduced by Grand ...
Grand Craft's handmade mahogany boats have been owned by celebrities Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Tim Allen and Kid Rock. Until recently, the boats bore a "Holland, Michigan" plaque on their ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats ...
A Genoa City builder of custom, wooden power boats is testing the international marketplace with a new partnership with a boat dealer a half a world away. That may seem a long and somewhat unlikely ...
Wooden boats are an integral part of the Greek landscape, adorning tourist brochures, postcards and countless holiday snaps. They have been sailing across Greece for centuries, used as fishing boats, ...