Classic Boat

The premier issue of PropTalk hit newsstands in July 2005, and a very special boat named Sawdust graced that inaugural cover.

“Boats Made Popular through TV and Film’’ is the theme of this year’s 37th annual Antique and Classic Boat Festival and Coastal Arts Fair at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St.

Bertram Yachts grew out of the legendary 1960 Miami-Nassau powerboat race.

The classic Privateer hulls were popular in the Chesapeake region in the 1980s and 1990s.

There are some boats that just get into your blood. For many sportfish aficionados, Bertram Yachts easily come to mind.

At the time of this writing spring was still weeks away. Yet ever since the Christmas tree came down in mid-January, I have felt increasingly restless, and I am hardly alone.

Built in 1925 by Harry Hudgins in the William West yard, the deck boat (or buyboat) Peggy was nam

The 26-foot-long wooden motor launch Bubble rests on blocks in an ancient, cluttered shed that is part of the venerable legacy of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, RI.

A buyboat, sometimes referred to as a deckboat, is a long wooden boat with a large open deck, a rear mounted deck house, and

Gracefully curled slivers of wood flowed from the hand plane as it glided back and forth across the teak decking.

A sweet mahogany antique powerboat with downeast lines tied up to the dock at our yacht club recently, and even from a distanc

The name Chris-Craft has long been associated with beautiful, classic wooden motorboats, gleaming with chromed hardware

Holly Tompkins and her husband, Brad, lovingly restored Cayuga, a Ray Hunt designed fiberglass-hulled powerboat built in 1984 and won an award at the annual St. Michaels Antique and Classic Boat…

Built in 1928 by Gray Boats in Thomaston, ME, and currently named Anna Mary after our first grandchild (we have five now), our 32-foot single screw

Howard Johnson’s Old Time World collection of yesteryear classic boats, motors, cars, and memorabilia is one of a kind.

The St. Pete Boat Show is big. Really big; biggest boat show on the Gulf Coast. It’s over 40 years old and has seemingly endless rows of floating docks, each full of boats.

I was invited aboard Liquid Asset, a Chris-Craft Holiday, by Ed Andrews,

Here are two notable Trumpy yachts: the first is an 80-foot Trumpy built in 1947, the S.S. Sophie. The second is ex presidential yacht U.S.S. Sequoia.