The Patience, the wooden-flat boat Rinker Buck spent four months floating down the Mississippi River is pictured here on the Ohio River near the Moundsville Bridge in Moundsville, West Virginia.

Blake Hosli isn’t in the business of building boats — and certainly not wooden boats.

More than 20 teams turned out for Fort Leonard Wood's annual Cardboard Boat Race, held Saturday at the lake at Training Area 250. While teams could have an unlimited number of boat-builders, each ...

In boating, he added, the retro look is becoming popular again. The last big maker of wooden boats, Chris-Craft, stopped making them more than 50 years ago to concentrate on fiberglass.

Using his father's tools, patterns, wood — and even some parts crafted by his father before his death — Steve Steele, Keith's eldest son, is again building wooden McKenzie boats in his shop ...