People who love wooden boats held a bon voyage party Friday evening on the Sausalito waterfront for one of the rarest and largest wooden ships still afloat. They were celebrating the ...

BoatArt has spent much of the summer restoring the wooden hull of the 1906 Minnehaha passenger steamboat Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named Jeep.

With all the restoration the yacht had in its 64 years under different owners up and down California, it would have been hard for someone to recognize. It also would have been unlikely that one of the ...

Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named Jeep. After graduating from St. Bernard’s High School in St. Paul in 1965, Tom Sweeney joined the U.S. Coast Guard ...