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As Gerardin puts it, “you feel like you are on a boat from the spice trade 200 years ago.” Those who would like to experience traveling onboard the world’s largest wooden sailing yacht ...
Toy boats have been popular for hundreds of years. There were carved wooden sail boats, tin models of paddle-wheel boats, ocean liners and military fleets made by the 19th century. By the 20th ...
A second-grade class in Minnesota launched the toy-like boat decades ago. A message on the boat read: "I am traveling to the ocean. Please put me back in the water." The couple did just that.
Entrants in the regatta, put on by the Wooden Hull Yacht Club of Southern California, were to sail 12 nautical miles around buoys anchored in the open sea between Santa Monica and El Segundo.
A wooden toy discovered during an excavation of an Iron Age site in central Norway hints that 1,000 years ago, ... as she wielded her toy Viking boat and dreamed about sailing the open sea.
This weekend, the cargo freighters and fishermen's boats on the Columbia River have some unusual company. Two wooden tall ships, the kind you might find sailing the rough seas and shooting cannons ...
Toys Through Time: Yorkshire toy museum owner shares recent collection including 19th century doll, sailing boat, Martinique cloth dolls, yo-yo and board game used for education ...
Wooden vessels, of all shapes and sizes, will be on display this weekend for the annual Billy Creel Memorial Wooden Classic Boat Show. The two-day event at the Schooner Pier Complex takes place ...
Some of the crew on board yachts bound for Hobart's Wooden Boat Festival have spoken of the hair-raising conditions they faced on their journey south. The festival is the biggest of its kind in ...
A second-grade class in Minnesota launched the toy-like boat decades ago. A message on the boat read: "I am traveling to the ocean. Please put me back in the water." The couple did just that.