CHARLEVOIX The shop smells like varnish and wood dust. William Dreyer II paces anxiously, cell phone pressed to his ear. "You have it?" he says into the phone. "I just need one. Ship it ... Yes.

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 ...

Brian Keen credits his uncle for getting him into boats. He owned five or six, and as Keen entered college, his uncle’s interest grew—and so did Keen’s. That interest, mixed with Keen’s love of old ...

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.