The home-built vessel crafted by a blind man in Garden Grove was to sail from California to the Great Lakes, traveling more than 7,000 miles through open and inland waters. Instead, the hull of the ...
RACINE - Frank Cihler and a friend took his home-built steamboat out on Lake Michigan last week to put it through some paces and see how it performed - sort of a shakedown cruise.
A woman quit teaching to build incredible, seaworthy replicas of historic wooden boats. Gail McGarva spends up to nine months at a time constructing her historically accurate and functioning ...