With summer just around the corner, Americans are preparing their outdoor machines. Some are for cruising on Sundays, others for taking long trips out into the wild. Some, however, are all about the ...

Ken Cook aboard his 1930 Chris Craft wooden motorboat docked in Whitefish Lake in Whitefish on June 7. (Adrian Knowler/Daily Inter Lake) A wooden boat glides across Whitefish Lake during the Whitefish ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Instead of his usual sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, 'Santa Claus' took a maritime approach to celebrating the holidays in Calhoun County Thursday. Decked out in holly-jolly ...

In the 1940s, skilled carpenters were lining up to apply for jobs at the new Chris-Craft boat plant in Chattanooga. In the accompanying archive photo from the Chattanooga News-Free Press, workers at ...