You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat – tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight – is one of the ...
Efforts to free a boat that has been stranded on Milwaukee's Lake Michigan shoreline failed Monday. The boat "Deep Thought" washed ashore between McKinley and Bradford beaches in October. The U.S.
The British sailor is honored for more than five decades of long-distance voyaging aboard small, simply built junk-rigged ...
Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...
The boats ranged from a large, raft-sized boat built from rain collection barrels secured by a wooden frame and powered by a bicycle frame attached to small paddle wheels, to a one-person boat ...
Last week, we talked about different larger sailing vessels that were common in the 17th, and 18th. and 19th centuries and how they were used. While much of the same terminology is used to describe ...
The U.S. Coast Guard continued working with a salvage company Monday to remove a marine battery and fixed diesel fuel tank from a 30ft sailing vessel that ran into rocks and began taking on water near ...
(CNN) — Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away ...