You'll be excused if you thought the mahogany speedboat pictured here is a classic runabout from America's golden age of the 1920s. This is, in fact, a blank-slate modern design that takes inspiration ...

Select runabouts and speedboats, between 24 and 42 feet, have emerged as boating’s latest crown jewels. They’re not retro replicas, but their subtle curves, tumblehome sterns, and wood accents retain ...

But the boat of his dreams is something else, a style known as a mahogany runabout. Generally measuring between 20 and 35 feet long and designed to carry four to eight passengers, runabouts are built ...

Riva Yachts has created an exhibition hall for seven of its mahogany runabouts at the MBL Lake Como International Museum of Vintage Boats in Pianello del Lario, Italy. Lake Como has one of the largest ...

Steve Leslie doesn’t drive his customized classic GMC pickup truck to many car shows. But when he does, he and his truck get mobbed. But all the attention goes to what’s out back. His pickup tows a ...

Retro-looking yachts have been around, in one form or another. Modern classics, such as the mahogany runabouts from builders like Grand Craft and Hacker, are purposely designed to look like boats from ...

Dick Sligh runs a finger along the prow of a 26-foot mahogany runabout. “I’ve been in love with these since I was a kid,” he murmurs. “I’ve owned fiberglass boats over the years, but I’ve never ...

Simon Fletcher, who turns out precisely two handmade mahogany runabouts each year from his Port Angeles workshop, is fighting a losing, lonely battle against what he calls "big, fat, high, ugly, ...

Evidence shows that humans used boats as far back as prehistoric times, with the earliest reports of usage dating back to approximately around 900,000 years ago. So, what exactly is a runabout boat?