Antonio Salguero first visited Vineyard Haven as a child in the late 1970s. At the time, his uncle Ross Gannon was a young local carpenter.

During the great age of yachting, in the early part of the 20th century, the premier ocean race, where boats and their crews were tested on a stage that was covered on front pages of newspapers all over the country, was the Newport to Bermuda Race.

A few weeks ago, in the parking lot at the Tisbury Wharf Company on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven, Ishmael, the 41-foot schooner, rested out of the water on blocks.

Beside the winch shed, in front of the parking lot at Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway in Vineyard Haven, the boatyard stores its blocking.

Snowflake had been advertised on the Wooden Boat Magazine website for six months when my partner Ana and I decided to look at her on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

Every summer, Paul Curran and Jill Walsh from Oak Bluffs haul their Bahamian Sloop, Mary Eleanor, onto the railway at Gannon and Benjamin in Vineyard Haven.

More than 80 people gathered at Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway in Vineyard Haven Saturday for the launch of Nat Benjamin’s 100th design, a custom 26-foot, gaff-rigged sloop called Marta.

In a quiet spot, inside the harbor in Culebra, Puerto Rico, in January this year, Elise Quebec pumped up a wingsurfing wing for the first time.

At the head of Vineyard Haven harbor, Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway is still building wooden boats.

On Jan. 23, Zada Clarke and Alex Goldhill were married in Carriacou, an island to the north of Grenada.