Press

Robb Report cover December 2025 / January 2026

January 1, 2026

Van Dam Featured in Robb Report’s Exclusive “The Vault” Gift Guide

Classic Boat Magazine November 2024

November 1, 2024

Classic Boat Magazine Calls Van Dam the “Q Branch of the Wooden Boatbuilding World”

Speed on the Water Van Dam

July 1, 2024

Speed on the Water Goes “Deep in the Woods” With Van Dam Custom Boats

September 24, 2023

Van Dam Hosts ACBS Vintage Boat Week — and Italmas Takes the Platinum

Robb Report July 2023

July 1, 2023

Robb Report Names Van Dam One of the 9 Best Wooden Boatbuilders in the World

September 1, 2022

Elevated Yachts Magazine: Van Dam Custom Boats Is “One Worth Waiting For”

April 1, 2023

Van Dam’s Dreamboat Featured in ACBS Rudder Magazine — A Legacy Built Across Generations

Michigan Blue Magazine Fall 2022

October 3, 2022

Michigan Blue Magazine Explores the Design Exclusivity of Van Dam Custom Boats

June 1, 2022

Elevated Yachts Magazine: “If You Imagine It, the Van Dam Team Can Create It”

April 16, 2022

Elevated Yachts Magazine: “There Is a Story That Is Told Inside of That Wood”

June 2, 2020

Forbes: Van Dam Custom Boats Sets a New Standard in Wooden Boatbuilding

January 15, 2022

Elevated Yachts Magazine: “A Van Dam Boat Isn’t a Thing You Buy. It’s a Process You Undertake.”

June 21, 2021

Elevated Yachts Magazine: “From Dream to Design to Delivery — This Is Your Dream Team”

March 15, 2021

Robb Report Spotlights Van Dam’s Catnip Among the World’s Best Wooden Boats

Sailing Magazine Nov 2020

November 11, 2020

Sailing Magazine Calls Van Dam Craftsmen “Wizards of Wood”

Cover of Robb Report magazine.

September 4, 2018

Robb Report: Van Dam’s Geronimo — A Commuter Yacht Jay Gatsby Would Have Loved

October 21, 2019

Power & Motoryacht: “They Build the Prettiest Wooden Boats in the World”

Cover of Epoxyworks magazine.

September 27, 2018

Epoxyworks Magazine: How Van Dam Built Italmas — Where Old-World Craft Meets Modern Innovation

Cover of The Manual magazine.

August 17, 2018

The Manual: Behind the Scenes at the Workshop Where the World’s Finest Wooden Boats Are Born

July 31, 2018

Forbes: “I Have No Reason to Doubt” That Van Dam Builds the World’s Finest Wooden Boats

Cover of Lakeland Boating magazine.

July 10, 2017

Pursuit of Perfection: The Story of Michigan’s Master Wooden Boatbuilders

Cover of Soar magazine.

June 10, 2017

SOAR Magazine: “No Man Made Products Match the Beauty and Versatility of Wood”

Cover of Life Refined magazine.

April 9, 2017

Life Refined Magazine: “It’s Like Building a Piece of Fine Furniture Except That It’s Going to Be Dynamic”

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Creating The WORLD’S Finest Wooden Boats

Custom wooden boat building is a labor of love and a way of life. Van Dam Custom Boats is committed to a set of values and principles that elevate the meaning of craftsmanship; moving with purpose, engaging the mind and cultivating an attitude of excellence. It results in watercraft of incomparable quality that are unrivaled in the industry.

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