A Preservationist Past

by Heather Steinberger

After collecting wooden boats for 37 years, F. Todd Warner realized he had complied a history of America’s maritime past and the seeds of countless other collections.

We’d become lost three times in the undulating autumn-splash farm country west of Minneapolis, but at least we rolled into the modest town of Winsted, Minnesota. I couldn’t imagine a more incongruous setting for a historic classic boat auction.