COEUR d'ALENE - Bob Ickes and his wife, Eileen, have enjoyed many happy days in their boat, the "Happydaze."

"We had a shorter one, an old runabout, called 'Goodoldaze,' all one word and spelled d-a-z-e, and we were trying to think of what to name this one," he said with a smile. "I said, 'We have the 'Goodoldaze,' how about 'Happydaze' to go with it?'"

The Post Falls couple has entered the "Happydaze," a 1948 30-foot Chris-Craft sedan cruiser, into the Coeur d'Alene Wooden Boat Show for about 15 years. Eileen read a book in the roomy cabin Sunday afternoon while Bob described how he restored the wooden cruiser from when he purchased it in 2002 to its completion in 2005. He said it's not much of a show boat because the restorations were done to their liking rather than the standard of that specific boat.

"It's done the way we wanted it rather than to make it back to the original," he said. "The galley is all different, it had an ice box and now we have an electric refrigerator. It didn't have a heater. And the deck is wrong, it should be canvas like (the roof) but I like the looks of the teak better."

The "Happydaze" was one of more than 30 gorgeous, shiny, custom and/or classic boats that lined The Coeur d'Alene Resort Boardwalk through the 28th annual Coeur d'Alene Wooden Boat Show. The Boardwalk rocked from waves and nonstop visitors who admired the boats as they strolled along.

Daren Upchurch of Coeur d'Alene walked with his friend Ken Clarke of Thousand Oaks, Calif., who traveled to Coeur d'Alene that particular weekend to see the Wooden Boat Show.

"I come to this to see the workmanship. Beautiful workmanship," Upchurch said. A boater himself, he said the people who build and maintain the crafts in the show have a lot of patience to do so and that he really liked each one he saw.

"I particularly enjoyed the kayaks," he said. "We talked to one guy, he buys the boards and cuts the strips himself and forms them. So it's pretty much hand labor."

The boat show included a wide variety of "woodies," customs and luxury crafts, such as Duane and Lola Hagadone's towering, 60-foot sailboat, and Daryl and Carolyn Reynolds' 1936 Chris-Craft Runabout, the "At Last," which won the People's Choice Award.

Fritz Sander, who works in sales and public relations at Tobler Marina in Hayden, was in a custom 2014 StanCraft Bennington Mahogany Edition pontoon boat. Worth about $180,000 and with a top speed of about 50 miles per hour, its beige seats and wood accents gave the feeling of a mini luxury liner.

"It's very unique, it's actually the only pontoon boat with real wood," he said. "The trend in the nation is really the pontoon boats. A pontoon boat is basically your SUVs on the water. It's comfortable, you can put a lot of people on it, kids, you can go fast, you can go slow, you can do about anything you want to do with it."