Matthew Rhys bought a 1930s wooden boat on eBay and spent four years and thousands of dollars restoring it

The New York Times

The Perry Mason star and his partner Keri Russell have enjoyed chartering wooden boats. As a star of a 1930s-set show, Rhys is also a big fan of the Depression-era decade. So when Rhys saw a wooden boat on eBay, he decided to get one for himself. Was there a bidding war? “No, and I’ll tell you very simply why," Rhys tells The New York Times. "Because anyone who knows boats won’t go near a wooden boat,” he said. “And the people who I knew who do have boats, when I said, ‘I’ve bought a wooden boat,’ would say, ‘What? You idiot.’”