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Tapering Molded Sheerstrake Endings, Step-By-Step

Tapering Molded Sheerstrake Endings, Step-By-Step

GRAMP Heads to Mystic Seaport

GRAMP Heads to Mystic Seaport

Why This Skiff?

Why This Skiff?

Schooner BOWDOIN Re-Topping: Some Intriguing Details

Schooner BOWDOIN Re-Topping: Some Intriguing Details

Charter VELA in Maine This Summer

Charter VELA in Maine This Summer

Restoring SPARKLE

Restoring SPARKLE

Fine Boat Designs – SPARKLE, A Speedy Sloop With A Whaleboat Heritage

Fine Boat Designs – SPARKLE, A Speedy Sloop With A Whaleboat Heritage

My Favorite OCH Videos (and Why), by Co-Founder Eric Blake

My Favorite OCH Videos (and Why), by Co-Founder Eric Blake

Three Boats I Lust After and Why; A Guest Blog by Jim Giblin

Three Boats I Lust After and Why; A Guest Blog by Jim Giblin

Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 4 – 10/22/12

Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 4 – 10/22/12

Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 1 – 9/27/12

Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 1 – 9/27/12

Three Boats I Lust After (and Why), by Peter Neill

Three Boats I Lust After (and Why), by Peter Neill

Surprise Me Reload

BONNY BRIDE Progress — Restoring a Wooden Lobster Boat, Part 5, New Floor Timbers, Frames, and a Portside Repair

BONNY BRIDE Progress — Restoring a Wooden Lobster Boat, Part 5, New Floor Timbers, Frames, and a Portside Repair

The Influence of the Outward Bound School

The Influence of the Outward Bound School

Walkabout in Port Townsend, Washington

Walkabout in Port Townsend, Washington

The Yawl Rig – My Favorite Rig and Why by Dick Wagner

The Yawl Rig – My Favorite Rig and Why by Dick Wagner

Beginning the Houseboat Design Spiral

Beginning the Houseboat Design Spiral

Voyaging Thru Time: Photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum, Part 12

Voyaging Thru Time: Photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum, Part 12

Newbert & Wallace of Thomaston, Maine, Part 1

Newbert & Wallace of Thomaston, Maine, Part 1

The Education of Myles Thurlow: A Proper Apprenticeship

The Education of Myles Thurlow: A Proper Apprenticeship

The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why)

The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why)

Projects at Two Daughters Boatworks

Projects at Two Daughters Boatworks

Surprise Me