Search With Filters

(Click the arrow to minimize)

Filtered (12)

On The Water (7)
In The Shop (5)

Fine Boat Designs (1)
The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why) (2)
Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard (1)

Medium Boats (25'-40') (4)
Small Boats (15'-24') (1)

Carvel/Plank-On-Frame (1)
Plywood-Epoxy (1)

Marconi/Bermudan Rigs (3)
Sloops (2)

1930s (1)
1940s (2)

Alex Irving (2)

Guide Posts Email these Posts to a Friend

Guide Posts are written articles with accompanying still photos and/or video clips, usually written by our team of expert Guides and Founders, who each have many decades of experience.

Search With Filters

Guide Posts Email these Posts to a Friend

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

BERET, A Low-Impact Coastal & River Cruiser by OCH Guide Doug Hylan

BERET, A Low-Impact Coastal & River Cruiser by OCH Guide Doug Hylan

Basket Case: Restoring a Watch Hill 15 at D.N. Hylan’s

Basket Case: Restoring a Watch Hill 15 at D.N. Hylan’s

SELKIE—My Personal Dreamboat: A 23′ Keel-centerboard Sloop

SELKIE—My Personal Dreamboat: A 23′ Keel-centerboard Sloop

Westward Ho! Port Townsend and Beyond

Westward Ho! Port Townsend and Beyond

James Wakefield Rescue Row on Lake Champlain

James Wakefield Rescue Row on Lake Champlain

Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 2 – 10/5/12

Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 2 – 10/5/12

The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why) – The Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 25, Herreshoff 12.5 & Whio

The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why) – The Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 25, Herreshoff 12.5 & Whio

Scrollwork and How to Carve It

Scrollwork and How to Carve It

Herstory Matters: the Spidsgatter Pax

Herstory Matters: the Spidsgatter Pax

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

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

Surprise Me Reload

Whatever Floats

Whatever Floats

Eastport Nesting Pram

Eastport Nesting Pram

Revisiting “Between Wind and Water” by Gerald Warner Brace

Revisiting “Between Wind and Water” by Gerald Warner Brace

Restoring the Herreshoff S-boat Mischief

Restoring the Herreshoff S-boat Mischief

Newbert & Wallace of Thomaston, Maine, Part 2

Newbert & Wallace of Thomaston, Maine, Part 2

Passage to the Aleutians; a Voyage Along the Alaskan Coast

Passage to the Aleutians; a Voyage Along the Alaskan Coast

Twenty-two-foot Cruising Catboat, Beautifully Depicted

Twenty-two-foot Cruising Catboat, Beautifully Depicted

A DAY’S WORK, Part II—an excerpt

A DAY’S WORK, Part II—an excerpt

Boat Photos from Maynard Bray, Part 1

Boat Photos from Maynard Bray, Part 1

Gannon and Benjamin 10′ Tender

Gannon and Benjamin 10′ Tender

Surprise Me