Video - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, 91-Foot Cutter SONNY

...panel, we swear that we heard angels singing at the sight of Ronnie Billings’ electrical masterwork. This boat was a joint project between Rockport Marine (hull and deck) and Brooklin Boat Yard, with hefty contributions by quite a few other companies. Eric was project manager for Brooklin Boat Yard....

Video - Brooklin Boat Yard Walkabout, June 2023

...uilders. Just awesome! Bill Page Nice job Eric, very impressive as to what Brooklin Boat Yard has become. Joel would be pleased….. BRUCE HINMAN Just a lovely collection of marine beauty. Not a runt in the litter! Another great narration from Eric. James Thomas With the new boats, there's such an amazing synergy between traditional aesthetics and engineering. I guess one might be offended by it, but American yacht design and construction, including...

Video - Brooklin Boat Yard Walkabout – January 2019

...ect for the traditional and the aggressive use of modern technology at the Brooklin Boat Yard. Classic yachts for sure. David Tew At one time I worked for a corporate aircraft company building interior units out of several different types of honeycomb (aluminum, nomex, etc.) veneered panels, often with very exotic woods. They were fastened to the air frame with epoxy-potted inserts and bolts. I'd be interested to know the various ways your units a...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard — Foam Core Hull on the Frers 74′ Sloop

...u have developed. Thanks Fred Nate Rooks Hi Fred - I'm not sure exactly where you're referring to, but have some ideas. First, we have Dream Boat Harbor, some of our favorite boats for sale around the internet: https://www.offcenterharbor.com/dream-boat-harbor-good-boats-for-sale/ Then, we also have the classifieds section on the Worldwide Classic Boat Show: https://classicboatshow.com/classified/ Those both have prices and contact info, however -...

Video - LARK, a Spirit of Tradition Sailboat from Brooklin Boat Yard

...LARK, a spirit of tradition sailboat from Brooklin Boat Yard turns heads both on the mooring and on the race course: It’s two-finger rail-down sailing as good as it gets and the birth of a new one-design class....

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

...aintenance. KATRINKA is an elderly ocean racer designed by Bill Tripp, Jr. Brooklin Boat Yard did a complete overhaul on her a few winters back. Her fiberglass hull was tired, but the owners were committed to bringing her back to her original glory. We took off the entire deck and completely stripped out the hull right down to its skin and started over. Today, KATRINKA looks as good as new. She is flush-decked with a canvas dodger and high coaming...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 6 – 12/1/12

...Eric Blake’s weekly walkabouts, the boats he describes being built new in Brooklin Boat Yard’s main shop are a pair of 47’ daysailers designed originally by Bob Stephens and later tweaked by Eric, Keith Dibble, and others here at the yard. (Two others of the same design, LENA and LARK, were built here earlier.) The other new construction for this winter is the 70’ Dieter Empacher-designed SONNY—a duplicate of an earlier sloop of the same name tha...

Flotsam - Sandy Hook Remembrance Sculpture Built at Brooklin Boat Yard

...k and Todd! Chad Brown Thank you to the Artists and all of the crew at The Brooklin Boat yard for your beautiful sculpture. When I reflect on my troubles in life, they become so insignificant to that of losing a child. My heart aches for what is going on today in our culture. ROB BLACKBURN I probably shouldn't say anything but watching from afar from Oz and knowing absolutely nothing of the local issues, both current and historical, I just can't u...

Guide Post - Building Wooden Boat Steering Wheels at Brooklin Boatyard

The steering wheels that come from most boats at the Brooklin Boat Yard are some of the coolest I’ve seen up close. My boss Steve’s boat Vortex has one of the first of this kind built. Having sailed Vortex and been at her wheel for a trip back from Newport, I can attest to how comfortable they are to steer with. On a long offshore passage there isn’t much to look at, why not have something unique to ponder over. The jig is made to the inside diam...

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

...a shame not to give all of you OCH members an inside look at the mayhem at Brooklin Boat Yard as it unfolds. So, once a week, I’ll plan to run around the yard and shop with my camera and bring you along. Shown above is CIRRUS, a Fishers Island-31 designed and built by Herreshoff in 1930. She has long been considered the queen of the fleet and has graced the waters of Center Harbor longer than any other boat I know of. NORTH WIND is a real sweethea...

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

...freefalling into construction details of an unknown craft here at Brooklin Boat Yard. Here is a shot of the new boat’s sister named LARK, a 47′ cedar-and-carbon fiber daysailer we built last winter shown romping up Eggemoggin Reach on her trial sail with the owner at the helm, grinning ear-to-ear. The success of her maiden summer has brought orders for two more. It is the construction of this new pair as well as the construction of a 70′ cold-mold...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 3 – 10/14/12

...ilding a single new boat, the guys in service bay get to see many. Back to Brooklin Boat Yard’s main shop and the first of this winter’s pair of 47-footers, we finished the strip planking Monday morning. Notice that the football-shaped section of planking at the very bottom looks (and is) different. In this highly-stressed section of hull, vertical grain Douglas-fir planking (a stronger species) is substituted for the red cedar the rest of the boa...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard – Winter 2016

...It has been a while since my last walkabout, so I thought it was time to get everyone back through the doors of the Brooklin Boat Yard and see what has been going on the winter of 2016.  ...

Video - Fiberglassing an Old Wooden Boat – A New Life for CHARLENA

...and decks repairs, but not in sheathing? Try to see the big picture. It is boats and boating. Harold Wheeler Eric Seems like common sense, Find a boat you love and save it. Have not seen a new boat that would still be around 75 years from now, or worth saving. Have to come see her in person this summer. Thank you to OCH crew for all you do for us. Ralph Wernett When you come across a keeper you it becomes part of your life.... Love to see updates....

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 5 – 11/11/12

...as remade by Brion Rieff over the past few winters for Jon Wilson of WoodenBoat—a pretty cool makeover. The lobsterboat with the green housetop is one of two commercial boats that fish out of here. She has a fiberglass hull lifted off an old Ralph Stanley plank-on-frame boat. The light gray sloop in the background is GRAY GOOSE, a racer/cruiser designed and built by Bob Derecktor for himself. She has done a number of offshore races and, as I under...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 7 — 2/1/13

...ping point. Rolling a hull is a good chance to have a look at how fair you got it, and also an opportunity to pray that you’ll never see the hull in this position again. The long and the short of it is that I am glad to be back at work again. Working in a custom boat shop with 60 people building 196 feet of boat if placed end to end, makes me smile. Asking a guy to move his 70′ keelson so I can get this 47′ carbon fiber-and-cedar hotrod through th...

Guide Post - The Sterns of Brooklin Boat Yard

...nd lying upside down on the bench with glue applied, ready to clamp on the boat. Notice the piles of shavings on the floor and bench. Best to keep your edge tools sharp. The taffrail is now all clamped up with a reference screw on the centerline to position it, and with lead weights and clamps applying pressure to the chocks until the epoxy cures. 98% of boatbuilding is finding ingenious ways to clamp awkward things. The two clamps at the center a...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 8 – 2/13/13

...s and bulkheads onto the inboard face of the sheer clamps to represent the boat’s sheer. A long batten is then used to draw a fair curve through these points, giving us a line to plane to while they rest on a few sawhorses so we can work comfortably. The sheer clamps are sanded sweet and given two coats of clear epoxy before installing them permanently back onto the setup. Here is a look at the keelson, ready to lift off the hull and be brought to...

Guide Post - Walkabout at Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 9 – 2/28/13

...ted gray. They are triangular in shape to fit under the settees. While the boats are 47′ long, their long overhangs and low freeboard make for a small interior. Here is a look at the galley of the first boat, which has a refrigerator drawer on the port side with a two-burner stovetop set in the counter above it. A sink, with a bank of drawers under it, will occupy the starboard side. The interior style of this boat is modern and clean, having whit...

Guide Post - Walkabout Brooklin Boat Yard, Part 10 – 3/24/13

...And it is on to the next biggest problem. Now that the hull’s of the three boats are complete it is time to cut some large hole’s in the bottom of them. On the 70 the hole for the rudder was cut while the hull was still upside down. A boat is as level as it will ever be before removing it from it’s building jig. Here what you see is a portable drill press made by Milwaulkee. The chuck travels up and down by turning the spokes much like an upside d...

Video - How to Build a Wooden Boat — AROHA, Part 1 – A Close Look at the Original Boat WHIO, a New Zealand Weekend Cruiser

...ining building location in my 2-story barn. We live a couple of hours from Brooklin Boat Yard. Will drop by to purchase CNC kit. Beautiful boat. Excellent video (my 101th viewing). Steve Stone Hi Anthony. Beam is 7'0" and we've added that to the specs above. Steve Stone Hi Loren. Is your question referring to building this boat yourself or having a boat yard build one? Harold Conover She's a Babe,,I like her.. Paul Joske So elegant, clean and simp...

Video - The Joy of Having a Boat Built: An Outboard Cruiser Takes Shape

...e....fishing camping you name it....so it is in my mind to build a pontoon boat or small plywood boat that I and my wife can enjoy without been paying for it until we die......you know what I mean with that!!!! thank you for invite me in.......and thank you for shinning the light of knowledge on boating.......RAMON George Weinbrenner Beautiful how she rides her lines. Neil Thompson Here on the N.W coast of America, the outboard is usually proudly...

Video - Building the Oonagh Rowing/Sailing Dinghy, Part 1 – A Real Rib Alternative

...Hylan Hi Ants, Trends in boating often go down unfortunate paths — IOR sailboats and deep vee powerboats come quickly to mind. The ubiquitous RIB dinghy seems to me one of the most unfortunate, having a list of disadvantages that stretches far. The OONAGH design is my attempt to incorporate the RIB’s few advantages into a boat with as few of it’s shortcomings as possible. You are certainly correct that there is little untried in the world of boat...

Video - How to Build a Wooden Boat – AROHA, Part 16 – Glassing, Priming, and Flipping the Hull

...as included in the photos featuring the build of my Somes Sound 12 1/2 sailboat in June 2015 Small Boats Monthly web site and also in the 2016 Small Boats publication by Wooden Boat. Andy Hecker In the moldless composite aircraft world, we never put epoxy/microballoons under glass because it's not structural. We use it to seal foam core because it's stronger than foam, but it's weaker than everything else.. How can you get away with putting a non-...

Video - LEGEND – The New Wheeler 38, A Modern Interpretation of Hemingway’s PILAR

...s Rufo This is why I want to work at BBY! Patrick Alvey Where do you buy a Brooklin Boat Yard T shirt? scott hitt it immediately conjured up memories of nites spent reading Hemingway...ahhhh such romance! the craftsmanship is incredible...amenities out the yang! simply brilliant! peace scott Nick Grumbles In case anyone is curious and would like to see the PILAR as she sits today, or in 2018 rather. Check out the google photos link below: https://...

Video - Sailing LILY – L. Francis Herreshoff’s Design # 43

...he faint gurgle of a bow wave.. Anne Bridgman What a lovely and well loved boat is Lily. When I sail my catboat of 25+ years with a new crew, I tell them she is an old friend. I bet Maynard feels the same. Bruce Abrahams Very enjoyable. Just list another hundred such demonstrations and I might learn something. Terry Williams Just a great day on the water. what else do you need. John Wujack If someone told me that they wanted to start sailing, I'd...

Video - How to Build a Wooden Boat, Plank-on-Frame Lobster Boat, Part 1 – Introduction

...series, and loved to hear that there would be "no vahnish." Cheers from the Tidewater Virginia Kent and Audrey Baden Pascoe Lovely looking boats. I love any boat based on a work boat concept....

Video - An Electrifiying Twist To The Gunning Dory: G.E.M.A. – The Gentleman’s Electric Mess-About

...night fishing in Long Island Sound. Steve Stone Hi John. The link to North Brooklin Boatyard and Eric Jacobssen is above in the Nav Further section. Maine Classic Boats Hi David, At a little under half throttle, say 2 - 3 knots she will go for 6 - 8 hours. At full throttle, a touch under 6 knots, she will go for about 1 hour. These estimates are from full charge to 20% of charge which you really do not want to get below very often. There are batte...

Guide Post - Announcing The Worldwide Classic Boat Show

...I would like to see in detail. Kennedy’s Manitou yawl. Bogart’s Santanna, Brooklin Boat Yard built, spirit of tradition, Anna. All boats that I have admired from afar. Thanx. Dave Gagne I like this idea. I hope you will invite/include classic wooden boats from the Great Lakes also. I have seen some beauties on Lake Superior, and have heard of many great woodenboats on Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Boatbuilding School ma...

Video - Sculling

...ked blade heavy. Wish I'd put in a pair off notohes when I retransomed the boat. But the boat is stable enough so I can stand one side and scull then swap sides. The advantage of the center line is that I usually don't bother taking along the rudder when I sail. Boat steers really well by shifting weight. And if I need it I can give a stroke or two with the oar. For people interested in sculling oar design, I finally got scanned copies of the arti...

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