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A few years ago we discovered the precision and clarity by which digital videos illuminate the boating world. This revelation ultimately led to the creation of OffCenterHarbor.com with its mission of building a diverse collection of the best boat videos on the web. Enjoy...

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Advanced Rowing with Havilah Hawkins, Part 1 – Techniques and Maneuvers: Whether it's how to feather properly for grace or navigating a crowded dinghy basin- this video will help us keep our di...
Slow August – Nahmakanta: Early morning at Nahmakanta Lake Camps in Maine’s North Woods. Mists, mountains, alone on the dock, and a moment all t...
KATIE’s Cradle, A Tidal Flat Mooring: The tidal flat of Harry's Cove is the perfect place to cradle a boat to protect it from the weather or get some maintena...
Slow August – Cradle Cove: Sculling; ambling; mosey to the mooring, It's a beautiful day...why hurry?...
Aboard MASON BAY, a Retirement Boat for Old Salts: Handsome, authentic, seaworthy, rugged, practical and fun to be aboard - for those intrigued by fish boat conversions, t...
Varnishing Tips & Techniques, Part 2 – Taping for Varnish: Among the varnishing triad: sanding, taping and brushwork, taping maybe the under-heralded skill. But when we watched Mo...
Des Townson’s SERENE, New Zealand’s Family-Friendly Cruiser/Racer: We’re always on the lookout for a really big little family-friendly cruiser/racer (that's not a typo), so naturally th...
Varnishing Tips & Techniques, Part 3 – Brushing Varnish: Moe is the Julia Child of varnishing. After watching her work, and hearing her tips and tricks, you’ll know stuff you...
A Completely Different Venture, Building Your Own Spitfire: We have a soft spot in our hearts for exceptional designs as well as for people who manage a career altering leap into a...
Varnishing Tips & Techniques, Part 1 – Sanding for Varnish: For a lot of us, a perfectly applied coat of varnish is an elusive (if not altogether impossible) dream. For Maureen Bar...
Mastering Epoxy with Russell Brown, Part 8 – Fill Coating: On the way to getting a smooth and strong fiberglassed finish over wood, these are the techniques and formulas we need t...
The Marine Photographer’s Eye, Benjamin Mendlowitz in New Zealand: When a photographer with as much experience as our own Benjamin Mendlowitz says of a fleet "I was newly inspired in my p...
SHANTY, a Proper Little Boat: Step aboard the gaff yawl SHANTY and meet her octogenarian skipper, who built her with his wife while living on one of N...
Mastering Epoxy with Russell Brown, Part 7 – Fiberglassing the Outside of a Hull: People say the step they fear the most in building a small plywood boat is the one calling for sheathing it in fiberglas...
Live Well, The Cruising Smack STORM BAY, with Tim Phillips: A cruise of glorious sailing along the Tasmanian coast aboard an authentic cruising smack. Fishing along the way for sup...
Going Fast with One Modest Engine, WHIO’s Propeller: When it comes to speed and economy in powerboats, we usually think about hull shape and horsepower first. But what about...
PACIFIC – One Boat, One Family, Five Generations: A little over a century ago, a farmer in New Zealand needed a way to get pumpkins and watermelons to market, and today P...
JANE – A Couta Boat Inspired Motor Sailer, with Tim Phillips: A motor sailer that sails like a witch? Count us in, JANE!...
Boat Shop Talk – Building Boats by Hand and by Eye, with Jim Tolpin: Listening to an expert talk about their craft is always a treat, but to be a fly on the wall when four of them get toget...
Harry Bryan’s Foot-Powered Wood Splitter: If you're heating with wood, have a sledge-hammer you can press into service, and can dig up one of those long, snake-li...
Mastering Epoxy with Russell Brown, Part 6 – Fiberglassing Flat Panels: Russell gets into the nitty gritty of applying a perfect workable layer of fiberglass over wood....
A Sail Aboard CORA, A New Zealand Mullet Boat: Over a century old with her original planking, once a work boat, now a family boat with a little racing on the side for...
At Home in the Bilge with Maynard Bray, Part 1 – How New Zealand’s Classics Were Built: How do you build wooden boats to last for over a century dependably? Ask the Kiwis, that's how they do it. So we went an...
Traditional Rigging, Part 11 – Seizing a Thimble in a Wire Grommet: Myles completes the throat halyard strop with a perfectly seized thimble....
Mastering Epoxy with Russell Brown, Part 5 – Fiberglass Tape & Peel Ply for Shallow Fillets: Russell shows us step by step through how to strengthening a fillet with fiberglass tape and revealing the use and effec...