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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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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...