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Nate Rooks
Sailing a Restored Ingrid from WA to the Marquesas: I met these folks in the San Juans in the summer of 2021 as they were just about to head south after restoring their 196...
The Off Center Crew
Martin’s Boat: ...
Steve Stone
Fretwater Boatworks — Can’t Beat This Place for Fun: Fretwater Boatworks — a legendary someplace in the middle of nowhere....
Bill Mayher
Scoggie: From the furthest tip of Nova Scotia comes this sketch of a young boat builder with a philosophical turn of mind and an...
Steve Stone
Camp Cruising Georgian Bay In An Open Boat: If you’ve ever dreamed of heading way north to sacred waters with an open boat — to cruise for days without seei...
Steve Stone
Martin Litton’s Grand Canyon Dories: Thanks to Off Center Member Nathan Lunstrum for submitting this new Flotsam Video: The late Martin Litton believed the b...
Steve Stone
Denali’s Raven: Check out the primal beauty and strength in the land, people and life choices…...
Steve Stone
YUKON in Tasmania: It was a stunning afternoon yesterday in Tasmania — at the end of a beautiful sail on the old working ketch KERRAWYN w...
Steve Stone
A Maine Lobsterman, with E.B. White & Eugene Eaton: Since the beginning of OCH, I’ve wanted to grab the camera and jump aboard a lobster boat with one of the local Ma...
Steve Stone
Sailing Around the World in LA VAGABOND: Is it true that good things happen when you let go, take a leap of faith, and flow with the river of life? I love how Ri...
Steve Stone
Sailing the Northwest Passage in a Junk-Rigged Wooden Boat – Parts 1, 2 & 3: I first heard about Chris Bray from friends in Tasmania. Chris grew up circumnavigating the earth on a small sailboat wi...
Steve Stone
2015 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Video: Here’s a teaser video recap of the 2015 Australian Wooden Boat Festival recently released by the festival and gi...
Steve Stone
Tom Cunliffe Visits the Axe Yacht Club in South Devon: I just love this video. Off Center Guide Tom Cunliffe visits the Axe Yacht Club in South Devon and gives the lay of the...
Steve Stone
Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2013: Here’s a nice highlight video of the 2013 Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Can you tell we’re getting excite...
Dustin Urban
Wild Tasmania – Rock Climbing Freycinet National Park: As I explore films about the mythical land of Tasmania, this quirky story grabbed my attention. I have an affection for...
Eric Blake
Simple Living by the Sea in Northern Norway: This short film will put a smile on your face. Traditional boat building and simple living at its best in Northern Norw...
Dustin Urban
A Tribute to Martin Litton, Wooden Dory Pioneer & Grand Canyon Savior: My Grand Canyon visit with environmentalist and wooden dory pioneer Martin Litton began with a thunderous “BOOM...
Erik Sayce
Cruising Alaska, Part 3: In the final installment of the ‘Venture to Alaska’ series (check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here), 65-foot...
Steve Stone
New Zealand’s Akaroa Classic Boat Show: Some nice small classic boats and New Zealand scenery are on display in this video of the Akaroa Classic & Tradition...
Steve Stone
The Path of Yellowstone’s Rivers Changed by One Species: For those of you who, like me, enjoy being on boats because it brings us into the wild — here’s a remarkable pie...
Dustin Urban
Cruising Alaska, Part 2: In part two of ‘Venture to Alaska’, our hosts are cruising Alaska, and we’re treated to scenes of Alas...
Erik Sayce
The Inside Passage to Alaska: Part nature film, part super yacht advertisement, this video is chock full of great scenery from the inside passage to A...

 

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The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle — Our Favorite Place in this Great City: The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle has long set a standard for bringing people to the waterfront and getting them st...
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The Off Center Crew
Women of the Working Waterfront: Port Townsend: It takes only a brief stroll through a couple boat yards to feel that Port Townsend’s maritime trades are differen...
Guest Author
Cruising Downeast Maine by Rowboat: In the summer of 2014, Wes and Willy Reddick took off in Downeast Maine in their Marblehead dory, MARGOLO, using only oa...
Steve Stone
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Steve Stone
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Steve Stone
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Steve Stone
Tasmania & the Australian Wooden Boat Festival: The secret is out on Tasmania — this small, remote island-state of Australia just earned the #4 spot on Lonely Planet&...
Kaci Cronkhite
Wooden Boats from Tasmania, Part 3: Day Tripping North, then West: Now that it’s clear how heroic the mariners with wooden boats can be in modern Tasmania, and how wild the weather can...
Kaci Cronkhite
Wooden Boats from Tasmania, Part 2: Rescuing the 8-Meter Sailboat VARG: Mother Nature. Of course she’d take charge of my best laid plan for these OCH posts. As boaters, I know you’ll under...
Kaci Cronkhite
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Ellen Leonard
A Busy Day at the Victoria Classic Boat Festival: This August I passed through Victoria, British Columbia just as the Victoria Classic Boat Festival began.  How much fun...
Geoff Kerr
Iceland and Lofoten; A Trip of a Lifetime. A Blog by Geoff Kerr of Two Daughters Boatworks: I realize OCH is a boating themed site, but bear with me…there are boats to come. Suffice it to say that last March...
Ellen Leonard
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Guest Author
Georgia’s Golden Isles, a Guest Blog by Anne Bryant:     We’ve just spent a restful time sitting in one place for over a month. Historic Brunswick, Georgia,...
Eric Blake
Walkabout Costa Rica and Bangor, Maine: Christmas this year was a little different at my house. For the first time ever my family and I got away from it all. We...
Steve Stone
Westward Ho! Port Townsend and Beyond: On September 5th, Eric and I boarded a plane to Seattle, Washington to attend the Wooden Boat Festival and shoot a few &...
Geoff Kerr
An Exotic Vacation, Only a Day’s Drive Away—or, Call Me Ishmael: One of the two daughters and I took a few days off during the last week in August. She fleeing the last gasps of the DC...
Eric Blake
Walkabout in Port Townsend, Washington: I had the good fortune this spring to travel to another incredible mecca for wooden boats, Port Townsend, Washington. I...

 

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