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Jack Stone’s Senior Project: My son Jack chose to build a boat for his senior project in high school, and here's a video we made for his presentation... |
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DAVID B – One Boat, Two Hearts: A skilled mechanical tinkerer and a gifted naturalist/cook turn their combined talents to the restoration of an ancient... |
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SPARKLE: The Boat to Beat: In 1947, two NASA rocket scientists started playing around with sailboat design. The result was SPARKLE: the boat to bea... |
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Stepping a Mast with a Gin Pole: A do-it-yourself method for stepping a mast with a gin pole that makes the job simple and elegant... and saves you money... |
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Sanding Station: Tired of the sawdust from sanding? See the sanding station system Bill Thomas put together to more than solve that prob... |
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Stitching Oar Leathers: From the placement of oar leathers on the shaft, to the stitching technique, to attaching the button, see the entire pro... |
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Building Interiors Upside Down: Building hulls upside down happens these days more often than rightside up, but keeping them that way while building the... |
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Pocock Classic Racing Shells: What do you get when you cross a violin maker with a boatbuilder? We imagine it might look something akin to what happen... |
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Drilling Holes with Boring Bars: Have you ever wondered how they bore a 10+ ft straight hole through a hull? Let's take a trip to a few boatyards and let... |
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No-Fuss Wooden Boat Maintenance: A yearly plan makes maintaining a traditional wooden lobster boat and its plywood lapstake tender a breeze. Brian Larkin... |
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The Off Center Crew |
 | Celebrating 10 Years Together: Crossing the bar of our 10th anniversary has prompted us to stop and ask two questions: "What are we doing, and why are... |
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 | Enhancing a Cape Cod Marlin: The fiberglass-hulled Marlin design came about in the late 1950s when Cape Cod Shipbuilding asked Sidney Herreshoff to m... |
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Bill Mayher |
 | Bill Page: Market Maker: Here’s an updated version of a piece I wrote about Bill Page back in 2014; it was first published in WoodenBoat No. 24... |
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Steve Stone |
 | New Off Center Skiff for Sale: This brand new Off Center Skiff is being launched today, and then auctioned off in a sealed-bid silent auction. She look... |
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Harry Bryan |
 | Am I A Luddite?: Am I A Luddite? Some Thoughts On Where We Are And Where We’re Going On a recent trip across the country by train, I fe... |
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 | GRAMP Heads to Mystic Seaport: What's GRAMP, and what's this trip all about? GRAMP is one of the very best of the V-bottom designs of William H. Hand,... |
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 | Visiting Bill Garden: Bill Page recently alerted me to this video - an excerpt from "Throwbacks to a Golden Age of Northwest Boats" - that fea... |
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Steve Stone |
 | The Secret to Happiness, Part 2: At Off Center Harbor, we like encourage the ideas of slowing down, getting out into nature in simple boats, and making t... |
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Havilah Hawkins |
 | Why This Skiff?: Note: The new skiff that we're building in Brooklin this summer with local kids was designed by Havilah Hawkins. In a wo... |
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Geoff Kerr |
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Doug Hylan |
 | The Albury Runabout: In the not very distant past, the subsistence farming and fishing economy of the Bahamas employed large numbers of saili... |
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 | Restoring SPARKLE: NOTE: Originally published as an article in Classic Boat magazine in March 2011, we're happy to share the writing and ph... |
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 | My Thoughts on Power Tools: Last winter as we completed the planking of a 26’ lap-strake powerboat, I was offered the use of a random orbit sander... |
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Havilah Hawkins |
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Doug Hylan |
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Brian Larkin |
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 | Scrollwork and How to Carve It: Boats planked with wood lend themselves so beautifully to carved-in decoration that it's surprising you don't see more o... |
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 | The “Radical” Skeg: Eric Blake and Steve Stone stopped by Friday afternoon to check out a 30' oak keel we're getting ready to install. I'll... |
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 | My Winter Boatbuilding Projects: It's the beginning of March and spring is on its way! The view from the design office at the Brooklin Boat Yard is inspi... |
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 | Restoring an Old Iceboat: I freely admit, I am drawn to old stuff. To me it is the way that it brings people together in modern times, to tell sto... |
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 | Peening Rivets Faster: Long-lasting copper rivets can't be beat for fastening planks to frames. Here's a faster and easier way of peening rivet... |
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 | I Feel Like I Can Make Anything: MORE INFO ON IYRS: IYRS School of Technology and the Trades is one of the top boatbuilding and restoration schools in th... |
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Steve Stone |
 | A Second Life: It's not often that any of us get to have a second life, doing something we love that is totally different than our life... |
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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... |
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Steve Stone |
 | Camel Finds Water: Probably too old for this myself, but I hope my kids do it someday:... |
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Eric Blake |
 | Be Inspired, by Steve Van Dam: This short little ad says a lot about one of the finest custom boat builders — Steve Van Dam. For more inspiration, se... |
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 | Anchor Point: What a remarkable story of forgiveness and grace. Thanks to J.T. Van Zandt, a fly-fishing guide in central Texas, for op... |
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Old School Tools, Made by Hand: Gila, NM is a long way from a deep water anchorage, but I'm sure many of us can identify with the values imbued in this... |
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Traditional Greek Boat Building: Traditional greek boat building methods are portrayed in this well-done short film by The Society for the Protection of... |
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Dustin Urban |
Caulking Wooden Boats: In this Tips from a Shipwright video, Louis Sauzedde shares some trademark tips and tricks he uses when caulking wooden... |
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Dustin Urban |
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Repairing a Herreshoff 12.5: Here's a great series documenting the repair of a leaky Herreshoff 12.5 (or 12-1/2-footer, as some put it). Created by F... |
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Website for Herreshoff: OCH members interested in the works of Herreshoff Mfg. Co. will love this new site posted by the MIT Museum. Here, you... |
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Quiet Tune: Among the loveliest boats ever built--and we don't say this lightly--is Quiet Tune, the L. Francis Herreshoff ketch. In... |
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Allspice by Coire Williams: Very cool slideshow by our friend Coire Williams as he constructs a traditional dinghy from a half model a carved under... |
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Båtbygge med Hemming Forsell: Building a boat doesn't get anymore down-to-earth than this. No glue; no plywood. It takes place in Perna, Finland, in 1... |
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