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We explore a broad range of practical approaches to wooden boat restoration and repair. Draw inspiration for your own projects as you watch shipwrights, pro boat builders and seasoned mariners tackle their own wooden boat repair and restoration projects.

Get a personal lesson from a master caulker, learn the ins and outs of refastening or follow the restoration of classics from Herreshoff S-Boats to a Grand Manan wooden lobster boat. We’re surrounded by masters bringing incredible vessels back to life, and we hope our wooden boat repair and restoration videos and posts inspire you to tackle your own projects with enthusiasm.

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Worldwide Classic Boat Show Presentation – Lead Instructors from Boatbuilding Schools: The future of boatbuilding looks bright and these are the guys who would know....

Fiberglassing an Old Wooden Boat – A New Life for CHARLENA: When it came to the lobster boat CHARLENA’s situation, it was either the burn pile or reviving her with fiberglass and...

A New Zealand Boat Shop Visit to Brookes Boatbuilders: One of our favorite past-times is visiting boat yards to take walkabouts with talented boatbuilders, and Peter Brookes o...

RIPTIDE – A 1927 Cruiser Coming Back to Life: The roaring '20s were a boom time for recreational boating and nowhere are the joys and aesthetics of the time more enjo...

Scribing & Maintaining a Waterline, With a Batten and a Pull-Saw: Havilah Hawkins shows us how to make and maintain a classic looking waterline on your wooden boat....

Removing Paint from a Wooden Boat – Rhythm, Heat and a Scraper: Pride in one's work is never more evident than here-watching Havilah Hawkins take on the task of removing paint efficien...

WIZARD – Herreshoff’s Fishers Island 31: The restoration of the Herreshoff designed and built Fishers Island 31 by boat builder Brion Rieff not only achieves a s...

Restoring Mink, a 1914 Buzzards Bay 25, Part 4 – A New Set of Old Style Sails: In our final visit aboard MINK, we learn about the new suit of old-style sails made for the 1914 Buzzards Bay 25. Sailma...

Building Momentum, Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding: Eric Blake joins Head instructor Sean Koomen for a tour of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock,...

Restoring Mink, a 1914 Buzzards Bay 25: Part 3 – Putting Exact Period Details in Place: We visit with MINK's owner and chief researcher to learn about how they put exact period details in place on the 1914 Bu...

Restoring MINK, a 1914 Buzzards Bay 25, Part 1 – An Uncommon Approach: Over the last century, the Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 25 has lived a storied history indeed. Now, one of the five boats t...

Handsaws for Boatbuilding, with Harry Bryan: When it comes to handsaws, whether you're working with plywood or natural stock, Harry Bryan knows which saw is the be...

Schooner BOWDOIN Gets a New Deck: When OCH visited the schooner BOWDOIN to see the progress of her new deck, a job which called for the precise joining of...

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...

Boats Worth Restoring, PORPOISE Gets New Frames: What makes a good candidate for wooden boat restoration? Meet PORPOISE: A one-of-a-kind, handsome little pocket cruiser...

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...

Installing Floor Timbers in a Wooden Boat, Part 1 – Making the Pattern: It's better to have a whole boat, rather than two halves. Installing floor timbers in a wooden boat ties everything toge...

Installing Floor Timbers in a Wooden Boat, Part 2 – Cutting & Fitting Big Oak: Handling big oak timbers is an art unto itself. Peter Buxton passes along valuable tips while he's installing floor timb...

Installing Floor Timbers in a Wooden Boat, Part 3 – Fastening with Drift Pins & Screws: Fastening the newly shaped piece of oak with drift pins to the keel, frames and planks is the final step of installing f...

Caulking a Wooden Boat, Part 4 – Tying Up Loose Ends: The Caulking a Wooden Boat series concludes with Geno taking us through some of the odds and ends of caulking. With an u...

Caulking a Wooden Boat, Part 3 – Oakum Caulking: In this segment of our wooden boat caulking series, we talk about oakum. With Part 3 being entirely dedicated to this wo...

Caulking a Wooden Boat, Part 2 – A Deeper Look at the Craft: Geno takes us through some of the intricacies of caulking a wooden boat, enlightening us to what a professional caulking...

Caulking a Wooden Boat Part 1, Tools and Basics: Geno Scalzo is a master caulker out of Owls Head, Maine. He has over 30 years experience caulking wooden boats, and he's...

Wooden Boat Repair — Refastening, Part 3 — New Screws & Bungs: The thrilling conclusion you have all been waiting for: New screws, tight bungs, and finishing touches get the refasteni...

Wooden Boat Repair — Refastening, Part 2 — Removing the Old Screws: John O'Donovan and Patrick Dole show us how to remove the screws from a 50-year-old Concordia 31. They show us the tools...

Wooden Boat Repair — Refastening Part 1 — Scoping Out the Job: Every wooden boat owner knows that refastening is in their future; but where do you begin? John O'Donovan and Patrick Do...

Wooden Boat Building Techniques: Steam Bending Oak Frames: Watching hot oak timbers go into a boat is fascinating. Join Maynard Bray as he describes how Brian Larkin reframes the...

Quick Wooden Boat Repair of a Stem and Plank Ends: So you've got a soft, rotting stem and plank ends? No problem! Eric Blake shows us that sometimes a load of common sense...

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