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Guide Posts are written articles with accompanying still photos and/or video clips, usually written by our team of expert Guides and Founders, who each have many decades of experience.

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Three Tricks of the Rigging Trade

Three Tricks of the Rigging Trade

Why Choose A Traditionally Built Boat?

Why Choose A Traditionally Built Boat?

Good Reads: Recommendations by Karen Sullivan

Good Reads: Recommendations by Karen Sullivan

A Tale of Two Block Planes: Harry Bryan Reviews the Stanley 12-960 Low Angle Block Plane

A Tale of Two Block Planes: Harry Bryan Reviews the Stanley 12-960 Low Angle Block Plane

Schooner BOWDOIN Re-Topping: Some Intriguing Details

Schooner BOWDOIN Re-Topping: Some Intriguing Details

Tom Robinson’s Solo Row Across the Pacific – Update #2 from Tom’s Shore Team

Tom Robinson’s Solo Row Across the Pacific – Update #2 from Tom’s Shore Team

Good Reads: Recommendations by Lin & Larry Pardey

Good Reads: Recommendations by Lin & Larry Pardey

BONNY BRIDE Progress — Restoring a Wooden Lobster Boat, Part 8: A New-Old Engine

BONNY BRIDE Progress — Restoring a Wooden Lobster Boat, Part 8: A New-Old Engine

Cambodian Canoes, Part 1: Monastic Racing Canoes

Cambodian Canoes, Part 1: Monastic Racing Canoes

A DAY’S WORK, Part II—an excerpt

A DAY’S WORK, Part II—an excerpt