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This is the fourth and last blog on the different styles of construction that I have used in wooden boat building. Preceding blogs have covered Ca...

Time to wind up the Cold Molded Construction edition of this little trip through my old shipyard, my old photos and my old memories. The followi...

Now we are nearing the big day, launching. The hull has been faired and sanded and is ready for it's finish. The chosen product was Deks Olje, a ...

Boys and Girls,   Not sure which way to swing with this blog… I think I’ve boxed myself in,                                                        ...

To answer some of the questions asked about the keel bolts after my last entry, here are some photos from Friendship that show the process a litt...

One of the interesting tools that find a regular use in building boats is the boring bar. After the hull is finished and the time comes to instal...

Once the hull is planked, it is skinned with 6 oz. fiberglass cloth set in epoxy and faired using several tinted coats of a high build epoxy prim...

This is the third in a series of blogs on the different types of wooden boat construction I've done. The first two covered traditional carvel pla...

One of the more common complaints against wooden boats is leaking decks. With a traditional caulked deck this can certainly be a challenge. Decks...

  I have to apologize for my lack of a lot of photos of this stage. I guess it just seemed to boring to take a lot of photos at the time. Anyway t...

Probably the most anticipated part of building a wooden boat is the planking. The old boat builder I learned from used to call it "boardin' 'er up"...

Looks like some of you might like to see a little more boatbuilding (and I need to rescue my blogs from oblivion) so here goes. - These are twelve...