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As the 2026 WoodenBoat School season comes to an end, we offer this glimpse of the school from mid-June, when WoodenBoat magazine editor Matt Murphy took a day away from...
Think of every cliché that has to do with nothing under the sun being new, that what goes around comes around, that history repeats itself or at least rhymes....
Posted August 30th, 2026 - Across the Bar: Sam Johnson,81, March 22, 2026, Astoria, Oregon.
Posted: August 29th, 2026 - Friend Memorial Library expansion is underway as construction for the Anne and Maynard Bray Maritime Research Center was started in April 2026.
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WoodenBoat issue 312 featuring the repowering of classic designs with modern electric motors, we meet VEGA, a launch from Maine’s Cranberry Islands built in the 1930s, then WOMBAT cold-molded in 1992 to a 1915 design by William Hand who pioneered the concept of V-bottomed hulls for powerboats. Further along is TOODLIN’, a 19′ Glen-L runabout that recently had her 5.4-liter V8 inboard motor replaced with a 40kW (about 53-hp) electric outboard.
Our videos offer both brief, and in-depth, lessons in boatbuilding, seamanship, and related crafts; they also deliver inspiration in the series WoodenBoat Legends, which tours viewers through the world’s best wooden boats, and connection with WoodenBoat luminaries through the series WoodenBoat Live.
Learn about reading plans, hanging planks, interior joinery, half models, finishing and more...
Learn about propper tool use, shop setup and even the making of specialty tools associated with boatbuilding and woodworking.
Learn skills for sailing as well as powerboat operation.
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From the Archive offers a curated selection of articles from past issues of WoodenBoat—timeless stories, practical knowledge, and memorable boats brought back into view. It’s a chance to revisit the depth of the magazine and rediscover pieces worth reading again.
Asa Thomson was a New Bedford, Massachusetts, boatbuilder who clearly had a great deal...
The Breton shipwright Benoît Cayla has led a string of remarkably efficient and intense...
Save a Classic is about saving needy boats and putting potential buyers in touch...
THORA and INVERNESS sail together where Cheryle St. Onge and Vince Todd built a...
WoodenBoats's Herreshoffs and Havens are hard to discern and are considered the best all-around...
Richard Jagels weighs the pros and cons of selecting a solid or hollow mast...
5 Tips for Choosing and Sawing Wood Stock Over several decades of working with...
Do trees produce wood of a certain hardness in response to climate signals? The...
Ancient cultures once used tree resins to make shellac for interior wood finishes. Could...
Viable boat-restoration candidates often exist in seemingly hopeless cases, if one can see beyond...
Sam Devlin’s Candlefish designs for large tiller-steered outboards with strong traditional sheerline with real...
For his Workboat design, Paul Gartside began with lines he’d taken from an inboard...
Joel White’s Flatfish design is a centerboard modification of the N.G. Herreshoff−designed Fish class.
Delve into JF Bedard's sketchbook to learn more about electric-power in the marine world...
Two schooners as an experiment with friends who admire the rig and the result...
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