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The Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA) was founded 50 years ago as an outgrowth of the Small Craft Workshop founded in 1970.
The yard at Chantier Naval Borg was originally opened in 1956 by a family from Tunisia. It's one of France’s historic boatyards.
On October 29, 2025, the 76′ Gokstad ship, built in the year 890 and excavated in 1880, was moved into a new wing of the Museum of the Viking Age.
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.
Profiles of great wooden boats—and their people
Online Exclusives brings together the full breadth of the WoodenBoat experience—from Maritime Life & Traditions to Getting Started in Boats, Study Plans, and a growing collection of Digital Books. It’s a place to learn, explore, and keep building your knowledge, all in one place.
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.
Sparkman & Stephens designed the New York 32s as seaworthy racer-cruisers and RAGAMUFFIN's layout...
JEANNE is a scaled-down Concordia 31 and is cute as a button. With a three-window...
BISH is a 28-footer designed by Murray Peterson in 1966 and is a traditional...
Cold-molding with environmental responsibility in mind
ON BELAY Photos by Bill Widrig ON BELAY, a 1935-designed 18′ Chris-Craft Deluxe Utility,...
Bandsaws are simple, practical, and indispensable for the boatwright. Explore the parts of the...
For repair use wood and epoxy to glue it in by routing out lozenge-shaped...
A 1944 rescue surfboat restored in a years-long project at the Cape Cod Maritime...
To row with a really nice pair of oars in a decent rowboat is...
Dr. Richard Jagels offers tips and insight into black mold removal from wooden boats....
ECCENTRIS is an unconventional motorboat, trailer-sailer, daysailer, catboat, and catamaran meant for a retired...
The Litl Coot motorsailer with twin-daggerboard trunks will run when propelled by her cat-yawl...
Dudley Dix’s Dedication 27 design no-compromise sportfishing machine with a extremely rugged hull structure.
Joel White’s Flatfish design is a centerboard modification of the N.G. Herreshoff−designed Fish class.
For his Workboat design, Paul Gartside began with lines he’d taken from an inboard...
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