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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.
The yard at Chantier Naval Borg was originally opened in 1956 by a family from Tunisia. It's one of France’s historic boatyards.
The Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA) was founded 50 years ago as an outgrowth of the Small Craft Workshop founded in 1970.
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.
Basic boatbuilding: reading plans, hanging planks, interior joinery, and half models
The basics—and more: painting, tools, sparmaking, and wooden canoes
Join us for Season 3, starting with small shop tools.
Join us for Season 4, starting with refastening wooden hulls
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.
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...
Picaroon’s hard-chined hull simplified construction for amateur builders. Click to read more about Sam...
WILD ROOSTER was sea-trialed in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in autumn 2023. Read our profile...
ROSE OF SHARON is a 1930 W. Starling Burgess designed schooner and currently sits...
ISLA, New York 32 No.10 (of a total of 20), was thoroughly rebuilt by...
A growing list of uses for boatbuilding and restoration
Over decades of cruising the Newfoundland and Labrador shores, the author was captivated by...
hen building a V-bottomed hull, it can be difficult to mate the edges of...
In the second part of this series, the class finishes out the completed hull.
Designer Eric Henseval has created a simplified trimaran structure with modern good looks, the...
Rhode Runner runabout combines classic style with modern construction, and it runs efficiently with...
Osemka is 26 feet and can be set up as a coastal cruiser with...
Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway has recently launched hull No. 1 of its Marta...
This 19’ sloop from Paul Gartside is a handy daysailer that offers minimalist accommodation...
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