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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 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.
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.
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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.
Tom Cunliffe has written 30 books ranging from histories to sailing manuals and cruising...
Bluewater sailing the sharpie ketch EGRET, the author’s interpretation of the design in 1886...
On June 6, 2023, as we rounded North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras, the split backstay...
WoodenBoats's Herreshoffs and Havens are hard to discern and are considered the best all-around...
The Spirit 35(F), an electric foiler launched by Spirit Yachts, using state-of-the-art foiling technology...
If you are a novice, afraid of making a mistake and worried your paint...
Mast hoop replacements are hard to find and expensive to purchase. We'll show you...
The author’s simple backrests, made of a two-layer lamination of steam-bent wood, are held...
Wooden bee rails mounted near the aft ends of booms to organize reefing lines...
The goal of this article is to interpret the varnish can's instructions, without writing...
The Naskeag 16 is an easily transported high-performance daysailer with a flat bottom panel,...
The Litl Coot motorsailer with twin-daggerboard trunks will run when propelled by her cat-yawl...
Osemka is 26 feet and can be set up as a coastal cruiser with...
The Kevin Dibley–designed Weekender 28 is traditional in its styling with moderate outboard power...
This 19’ sloop from Paul Gartside is a handy daysailer that offers minimalist accommodation...
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