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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.
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.
SWEET REMAINS, a 18′7″ open launch built to plans by Robert Steward by Alexander...
The Swan Point Garvey is the culmination of Russ Manheimer’s years of dreaming about...
Waldo Howland broke records between 1950 and 1966 when he imported and sold almost...
ESTER was designed to take advantage of waterline-based yacht-racing measurement rules with mahogany handrails...
It was one of those phone calls that you never forget. My wife and...
Photographs by Nancy Bourne Haley YMRA is a classic wooden sloop designed by John...
To avoid the blemishes of screw holes, try using these DIY slot-and-wedge clamps to...
Over the course of 80 years, the Amesbury Skiff from Lowell’s Boat Shop in...
A growing list of uses for boatbuilding and restoration
Over decades of cruising the Newfoundland and Labrador shores, the author was captivated by...
The James Cutter, designed by Jim Franken, favors traditional function and beauty over interior...
Explore the Bristol 27: a perfect blend of traditional design and modern features for...
Rhode Runner runabout combines classic style with modern construction, and it runs efficiently with...
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.
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