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Mastering Skills is dedicated to the craft and related disciplines of wooden boat building. Videos are at the heart of our online educational offering and we post a new one each month, typically an hour or more in length. In each video I work with a master craftsman to deliver an in-depth lesson on the art and craft of boatbuilding.
A Mastering Skills membership includes access to every video we’ve ever posted, plus admission into an ever-growing library of books and an archive of articles from the pages of our print magazine, WoodenBoat. You will have this access as long as your account is active.
I look forward to seeing you in the classroom.
Rich Hilsinger | Host & Former WoodenBoat School Director
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Mastering Skills is a web-based education platform dedicated to the craft of wooden boat building. Join the Mastering Skills community today and receive:
- Unlimited access to our video library.
- Full-length technical articles from WoodenBoat Magazine.
- Boat building books and book excerpts.
- New content added weekly.
- Weekly newsletters.
- Conversation with passionate members and our crew through video and article comments.
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Still not convinced, please take a look at a sample of our content including a full-length video episode, an article from WoodenBoat Magazine, and a chapter from the book How to Build a Wooden Boat.
Creating Station Molds
Glued-Edge Carvel Planking
