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Lou Sauzedde’s ORCA Build Has Begun
This is the start of the project we have all been waiting for: building ORCA! Lou Sauzedde from Tips from a Shipwright has started the build of a full size replica of the boat, Orca, from the movie JAWS. Tune...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: The Gunwale Caps
Follow Lou out back to his lumber stack to check on the remaining boards left for the Work Skiff project. With only a few remaining pieces, Lou has the few...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: The Guards
We’re finally back with Lou and the TotalBoat Work Skiff is looking very sharp with the spray rails, the inwales and the guards which have now been attached. There is plenty...
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The TotalBoat Work Skiff: Fitting the Breast Hook & Quarter Knees
After finding and forming the perfect timber for the breast hook of the TotalBoat Work Skiff, Lou fits it perfectly into the bow and works to do the same aft...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: Steaming The Breast Hook
After selecting the most perfect timber he could scout from a fan’s wooded lot in New York, Lou is ready to cut, shape and steam the large piece of oak....
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: Installing the Lift Rails
Welcome back to you and to superstar shipwright, Louis Sauzedde, who needed a long winter’s nap to stock up energy for finishing off the TotalBoat Work Skiff. We are past...
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The TotalBoat Work Skiff Series – Q&A With Louis Sauzedde
Lou Sauzedde is nearing the 25th episode of the series, Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff. So he thought it would be a good time to get to answering lots of...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: Designing The Sheer
With the TotalBoat Work Skiff upright and ready for more work on the topsides, Lou gets right to work designing the sheer. This sweeping angle at the front of the...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: Attaching the Runners
If you caught last week’s episode, then you saw Louis Sauzedde selecting the planks for the runners. In episode 22, Lou is ready to attach the runners and apply some...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: Ripping the Runners
Episode 21 finds Master Shipwright, Louis Sauzedde, with the perfect plank he needs to construct the runners he will be attaching to the bottom of the TotalBoat Work Skiff. Lou explains...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: TotalFair for the Fasteners
Louis Sauzedde worked hard to put the fasteners for the TotalBoat work skiff in just the right location, and at just the right depth. And now to prepare for painting...
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Building the TotalBoat Work Skiff: Hang Over & Cut Off Method
We are finally back in the Open Door Boatshop with Louis Sauzedde and his TotalBoat Work Skiff project. It’s time to trim the bottom planks that were attached and left...
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