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2023 Summer Make-Off Challenge: Boat Building Edition
To our entire Jamestown Distributors and TotalBoat community, we are honored and excited to announce that today begins the most awaited event of the summer: The TotalBoat Summer Make Off: Boat Building Edition! What started as just a wild...
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Video of the Week: Sea Dreamer’s Transom, Frames & A Name
Today for our backyard boat shop tour, we’re back inside the boat shed of Scott Smith and the Sea Dreamer Project, a home built “Diesel Duck” trawler. Like many of our...
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Acorn to Arabella: The Keel Timber
It was such a pleasure to host the Acorn to Arabella filmmaking boatbuilders at our Tent Sale a few weeks ago. They were perfect guests, entertaining our customers who were...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory – Episode 20
If you can’t make it next Saturday the 14th to our Annual Tent Sale to meet Louis Sauzedde and see the Dory in progress, then we really hope you’ll tune...
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Video of the Week: Acorn to Arabella Moves Their 4.5 Ton Keel
The Acorn to Arabella boatbuilders, Alix and Steve, had a plan when they poured their nearly 9000-pound lead keel into plywood molds in the ground. The plan was: figure out...
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Acorn to Arabella: How They Safely Poured A Lead Keel
There was an amazing buzz after we shared the Acorn to Arabella video of the two talented boatbuilding buddies doing some hard thinking about how to safely pour themselves a...
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The Ice Man Shreddeth
Today, we welcome guest blog star and TotalBoat Ambassador, Brock Callen. Brock lives on Martha’s Vineyard and sails all over the globe. But his heart thumps fastest when he’s going...
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Acorn to Arabella: Pouring 9500 lbs of Lead into a Wooden Mold
As we patiently wait for Lou Sauzedde’s return (APB! LOU IS OK! He will be back very soon – we promise!) we have been excited to follow along with the...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 13 – The Transom
Welcome back to Lou’s boat shop and to Episode 13 of Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory. Lou is working on the transom, slowly and precisely adjusting the fit and bevel...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 12 – The Stem
We’re back with some holiday cheer for you in the way of some Louis Sauzedde that we are certain you’ve been missing. Step back into the Open Door Boatshop and...
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TotalBoat Ambassadors Win The Seven Boat Volvo Ocean Race Fleet
Congrats to our two TotalBoat Ambassadors, Charlie Enright and Nick Dana, who have just thrown down an impressive victory in the seven boat Volvo Ocean Race fleet. Sure, it’s just the...
Read moreLou Shows Us How to Best Prep and Varnish a Boat
Calling all fans of our resident shipwright, Louis Sauzedde. While Lou is taking a break to catch up with the TotalBoat Sport Dory building this week, we are taking you...
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Patching a Hole in Fiberglass
TotalBoat Ambassadors Kent and Audrey Lewis from Small Boat Restoration in Florida did a great blog post about how to patch a hole in fiberglass. These pesky holes happen from...
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