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Building a Featherweight Roof: Duracell's Composite Bimini Takes Shape
Last week Matt and Janni from The Duracell Project tackled the supports for a new bimini on their Open 60 sailboat, Duracell. This week Matt moves up to the main event: a full composite hard top that will shade the...
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Tips for Spraying Gelcoat from Hold Fast Marine
Will from Hold Fast Marine has been working hard on creating helpful content for DIY boaters. We found his recent Gelcoat video to be very helpful, as we are very...
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Andy Miller’s Epoxy 101: Thickeners & Viscosities
Here is the video that will demystify and clarify all of your epoxy thickening questions and concerns. Andy Miller suffered through some overly runny epoxy that set back his Moppie...
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In the Boatyard with Sailing Parlay Revival
Meet Colin, another YouTubing sailor who has a few claims to fame, among them being his time spent as a crew member on the popular yachting TV Show, Below Deck....
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Thickening Epoxy The Right Way
Andy Miller had to make another video this week to clarify the mess he made on his Bertram Moppie transom rebuild last week. He found himself with sagging thickened epoxy...
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Andy Miller’s Lesson in Thickening Epoxy Resin
It’s great to be back inside Andy Miller’s boat shop where he is filming his Boatworks Today video series. Andy is still working on his Bertram Moppie rehab, and this...
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Working with Epoxy in Cold Weather
If cold weather has turned your workshop into a winter wonderland, as in, “I wonder if my resin will cure in cold weather?” or “I wonder why my epoxy is...
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Doing It Right The Second Time, for the Last Time
Meet Sailing Soulianis, another lucky couple making their way around the world on their boat. filming it all for us and YouTube. Kirk and Lauren are moving back aboard their...
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Epoxy Countertops on Expedition Evans – Part 2
Jade and Brett Evans were in the TotalBoat Makerspace, making new countertops for their Beneteau 50 and this week’s video gets to the fun part of building and designing their...
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Designing and Planning Epoxy Marble Countertops for a Sailboat – Part 1
We had a blast and learned a ton, too when Jade and Brett Evans of the YouTube Channel Expedition Evans came into our Narwhal Labs maker space at TotalBoat HQ....
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How to Measure Epoxy by Weight vs. Volume
Epoxy is the most finicky of all resins – if you don’t measure the components precisely, the material can stay tacky and never reach its full strength and hardness. The...
Read moreBuilding a Hard Top Bimini for a Cruising Catmaran
Jessica and Ryan have a pretty solid cruising program aboard their Lagoon 410, considering they are raising two babies aboard their liveaboard catamaran. But when Ryan decides it’s time to...
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Sea Dreamer Project: A Lesson in Temperature
Scott Smith is deep in the bilge of his trawler build, a 41′ Diesel Duck designed by George Buehler. He’s making sure to coat all the below-deck surfaces with a...
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