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From CAD to Catamaran: Sail Life Crafts New Hatches for Spiffy
Mads and Ava of Sail Life are back, tackling another crucial repair on their 44 ft hurricane-damaged DIY catamaran, Spiffy. The immediate problem? Leaky, temporary plywood hatch covers that allowed a "massive amount of water" into the port forward cabin. This...
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Acorn to Arabella: Making Headway
Arabella, the Atkins ketch being constructed in the backyard boat shop of Steve Denette’s Massachusetts property, is looking more like a yacht and less like a woodworking project. With the...
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Building the Ram’s Horn Sled with Shipwright Skills – Part 2
In part 2 of Keith Mitchell’s Rams Horn sled build, we see the sled that he started in Part 1, come to life with its beautiful curved “horns,” metal bracing,...
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Narwhal Labs: Casting a McRib in Epoxy Resin
Things are never as you might expect when you peek behind the doors of Narwhal Labs, the makerspace that lives inside the TotalBoat HQ. The team there is on a...
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Building the Ram’s Horn Sled with Keith from Shipwright Skills – Part 1
Shipwright Keith Mitchell is a bit of a legend when it comes to making things of wood that actually matter. Things like boats, beautiful fishing nets, spoons – intentional items...
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Epoxy Fillers: How & When to Use Them
What are Epoxy Fillers? Epoxy fillers are used to thicken liquid epoxy for various purposes other than coating or wetting out fiberglass. With fillers, you can use one epoxy system...
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Building a Carbon Fiber Ripsurf
We’re back with entertaining Friday videos to share with you, and there is no better place to start than in our own Narwhal Labs makerspace where the team put a...
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Table Top Epoxy Problems and How to Prevent Them
Working with table top epoxy is a piece of cake, right? Just mix 1 part resin with 1 part hardener, stir, and pour. But if you don’t do it right,...
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TotalBoat Tips Videos for Project Success
The TotalBoat team has been busy working on videos loaded with tips to help you succeed with your projects when you’re baffled by unforeseen setbacks. It’s easy to feel stumped...
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BourbonMoth: Learning To Be a Boatbuilder
It’s ok to laugh at Jason Hibbs, the comical bearded woodworker turned boatbuilder from Oregon. He’s making fun of himself and his lack of nautical know-how as he takes on...
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Restoring Knees with Acorn to Arabella
Steve and Alix (Yes, Alix is back!) from the Acorn to Arabella project aren’t slowing down with progress on Arabella, the Atkins ketch they are building in their backyard. Steve...
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A Mysterious Project with Troy from Arbortech
Join us at Noon today for an exciting, and likely very spooky and mysterious Premiere of our Video of the Week! We’ve met and mingled several times with Arbortech representative...
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River’s Edge Countertop with Jess Crow
In honor of TotalBoat Ambassador Jess Crow‘s birthday, we bring you an impressive technique that Jess has mastered. It’s also the one year anniversary of TotalBoat and Jess’s launch of MakerPoxy, the...
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