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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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Meet MJ Sailing: Barrier Coating and Boat Building
Matt and Jessica Johnson of MJ Sailing on YouTube, started their adventure in 2008 when they purchased their first boat, a 1998 Hunter 240. With no sailing experience, they participated...
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How to Use Mica Powder With Epoxy Resin
There are lots of ways to add sparkle to epoxy river tables, ocean wave effect tables, jewelry, coasters, paintings, turning blanks, and wall art. Glitter comes to mind of course,...
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The Art of Boatbuilding: Painting Tread and Varnishing with Lust
Bob Emser’s Haven 12 1/2 is looking very shipshape, and every piece of wood or pail of paint that he adds moves him that much closer to the finish line....
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Acorn to Arabella: Fairing and Painting the House Top
In the backyard boat shop of Steve and Alix who are building the Atkins ketch, Arabella, the boat is taking shape into a recognizable form that will be a beauty...
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Art of Boatbuilding: Installing and Varnishing New Seats
Bob Emser is back in his boat shop after healing up an injury that kept him from completing his nearly christened Joel White designed Haven 12 1/2. He’s using a...
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Fiberglassing Lou Sauzedde’s V-Bottom Skiff
Our favorite shipwright, Louis Sauzedde, is hard at work on the V-Bottom skiff that he’s building on his Tips From A Shipwright YouTube channel. He’s got a team of helpers...
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Fairing and Sanding the MV Dauntless
Welcome to another couple building a boat for the cameras and for all of us on YouTube. Building MV Dauntless is the 2-man team of Cassie and Carl, who are...
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Epoxy 101 with Boatworks Today
Is there ever enough information to have in our knowledge bank about using epoxy resin? Those of us who use it often would likely tell you that we are always...
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Stripping and Refinishing C-Shels Motoryacht
Cyndi and Shell are attempting the liveaboard lifestyle on their Tollycraft 44 Motoryacht. They’re another couple documenting their effort on their YouTube Channel, Searching for C-Shels. In this video, they’re...
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Refinishing a Teak Cabin Sole with Onne van der Wal
TotalBoat Lust Varnish – A Good Way to Restore Your Sole When you’re a world-renowned sailing photographer, world-class sailor, and self-proclaimed “lover of the sea” whose professional life has been...
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Restoring a Cabin Sole with Lust Matte Varnish
Step inside the refit of Onne van der Wal’s Grand Banks 32, Snow Goose. Onne, a nautical photographer by profession, previously documented his amazing restoration of a tired, older Pearson...
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Framing the Forward Cabin with the Sea Dreamer Project
Scott from Six Points WoodWorks is working on the forward cabin framing on his 41-foot wooden trawler that he is currently building in his backyard boatshed. A few years ago,...
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