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Duracell’s Essential Upgrade: Securing Heavy Systems in the Open 60 Systems Room
Last week, Matt and Janni from The Duracell Project took us deep into the systems room of their Open 60 sailboat, Duracell, tackling a seemingly small but vitally important project that will be huge for the boat’s livability. While anxiously...
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Making a Fiberglass Panel with Boatworks Today
Last week Boatworks Today marine repair wizard, Andy Miller, started a great conversation about which resin system is preferred for fiberglass boat repairs: epoxy resin or polyester resin. His preferred...
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Clever Fiberglass Repair Tips with Boatworks Today
Clever solutions to tricky problems are best shared with our customers so you can get right to your repairs without the guesswork and pitfalls of trial and error. Count on...
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TotalBoat YouTube Ambassadors: Lessons in Learning
We’ve enjoyed discovering lots of new talents who are using and loving TotalBoat and sharing their experiences with their followers. YouTube has become a playground for makers and builders, dreamers,...
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Diresta’s Workshop: Using Epoxy to Make a Knife Handle
An old friend of the Maker Godfather, Jimmy Diresta, once said “There’s more than one way to build a boat,” and so he used plastic for a wooden boat’s frames...
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Acorn to Arabella: Cleaning Up and Working on Bronze Floors
We loved hosting Steve and Alix from Acorn to Arabella when they came to Rhody recently for the JD Tent Sale. Customers and fans were excited to meet the busy...
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Varnishing with This Old House and Jimmy Diresta
Kevin O’Connor of This Old House has visited our friend Jimmy DiResta at his upstate NY farmhouse a few times for special projects. They have built a few dining tables, a...
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Meet Acorn to Arabella Stars Steve & Alix at the JD Tent Sale!
Tomorrow, come by the Annual JD Tent Sale for a boatload of great deals on spring commissioning products, but stick around for the entertainment in the tent. Backyard Boat Building...
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Boatworks Today: Reinforcing the Transom
When boat repair wizard Andy Miller of Boatworks Today bought this recently restored Bertram Moppie, he was not expecting to redo most of what the previous owner had already restored. But a close...
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Boatworks Today: Fixing the Helm Station on Bertram Moppie Powerboat
Boatwright and YouTuber, Andy Miller, left a lot of people wondering how he would repair the holes in his fiberglass helm station. He wants to reconfigure the layout of his...
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Video: The Making of Jackman’s Giant Epoxy Screwdriver
Our email to you last week promised a video to follow up and show the ingenious process used by TotalBoat Ambassador Paul Jackman in the making of his giant epoxy screwdriver. Rotocasting...
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Pouring a Giant Epoxy Screwdriver – Part 1
We know you like boats better than river tables and epoxy art. We’re curating our best videos to share with you here, in hopes of showing you some interesting and...
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Final Fairing and Sanding of the Bertram Foredeck Using TotalFair
Back in Andy Miller’s Boatworks Today boat shop, it’s likely no surprise to see him again on the bow of his Bertram Moppie. With a few coats of TotalBoat’s TotalFair epoxy-based...
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