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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: Preparing for Planking
The backyard boatbuilders, Alix and Steve, are more than ready to move on to planking Arabella. It’s been years of precise measuring, cutting, and planning to get them to this...
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Handrails and Hatches with the Salvation Navy
When you’re given a winter season to haul your boat and get into and underneath all the systems, it’s a great time to look at what’s failing and rethink how...
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Sea Dreamer Project: Installing Plywood Bulkheads
TotalBoat Ambassador, Scott Smith, is among our squad of backyard boatbuilders who are making great progress on their wooden boat builds. Scott has poured all of his time and energy...
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Comparing TotalBoat Varnishes With Boatworks Today
Andy Miller knows a thing or two about boat work and marine finishes. He put a few of our TotalBoat marine varnish products to the test when he compared them...
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Meet The Salvation Navy: Boating Videos & How-To’s
TotalBoat customer & filmmaker, Matt Cline, wrote a review to tell us how much he loves using TotalBoat on his 1973 Herreshoff America Catboat restoration. This sweet little catboat is...
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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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