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Join TotalBoat at the Annapolis Sailboat Show
We're heading back to the Annapolis Sailboat Show this October, and we've got a hands-on class, a booth full of live demos, and a free seminar with two of your favorite boat repair YouTubers all lined up. Here's everything you...
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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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Fairing A Fiberglass Deck
With ample time, polyresin, and fiberglass applied to the foredeck, Andy Miller’s Bertram Moppie is well on its way to becoming a better boat. The next steps are sanding, filling, and...
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Restoring the Tally Ho: Cutting the Stern Post & Framing
We’re back on the West Coast in Washington State where experienced boat builder and sailor, Leo Goolden, is completely restoring an older English Channel Cutter named “Tally Ho.” Leo knew...
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A Fiberglass Fix for the Foredeck
Andy Miller is back on the foredeck of his Bertram Moppie that is in the midst of it’s second (or more) restoration. Andy is an expert and he knows enough...
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Acorn to Arabella Episode 53: Framed and Disassembling
The Atkins ketch Arabella has rounded a corner in her “from-the-ground-up construction. As of this week, Arabella is fully framed, with all of the individual frames steamed and bent into...
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Small Boat Restoration: Using TotalBoat Wet Edge Topside Paint
TotalBoat Ambassadors Kent and Audrey Lewis go the extra mile when working in their tiny, cramped boat shop. It’s less about the shop being too small, and more that it’s...
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Boatbuilding with TotalBoat Thixo Flex Flexible Epoxy Adhesive
Back inside Andy Miller’s Boatworks Today boat shop in Wisconsin, and the upstate NY boat shed of Scott Smith and his Sea Dreamer Project, are two men hard at work...
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Filling Screw Holes with Thickened Epoxy
Andy Miller of the Boatworks Today YouTube channel is back on board his Bertram Moppie today with some advice about how to best fill old screw holes that either need...
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Paul Jackman’s Life-Sized Wooden Nutcracker | TotalGold Paint For Gold Accents
TotalBoat Ambassador and savage woodworker, Paul Jackman, rarely does things in a minimal fashion. Paul tends to go big, like the massive box cutter he made and now his latest...
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Fiberglassing Stress Cracks With TotalBoat Polyester Resin
Boat maintenance and repair expert and master YouTuber, Andy Miller, is busy in his Wisconsin shop this winter. He’s taken an old Bertram Moppie powerboat (epic yacht, if you ask...
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Boatbuilding With The Sea Dreamer Project
Have you been over to the SeaDreamer Project’s YouTube Channel? Policeman turned Boat Builder, Scott Smith, has been busy building a 41-foot Diesel Duck Trawler for the past two years...
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Jackman’s Wavy Segmented Bowl (with Epoxy!)
It was fun to entertain our newest TotalBoat Ambassador, Paul Jackman. Paul was doing a New England tour, visiting his old stomping grounds of Rhode Island, and stopping off to see...
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