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Bottom Paint Breakdown: What You Need to Know Before You Paint
Ah, bottom paint season—when boatyards come alive with sanding, scraping, and painting as everyone gets their boats ready for splash. If you're one of the many boaters wondering, “Which bottom paint is right for my boat?”—you're not alone. We're getting tons...
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Patching a Hole in Fiberglass
TotalBoat Ambassadors Kent and Audrey Lewis from Small Boat Restoration in Florida did a great blog post about how to patch a hole in fiberglass. These pesky holes happen from...
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Building The TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 7 – The False Bottom
Louis Sauzedde, our favorite master shipwright, promises that the strongback he built for the TotalBoat Sport Dory can support not only his weight, but also the weight of the 3...
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Jamestown Distributors Gives a Helping Hand for Hurricane Victims
Jamestown Distributors and TotalBoat are pleased to be aligning ourselves with some well positioned industry leaders to lend a hand to those in need of rebuilding materials and supplies in...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 6 – Q&A with Louis
Here we are at Episode 6 of the Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory series and already people have long lists of questions for Lou. There were lots of comments and...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 5 – A Dory in Sight
In episode 5 we can see that the Sport Dory is starting to take shape – as in, we can see the shape of the boat by the end! In...
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Tell Us About Your Bottom Paint
We are on our third year of collecting your feedback on your bottom paint performance for the season with our now annual Bottom Paint Survey. With over 3200 responses in...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 4 – Direct Transfer
Lou is getting his hands dirty in Episode 4 as he tackles the important job of converting his table of offsets, to actual cuts on pieces of wood he is...
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Waterlust Paints Teardrop Camper With TotalBoat Topside Paint & Varnish
When Waterlust filmed this latest video, they were adoring the “glorious weather” in Miami. As you read this, the team has evacuated with their newly painted Teardrop camper in tow,...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 3 – Table of Offsets
In Episode 3, Lou is getting into the math and measurements that will determine the shape and size of the TotalBoat Sport Dory. By using and transferring measurements from the...
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TotalBoating – Reaching Customers on the Water in the J Class
We know where to find you! If you’re like us, you’re under the boat in winter, up ON the boat on stands in the springtime, and we sure hope that...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 2 – Sourcing White Oak Logs
Episode 2 finds Lou at a bigger lumber yard that he refers to as more of a “production” yard where he is seeking more White Oak logs for the TotalBoat...
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Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Season 2 Episode 1
Calling all Louis Sauzedde super fans, boat builders, tinkerers, hobbyists, sailors, rowers, woodworkers and dreamers! Season 2, Episode 1 of Louis Sauzedde’s new series, Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory, is...
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