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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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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...
Read moreBuilding 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...
Read moreBuilding 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...
Read moreTell 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...
Read moreBuilding 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...
Read moreWaterlust 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,...
Read moreBuilding 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...
Read moreTotalBoating – 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...
Read moreBuilding 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...
Read moreBuilding 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...
Read moreVideo: Tips from Louis on Calking with Cotton
There’s just one more week until Louis Sauzedde’s next boatbuilding series begins, entitled Building the TotalBoat Dory. (launching here on August 25th) But Lou is not sitting idle in the...
Read moreFather & Son Duo at The Leo Telesmanick Beetle Cat Championship
By John Howell, Warwick Beacon They haven’t really changed with time, and that’s what gives Beetle Cats appeal. The wooden hull boats are made the same way today as when...
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