Wooden Boats

Are you in the market for a Barrel Back? If so you have picked one of the most iconic boats of all time. There is not a part on these boats that isnt a work of art on its own. But, and I can speak from experience, buy the best restored one you can find.

Mahogany Bay bought and sold over 1,000 classic wooden boats over the last 40 years. We have several classic boats from the 20th century.

The construction went quickly. Every major project I’ve ever begun has a hidden “gumption trap”—a difficult and unrewarding challenge that sucks the will to persist right out of me. This skin-on-frame boat was an exception. Each evening or weekend hour brought visible progress. In the end, I finished the boat in about 75 hours over three months, while also working a full-time job, raising a toddler, and making a pair of oars. A more experienced builder could probably finish the boat in 40…

Joe Brennan’s as-yet-unnamed Herreshoff Coquina is a cold-molded version of the lapstrake cat-ketch that Nathanael Herreshoff built for himself in 1889. This is Joe’s first boat, built to test the idea of a career as a boatbuilder. #smallboats #herreshoff #boatbuildng #Coquina #sailboat #sailing

Building a One Sheet Boat: Warning: Woodworking is inherently dangerous. You are using sharp tools some of them spinning at large RPM's. You need to be wearing eye protection at all times, hearing protection as needed and because you are going to be working on some very small…

Lymans and other classic wooden boats for sale

Stickleback may be among the smallest of small boats, but it would be just the right boat to overcome the limitations of all of my larger vessels.

See the album My Boats My friend Piet Bouhuijs made this fine little motorsailer for himself in 2006 but after that, he made himself another fine boat, so he had two boats. That’s not wise, because you can only sail in one boat at the time. Sometimes he went to his boats to go out for a fine afternoon on the water, but Piet could not dicide which one to take out. So he went home, and did not sail at all! I bought this fine mini motorsailer from him just to help him with his troubles and a…

OK, great, now I need to add a paddle board to my bucket list of boats. Dam you Kevin Fitzke! Fellow Woody Boater Kevin sent this in yesterday regarding a first Last Gasp. WOW! As Kevin put it, "my "Last Gasp" but also my "First Inhale" for a better lack of analogy as I just

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