Enjoy a curated playlist of a few of our favorite Off Center Harbor videos from around the world.
New Release!
Keeping Tradition Alive: A Conversation with Luke Powell
Tom Robinson sits down with Luke Powell to discuss building traditional boats in a modern world, specifically the largest pilot cutter built since the 1870s, the 68′ PELLEW.
Learn more about Luke Powell’s pilot cutters on his company’s Working Sail website.
Here’s Working Sails page at the Show.
Here’s Venture Sail Holidays’ page at the Show.
New Release!
Tom Robinson’s Trans-Pacific Row, Part 17 – American Samoa & Pacific Convergence Zone
Tom Robinson rows from Tongareva (Penrhyn Island) to American Samoa, confronting his first major medical issue and working to keep up his motivation to row all day, every day.
Here’s MAIWAR’s page at the Show.
Here’s Tom’s Underwood’s Marine page at the Show
Among Old Friends, Part 1 – On Center Harbor
Ever wonder what it would be like to get a floating tour of Center Harbor by two local guys who know the boats, the place, and the stories as well as anyone? Well here ya go . . .
How to Trim Sails with Carol Hasse, Part 2 – The Headsail
Legendary sailmaker Carol Hasse shows us how to tell your jib from your genoa and how to manage headsail trim for better performance in a clear, concise way that’s been recognized as the best explanation around.
Here’s Hasse & Co. Port Townsend Sails’ page at the Show.
At Home in the Bilge with Maynard Bray – How New Zealand’s Classics were Built
How do you build wooden boats to last for over a century dependably? Ask the Kiwis, that’s how they do it. So we went and we learned with inveterate wooden boat nut Maynard Bray.
Here’s Brookes Boatbuilding’s page at the Show.
Here’s Maynard’s L.F. Herreshoff Sloop LILY’s page in the Show.
A Visit Aboard Wooden Motor Trawler RAVEN
An experienced Northwest shipwright and cruiser takes us aboard his own wooden motor trawler, RAVEN, in which there seems to be a compartment for everything. And then some.
Here’s RAVEN’s page at the Show.
How to Build a Plank-On-Frame Lobster Boat, Part 9 – Steam Bending Frames
Part of our ongoing series with lobster boat expert Peter Buxton, who shows us how he puts in the steam-bent frames that form the shape and structure of the hull.
Here’s Buxton Boats’ page at the Show.
Harry Bryan’s Off-the-Grid Shop for Building Boats
This visit to the “World of Harry Bryan” might just get you thinking about how you can make your shop a more innovative, environmentally conscious place to work.
Here’s Bryan Boatbuilding’s page at the Show.
The Working Waterfront of Old Douarnenez, Memoir of a French Fishing Village
Jean-Jacques Chapalain takes us inside the history of the old working waterfront of Douarnenez, where the sardine and tuna fisheries were the center of life for much of the 20th century.
Here’s the Douarnenez Maritime Festival’s page at the Show.
Here’s the Douarnenez Port Museum’s page at the Show.
A Beautiful Morning in The Drake Rowing Boat
The Drake Rowboat is a boat we believe in. She’s a good boat to build, and row, and you can take her just about anywhere on adventures. Here we join a friend for a morning row on the coast of Maine. She bought the kit from Chase Small Craft (link below in Nav further) and then she had Eric Dow Boat Shop (link below) build it. Jump aboard, let’s follow here on an early row in the calm fog of a Maine morning.
Here’s Chase Small Craft’s page at the Show.
Here’s Eric Dow Boat Builder’s Page
I’ve seen a few of these videos before. They never get old. This is great stuff 🙂 good to see Tom Robinson again.
Thanks for the new and old. What’s old is new again.