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You Can Restore an Old Wooden Boat
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You Can Restore an Old Wooden Boat

Yes, It Might Be Hard, But Oh, the Rewards!

Sep 15, 2023
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Booksellers offer a dozen excellent titles on wooden-boat restoration, so our goal here is not to write another one. We’d just like to share tips based on decades of loving work on old, tired and sometimes rotten wooden boats.

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