For small boats, use spreaders to maintain the correct shape. 16 | Repeat this process with each panel, stitching one side and then the other, from bow to stern.

In the early 2000s the company moved back into the oil and gas market, building supply boats. Over the years the boats got bigger, gradually growing from the 145-foot range up to 220 feet by 2015.

Meanwhile Whitecap Composites is a boutique builder in Peabody, Massachusetts, and builds around 100 boats per year. Partner Paul Zimmerman notes that they build boats to customer specs.

He's built several boats. “I built a boat for the first time in my 60s, and I was hooked,” he said. “We’re all about building and using sustainable small craft.

In other words, you’re really building a boat from scratch. You have a plan and blueprints and they show you the basic way to do it. But you’re really building a boat, from scratch.

Beckerman said building a small boat is just a vehicle to help the apprentices with deeper issues. “It's about learning about themselves, and woodworking helps pass the time,” he said.

Building Board: Like most small wooden boats, the Sea Scout was built bottom side up. Most pieces aren't permanently connected until relatively late in the process, but every element of the frame ...

Select a boat year and model below to get a valuation. Crawford Boat Building is a Massachusetts marine company constructing small vessels. Dedicated to building a modest fiberglass vessel since 1976, ...

For Roger Crawford , owner of Crawford Boat Building in Marshfield, his work comes down to three things: “Passion and craftsmanship and motivation to make every boat better than the last." Fiberg… ...

Members of the not-for-profit group make about half their annual $20,000 budget by building and raffling off a small boat every year from their Amagansett workshop.