I spent 10 years building houses, cabinets, trim work, man do I admire wooden boats. I owned a classic Mackenzie dory for a while. We would some summers simply leave out in the backyard and admire the hunter green haul with varnished spruce railing and brass fittings.

I grew up on the Maine coast. My grandfather had a Will Frost, such a beautiful boat.

Nice boat and a great bunch of people! I know a man in Louisiana with a 3rd grade education that will build you a 45’ cypress shrimp boat and all he needs is a pencil, a long piece of string and a hand saw & sander.I have seen his work and believe me it’s perfect!

One of the clearest instructional videos I’ve seen on building just the bottom of boat. Thank you so much. Beautiful work.

I was raised in Kennebunkport living next door to Clark's Boat building shop. Never forget watching Clemmy launching his boats.

Beautiful boat - lucky person who spent his life doing what he loved and did it well.

I like how he says it's not rocket science. That's how you know he's a master boat builder. What a legend.

Wonderful story. Hope the tradition continues...

What a wonderful job on documenting wooden boat building in Maine. My dad had a great wooden lobster boat operating out of Northeast Harbor in the 60's. Thanks!

Gosh he reminds me of my late Dad, another master builder. Great work Sir.

What a beautiful film to watch before getting out of bed this morning. An accidental find from the Facebook rabbit hole. Thank god wooden boats have, and are making a comeback. Things weren't looking too promising for the trade in the 60s and 70s.

Such a humble man. Nice video thanks.

A cool history for the state as well. To all the family businesses who make our world so special, Thank You. Personal memories of my grandfather's little wooden cabin cruiser that was used to teach us grandkids how to water-ski, or watch fireworks out on the water, and trying to keep it afloat during crazy storms. Thanks for bringing these memories back. Peace.

I thought I had saved it, but did not. Now found it again and a joy to watch. Thanks for taking the time to make it and share it with those of us who love wooden boats.

i got choked up when you launched HER. beautiful work.

Sure nice to see true craftsman that still have a love for a wood boat and it sure does smell better

Wooden Boat Builders are True Craftsmen with a passion for what they do.

Wooden boats are like a good meal. You can tell if they were made with Love.

1990 was accepted to attend Landing School of boat building in Kennebunkport. Life issues kept me from actually going. Very disappointing, to understate it... So I watch videos like this to live the life that would have been, vicariously. I do work with wood when I can, gotta get the sawdust in my nose, that aroma-- as Chummy said, "[wood] smells better". Nothing like it! Thank you for this video!

Mr. Rich, Respect!! You are a true craftsman and master boat builder! I appreciate your humility, eye and ability to make something beautiful and excellent in a day when many things are just barely good enough!! To make a boat that handles well, easy on fuel, nice lines, and will last a long time shows you have true talent!!

Just a mesmerizing video. Thank you so much.

Just enjoyed craftsmen at work a joy to watch

Really enjoyed this, I live in Michigan near where Chris Craft was so I grew up hearing about the shipbuilding in the area in the 1800s, my ancestors were shipbuilders. Love the old wooden boats. Great film.

Must had been a great Childhood to be able to build your own boat and enjoy using it with your friends !

Fantastic skills that need to be kept alive. Thanks for sharing, good entertainment. Ant, Cid & the Pooch crew.

Chummy has retired(yeah right) and sold the business to Rich Helmke who is in this video. I met Chummy back in the late 80's when a guy I was doing work for was looking to have a boat built. Chummy would of been the choice but he had to much in the works at the time. It was to be a wooden lobster style boat but used for pleasure. Boat ended up being built by John's Bay and was decked out with mahogany and the works. She was something special but I'm sure Chummy would of built just as fine or even better of a boat

Such a great story... and we'll done video... I've watched it a few times... just a great way to relax. Wonderful production! Thanks for posting!

Thanks for this great video. Our Tahitian local commercial fishing boats are directly inspired by these traditional Maine wooden boats.

Well done. I enjoyed the progam. Always a pleasure to watch craftsmen at work.

I’m closing in on 70 now and have lived all but about 10 years on the Chesapeake. Our traditional boats here were similar in design to these down east style hulls, but sadly, there are few still built of wood. There’s just something about the way a wood hull glides through the water that’s more pleasing to the senses. These days it’s all about speed. That’s kind of a shame too. Given the cost of quality timber now, the many hours necessary to build with it, and the added maintenance required, few boaters these days will ever know the feel of riding in a high quality wood hull.

You are masters of your craft I bow down to you

Great video! Thank you for uploading

Spent a bunch of time in Boothe Bay and love those boats.

Oh my God , you guy are wonderful people , all I can say may God bless you all

I began fishing with my father who had at the time built his own boat of southern cypris. We would sink it after use and bail it upon return to fish. What a boat and nothing like a wood boat. Great craftsmanship sir.

Heavy, the cost used be about $1,000.00 per foot. But that was in the 1980s. I have only built one wooden boat, cost was not considered, to make the boat was to be the boat. Wood talked to me and for once, I listened. I never had a leak, never a piece to splinter, break, or cost extra after completion. I only keep it two years, I was in the country of Panama and it would cost a fortune to ship to the states, so, l departed boatless. Thank you for this video, it really talked to me!

Awesome story. Love wood boats. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya

Really enjoyed this. Well done piece on a great character and his great boats.

Will always be mans most beautiful creations

Absolutely spectacular ! Wonderful craftsmanship from everyone. There’s nothing as beautiful as a wooden boat and nothing skims through the water like a wooden boat. Thank you for sharing with everyone your gift for craftsmanship as you did with this video.

Beautiful! Love this!

Great post, thank you!

Oh man, i wish i worked there. Looks like building boats is one of those jobs that you could easily walk away from because they take an immense amount of time and dedication. great video.

Thank you boat gold ❤

Great Video, Thanks!!!

Great documentary. real good.

Top job Mate !!!

Great boat's !

Great video.

Beautiful boat.

Great craftsmanship

For beauty nothing beats a wooden boat eh.

One thing KZfaq has in abundance is guys building wooden boats. From the clued up, skilled practitioner, to the backyard bodger. This vid certainly depicts the former category. A really good watch.

Great Video i kind of smiled a bit when he says it’s not Rocket Sceince but in reality he not only needs to be a great Craftsman but a exceptional manager and Project Manager to make so many things come together so well that’s the part you ned to be pretty smart for! i’ve owned a Woodie but haven’t been able to build one yet although i have something’s in mind for when the day does come plus i did make my living as a professional Woodworker for over 20 years but was forced into a early retirement due to a unexpected Traumatic Brain Injury

beautiful boat

Nothing rides the waves like a wooden boat.

You don't find many craftsman like that anymore.

such a nice boat

Gorgeous

Piękna praca 💪👍

If I had another start to life this is the trade I would of taken on

Wood is the best and the most beautiful ❤⛵️🛶⛴️

Beautiful 😘

they don't make them like that anymore, when a handshake was all you needed ! Cheers to a good life !

Welcome to far harbor! 😉

She's a beauty.

I love when he says capentar

Wow 👍👍

wooden boat is the best I really enjoyed your video I would like to know if u can put fiberglass over the wood do some boat builders do that like if u using marine ply thank u

".....we had to bail quite frequently..."🤣🤣

bebbissima costruzione

quantos hp tem esse motor que usaram nesse barco?

So what did it cost ? So beautiful!! but would it look sweet if it was lacquered/varnished so you could see the wood ?

Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable, not the animal world, rooted and stationary. … The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.” - Arthur Ransome

Rides with her bow up . Will not plain off like a Chesapeake bay deadrise boat

...why is it always the...."Rocket Scientist"...that says it's not rocket science ?....I could spend the rest of my life laying out a boat on a floor and accomplish absolutely nothing !..Thank you for the work...A.C.Feuerhelm

Não entendi o que falam . Mas o trabalho é bonito.

Does he make Sailboats?

es un sueño contruir un barco para mi

Real America :)

So he hadn't built a wooden boat for 25 years prior to this?

The boat at 9:52...........is this design still available today ?

What was the narrow boat he was talking about that needed little power? Dumbaloe?

" If god would have wanted us to build fiberglass boat, he would have created fiberglass tree."

manda o projeto pra mim. obrigado

Instead of buying factory made yatchs, people should buy from these guys. They're likely to give you value for your money. Unfortunately the most water I have seen is the one in the bucket. Never been to the see

Nice old guy, would have enjoyed subtitles to catch all he was saying. My hearing is not the best either.

1608 the first ship built by Europeans in the New World... As most Americans, historians or ordinary people, you just ignore that the Spanish and Portuguese built many of them during the XVI century in South Ameica and Caribbean.

is Chummy a nickname from fish chum?

what if you made the runners for the floor slip into a aluminum sleeve 2 ft before transom and then the aluminum goes out past the transom and you attach the motor there so the motor pushes the boat from the whole base instead of transom

If I could pick a time to live it would probably be somewhere around 40s early 50s even though I was born in the mid-fifties I really really long for those Early Times things were will a freaking different back then I remember as a kid in the 60s watching the world slowly change and slowly disappear as it once was I can remember certain towns and their buildings disappear historic buildings and things that just weren't considered important just bulldozed and massive tracts of land slowly disappearing to put up stick houses and here's what we got here it is 2020 and getting tighter all the time! I look at these kids building boats right on the beach and putting them in the water I'm sure those were the days where a kid could do that stuff without getting a lot of hassle I mean today you can't even sell a burrito without getting arrested I mean the s*** has hit the fan and I'm glad I'm not living forever

Hi. Nice video. Can you tell me please. I want to buy new wood boat, but from my previous experience with old wood boats i know: all of them was leaking every spring time or after long seating.what about new boats, new boats also leaking ? Thanks.

It's a great boat. The only thing I would have changed (considering that the whole bottom was painted) is that I would have done two or three layers of fiberglass on the bottom. It would have made it stronger and you know it would never leak. But that's just me and my over protectiveness.

Might want to include subtitles for Hoosiers like me! Haha, seems like a great craftsman but I can only understand every other word he's saying. Quite the accent.

Someone named their kid Chummy

Husspowa

The Sylvestor Stallone School For Advanced Speech

How does a son in law have the same name as the father in law? Rich?

Building a house would bore me

I did it myself thanks to Woodglut.