Get Your Boy One (For Yourself)

Boucher Inc. was more than just a “toy” manufacturer; their model boats were beautifully engineered, wonderfully crafted, and awfully expensive for the time.

Boucher Inc. was more than just a “toy” manufacturer; their model boats were beautifully engineered, wonderfully crafted, and awfully expensive for the time.

The challenge in building a skeg and rudder is to get them perfectly aligned with the keel.

Using bent pieces to make a curved hatch cover.


Decisions about restoration and preservation of a vintage model yacht may be based on an identification of the importance of the actual model in the history of model yachting.

Model Yacht Restoration Decision Making.
Restoration of An Early “A” Boat.
Restoration: A Boat Without a Keel.
Busman’s Holiday.

John walks us through the details of restoring a disintegrating old A Boat.

A Conversation with Thom McLaughlin and WoodenBoat School Director Rich Hilsinger.

Rating Rules for Vintage Boats.
Pepper – A 1948 Chris-Craft Custom Runabout.
Self-Righting Catamaran.
The Great Schooner Model Society.
Stay at Home Sailing.
Gadgets and Gizmos. A Paint Stand.
Malay Jong. The Ultimate Free Sailing Model Yacht.