Boat Building and Boat Restoration like you’ve never seen before! Welcome to MotorCity Boat Werks, my boat building and boat restoration workshop. I make boat building and boat restoration videos for the DIY boat builder. My show documents my progress on old sailboat restorations, composite and fiberglass boat building, or my pocket trawler restoration. I show the tips and tricks, the ups and downs, the decision-making and design that goes into the passion of amateur boat building. This the real story of amateur boat building and amateur boat restoration.
This episode I discuss how I removed the headliner from the Albin 27. This is a great diy boat repair project that you may encounter if you have an old yacht or an abandoned sailboat. The headliner was a vinyl product glued and stapled to the interior of the boat covering the boat walls and […]
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Welcome to my boat building channel! This is my trawler restoration of an Albin 27 pocket trawler. Every couple of weeks I post a boat building or boat repair video to document various boat projects, sailboat restorations, or boat repairs.This episode is about how I painted the Albin 27. In every boat restoration there comes
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This episode I discuss my plan for a boat refit and boat remodel of the Albin 27. I’m not sure what to do next. What is the order of work? What is the order that you put a boat back together? Which boat systems do you install in a pocket trawler and in what order?
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The first step of my boat restoration project is to get the my Albin 27 off the trailer and into my boat restoration workshop. This episode I discuss how I got my big boat off the triple axle trailer. The Albin 27 pocket trawler weighs approximately 4,200 pounds as a bare hull. I needed to
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In this episode we will discuss the Albin 27 Family Cruiser and its history and design. The Albin 27 Family Cruiser is a trailerable trawler built between 1984-1992 in the United States. It’s an affordable recreational trawler. It was originally called the Albin Diesel Cruiser. The Albin 27 came as a Albin 27 Family Cruiser
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Welcome to my boat building channel! This is my trawler restoration of an Albin 27 pocket trawler. Every couple of weeks I post a boat building or boat repair video to document various boat projects, sailboat restorations, or boat repairs. This boat restoration project is a bare hull rebuild of a 1986 Albin 27 Family
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