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We're excited to share some fun boat builds from this year's Duckworks Takeover at the Northwest Maritime Center! For those of you not already in the know, this annual-ish event is one of the best kept non-secrets out there in the boat building community.  The Duckworks takeover is a month-long event when our community of DIY boatbuilders descends upon the NWMC boatshop in Port Townsend to make progress on their builds. Participants get to keep their boats in the shop, and access the t …

Hi everyone - I guess since I’ve been working behind the scenes on the business end of things here at Duckworks since the beginning of the year, it’s about time for me to introduce myself! My name is Katie Malik, I’m the General Manager of Gig Harbor Boat Works, and by extension also now of Duckworks since we were lucky enough to acquire Duckworks as a sister company at the beginning of the year. I grew up around small boats – my parents Dave and Janet Robertson are the original founders …

We've been getting a lot of calls and orders from builders racing to finish their boats as the latter part of summer approaches. Expert builder Dan Mattson stopped by recently to finish the rigging of his beautiful new SCAMP, with SCAMP oracle, Simeon Baldwin. meeting him here to assist. Dan's SCAMP features all kinds of Duckworks parts, from the bronze port kit to the bronze cleats, to the hatches and pintles and gudgeons. …