MotorCity Boat Werks

10/27/2025

Join the Werkers as a Patreon and get my new e-booklet on how to build a pilothouse for your Compac 16 sailboat

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10/24/2025

Progress update on my restoration the 1981 Skipper 20 sailboat

Back in the Boat Werks I'm finishing the final steps in my small sailboat restoration project. This episode is all about adding a winch and upgrading the cha...

10/20/2025

Skipper 20 sailboat restoration now entering final steps.
I think its time for a sea trial...don't you?

10/14/2025

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10/10/2025

A little pilothouse sailboat.
That’s all I need

This episode is about a Norwegian sailor I met during my boat trip along the southern coast of Norway. He has an unusual motorsailer yacht, with many clever ...

09/26/2025

Up a fjord in Norway through the Telemark Canal...Can we reach the terminus in our 100% all electric trawler?

Join me on a journey through Norway's stunning fjords, as I fulfill a 30-year dream of piloting my own electric boat from Porsgrunn into the interior of Norw...

09/24/2025

Recent Trawler Talk Podcast
https://passagemaker.com/trawlertalk/electric-dreams-midnight-sun/

09/19/2025

Electric Boat Offshore?
😁Yes Please

Join us on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure as I explore Norway's stunning southern coast aboard a 33-foot all-electric trawler! Capturing the breathtaking fjo...

09/05/2025

I was a skeptic until I tried it. This is the future of boating. Join me as I cruise the southern coast of Norway and up into am fjord in a 100% all electric trawler. 😀👍

The Greenline 33 is a 100% electric boat that is capable of cruising more than 100 nautical miles. This episode I'm on a sixteen day boat trip all around the...

08/22/2025

There are wooden sailboats that capture the imagination and there are wooden sailboats that inspire adventure. This episode is about my friend Dennis and his amazing boat called "Hope."

You can buy a boat in the woods, you can find a sailboat down by the river, but if you really want and adventure you should check out this rare 29' long dist...

08/16/2025

Small sailboat restoration doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive 😁

What's the cheapest and easiest sailboat nonskid? Check out the Skipper 20 sailboat restoration as I take you through my non-skid process. MotorCity Boat Wer...

08/08/2025

The restoration continues with a new rub rail. Here’s an excellent boat restoration project for your little sailboat

The rub rail on my Skipper 20 sailboat is rotten and its time install a new rub rail with bolt rope in my sailboat restoration project. MotorCity Boat Werks ...