About The WoodenBoat Store

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 Thank you for visiting our site. If you haven’t dealt with us before:

The WoodenBoat Store has been offering tools for learning... books, boatbuilding plans, hand tools, as well as gifts and logo'd gear by mail since 1975, and on-line since 1994.

We offer fast, friendly, and knowledgable service, shipping items all over the world as well as delivering hundreds of PDF items via downloads. The WoodenBoat Store is a part of WoodenBoat Publications Inc., which began business in 1974 with its first issue of WoodenBoat magazine.

For Ordering and other questions, see our FAQ pages. 

How to Reach Us

  • Phone Toll-Free US & Canada: 1-800-273-SHIP (7447) Overseas Call 207-359-4647
  • Hours:  Mon-Friday 8 am to 4:30pm, EST (-5 GMT)  Closed Saturdays Jan-June
  • We're closed on the typical major holidays: Christmas (2 or 3 days), New Years, President's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Thanksgiving.
  • 24-Hour Fax: 207-359-2058
  • Email: wbstore@woodenboat.com
  • By Car: once you're in Brooklin, turn onto Naskeag Road (at the General Store), go about a mile, then turn right on Great Cove Drive. You pass the pond on your right (look for beavers) and the Store is the pretty building on the left.
  • Mail: The WoodenBoat Store, Naskeag Road, PO Box 78, Brooklin, Maine 04616 U.S.A.
  • Sail In: Head for LAT 44 14' 45" N, LONG 68 33' 25" W, to our float and pier.

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WoodenBoat Logo background info:
The logo was inspired by images I had seen of the Gokstad Ship, and was generally in my mind before I actually started the magazine. There was no greater simple example of the power, grace, and beauty of the wooden boat.

As I originally sketched it in pen, it had a double wavy line beneath it, a symbol for longevity, borrowed from indigenous people -- maybe Hopi. I can't recall for sure.

Early on, I had a stipple pen and ink drawing done for it, and used it in some promotion, but it wasn't quite what I hoped for, in impact.

After the fire, but while still in Brooksville, I wanted to do something more impactful, and I wanted to shorten the name to WoodenBoat from The WOODENBOAT.

At the time, I had been working a little with illustrator and graphic designer George Spindler, a New York expat who lived in Trenton. He had shown me his portfolio, which included the logo type for Lauffer silverware, which caught my eye. Not that I wanted that look, but that I wanted our look with that cleanness.

So I asked him to design the new logo type and to execute a clean and simple viking ship graphic, based on the Gokstad Ship, such that we could also incorporate it for use on a t-shirt -- our first additional product, after back issues. He got it right away, and the result has sure continued to speak for itself!

The logo change made its debut in issue 18, in 1977.

 --Jon Wilson

 

AROUND THE BUOY Podcast from September 2018: Interviews Jon Wilson 

 

PRIVACY: 
WoodenBoat Publications, Inc., including its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively hereinafter "WoodenBoat"), operates this web site (the "site") in connection with its business. WoodenBoat is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for its customers. Although WoodenBoat is not a "financial institution" that is governed by the Privacy of Consumer Financial Information Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, WoodenBoat is committed to respecting the privacy rights of guests and users of the site.

Use of personal information
When you visit our store, subscribe to our publications or training services on line, place a classified ad, or register with "Directory of Boat Plans and Kits," we may ask you to provide information that personally identifies you (your "personal information"), for example, your name, address, email address, phone number, fax number, credit card number and expiration date, and/or other identifying information. We may also ask you for your birth date, your AIM ID, your occupation, your interests, and may allow you to post photographs of you and/or your boat. WoodenBoat uses your personal information to help identify you in the event you lose your password and to maximize your access to our online services and products. WoodenBoat does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

If you choose not to give us your personal information, you can still use most of our site, however, you will not be able to post on the forum, our classified ads, sign up for classes, or order merchandise. WoodenBoat also tracks the domains from which the Site is visited and uses that data to analyze for trends and statistics, and then discards it. We do not track individuals -- only instances of entry onto our site.

Links to Other MaterialsIf any link is offered connecting to a third-party web site, it is as an accommodation to the respective third-party site owner and without charge. WoodenBoat reserves the right to reject any request for a link to a third-party web site and to remove any link for any reason. Sites linked to and from this site are not necessarily under the control of WoodenBoat and WoodenBoat shall have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time.

 

Children's Privacy
Persons under the age of thirteen (13) are not authorized to make purchases from the site or post on the forum, and WoodenBoat does not specifically collect information about children. However, WoodenBoat is concerned about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, WoodenBoat will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. In the event that WoodenBoat receives actual knowledge that WoodenBoat has collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, WoodenBoat will delete that information from its database as quickly as is practical.

DMCA

If copyrighted content is posted without permission, the copyright owner may contact us about the potential infringement, and request removal. Click “DMCA” for information on getting in touch with the our DMCA Designated Agent to make a formal complaint. You can also find the Designated Agent in the Designated Agent Registry of the US Copyright Office.

Effective Date and Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 15, 2003. WoodenBoat reserves the right to modify the terms of this Policy at any time and in its sole discretion, by posting a change notice on this page. Your continued use of the site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.