- Boatbuilding Supplies:
- 21st Century Coatings (Canada) (FPU® fluorinated polyurethane hull and topside finishes)
- Admiral Metals (Stainless steel, nonferrous and specialty metals)
- A. Fletcher Marine (Stainless steel fasteners and fittings, Bacup, Lancashire)
- AgriSeek (Buy and sell ads for lumber)
- Ahlstrom Glassfibre oy (Manufacturer and worldwide distributer of glassfiber and nonwovewn web materials, Finland)
- Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. (Canadian manufacturer of MDO, HDO and slip proof plywood panels)
- Aircraft Spruce and Specialty (Lightweight woods and composites)
- Aircraft Spruce's Hi-Tech Composites Pages
- Alaskan Copper & Brass Company (Manufacturer of corrosion resistant alloy products, Seattle)
- Alcan Composites (Baltek and Airex core materials, composite structures)
- The American Bamboo Society
- American Fastener Journal (Magazine for the fastener industry)
- The American Plywood Association (APA)
- American Rope & Tar (Authentic Stockholm tar and Uncle Billy's Old Time Wood Oil)
- American Science & Surplus (Lots of weird and wonderful gadgets and gizmos that might be useful to a boatbuilder)
- A&M Wood Specialty (Solids and veneers, Cambridge, Ontario, not a boatbuilding specialist)
- Anchor Hardwoods (Lumber, marine plywood. Wilmington, North Carolina)
- Arauco (Chilean producer of Radiata pine plywood and lumber)
- The Architect's Catalog, Inc. (Construction material suppliers list, specs)
- ATC Chemical Corporation (Structural foams, polyester bonding & fairing compounds)
- Atlas Metal Sales (Aluminum, brass, bronze, silicon bronze, copper, lead, nickel, pewter, tin and zinc in various forms)
- Bamboo Fencer, Inc. (Bamboo poles)
- Barnhill Bolt Co. (Nuts, bolts, and industrial fasteners, Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- BC Wood Strips, Inc. (Custom milled canoe strips, Coquitlam, British Columbia)
- Beekmans Brothers Stainless Steel Plc. (Manufacturer of finished custom RVS metalwork, Holland)
- Blakes Paints (British paint manufacturer)
- Boat Builder Central (Plans, kits & building materials)
- BoatCraft (Hardware, materials, kits and books for the home boatbuilder, Edmonton, Alberta)
- Boatcraft Pacific (Manufactures the Bote-Cote range of epoxy boatbuilding and repair materials, including Cop-R-Bote epoxy/copper antifouling coating, Australia)
- The Bolt Depot (Stainless steel, brass & bronze fasteners)
- Boulter Plywood (Hardwood and marine lumber, plywood, and veneer)
- Bristol Finish (Maker of urethane varnishes, Melbourne, Florida)
- Buck Woodcraft (Marine lumber, plastics and composites, King Starboard, etc., Marathon, Florida Keys)
- Bunyat Industry 1998 Co., Ltd. (Manufacturer of stainless steel bolts and lag screws, Thailand)
- Cadillac Plastic (Plastic shapes and fabricated solutions for the marine industry)
- Canply (The Canadian Plywood Association)
- The Certified Forest Products Council (Promoting responsible forest products buying practices throughout North America in an effort to improve forest management practices worldwide)
- Chesapeake Marine Fasteners
- Chirienterprise Inc. (Maker of What a Job water based liquid polymer marine coating, Roxboro, Quebec)
- Clark Craft (Supplies for the home boatbuilder)
- Classic Restoration and Supply (Supplies to help with classic boat projects)
- Clear Cut Plastics Inc. (Do it yourself supplies sand tools, Seattle)
- Coastal Marine ( Manufacturer of TeaQua teak oil, pigment and sealer)
- Coastal Pacific Forest Products (Douglas Fir, Red and Yellow Cedar, Western White Pine, Chemainus, British Columbia)
- Composites and Reinforced Plastics (Composites news, education, information, and an online composite guide)
- Composite Structure Technology (Resins, fibers, cores, laminated panels & shapes, vacuum bagging supplies)
- Contractors' Depot (Fasteners)
- The Copper Page (A service of the worldwide copper and brass industries)
- CopperPoxy Antifouling Marine Coat
- Corroseal, Inc. (Manufacturer of industrial and marine coatings)
- Coventry Boatbuilders Chandlery (Worldwide mail-order supplier of classic chandlery items and boatbuilding supplies, UK)
- Crosscut Harwoods (Portland & Eugene, Oregon)
- Custom-Pak Adhesives, Inc. (Industrial adhesives for wood and other materials, including Aerodux 500 resorcinol)
- Dean Hardwoods
- Defender Industries, Inc. (Fiberglass, Dynel and other specialty cloths)
- Dixon Marine (Supplies for the do-it-yourself boat builder)
- Dolphinite (Manufacturer of bottom paints and coatings)
- Duckworks Boat Builder’s Supply (Everything you need to build a boat except the wood, Harper, Texas)
- Dura-Fix Low-Temperature Aluminum Welding Rod
- EAST System Supply Ltd. (Epoxies)
- Easy Creek Lumber (Specializing in clear Alaska yellow cedar and Douglas fir, Lorane, Oregon)
- Edensaw Woods, LTD
- Epifanes (Paints and varnishes)
- Evercoat Marine Products (Epoxy and polyester resins, Skid-No-More textured non-skid coating)
- Exotic Lumber Inc. (Suppliers of domestic and imorted hardwoods and softwoods, marine timber and sheet goods, Maryland)
- Fabula Incorporated (Maker of Signature Finish marine paint and Honey teak finishing products)
- Faering Design Inc. (North American distributor for copper fasteners, boat nails, roves, rivets, clench nails, threaded and decoration nails from European and domestic manufacturers, East Middlebury, Vermont)
- Falster Træ & Finér ApS (Danish manufacturer of marine plywood)
- Fawcett Boat Supplies (Fasteners, paints, other supplies)
- Fiberglass Coatings Inc. (Resins, fiberglass, gelcoats, fillers, etc.)
- Fiberglass Supply, Inc.
- Fibre Glast (Packaged fiberglass and composite materials)
- Flexiteek (Flexible synthetic substitute for teak decking)
- Flexdel Corporation (Maker of Aquagard® waterbase antifouling bottom paint)
- The Forest Products Laboratory
- The Forest Products Society (An international technical association for all segments of the forest products industry)
- General Woods & Veneers Ltd. (Importers and exporters of veneers, lumber & woods)
- George Kirby, Jr. Paint Co. (Marine paint since 1846, New Bedford, Massachusetts)
- GE Plastics (Lexan® and other plastic products)
- Gilmer Wood Company (Exotic hardwoods, Portland, Oregon)
- Glasgow Steel Nail Co. Ltd. (Manufacturers of galvanized cut nails and genuine wrought iron nails)
- Gougeon Brothers, Inc. (Makers of WEST System™ epoxy products)
- Goulet Specialties (Manufacturer of cut-thread wood screws and other standard and specialty fasteners, Winsted, Connecticut)
- Great Northern Lumber (Distributor of Douglas fir timbers, plywood, MDO, Blue Island, Illinois)
Hadco Metal Trading Co. (Worldwide delivery of aluminum, magnesium, stainless steel and related alloys, Jamaica, New York)
- Hamilton Marine (Fasteners and hardware)
- The Hardwood Manufacturers Association Hardwood Information Center
- The Hawaii Forest Industry Association
- Hempel's Marine Paints
- Hilltech Custom Injection Molding, Inc. (Custom injection plastic molded parts)
- Home and Shop Boating Fasteners (Stainless steel fastener kits)
- Homestead Hardwoods (White oak, teak, Philippine & Honduras mahogany, other hardwoods, Sandusky County, Ohio)
- Industrial Formulators (Epoxy products, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia)
- Infinity Composites (Raw fiberglass and other fiber materials, resins, Ashtabula, Ohio)
- InStock Fasteners (Online sales of marine, construction & industrial fasteners
(Chicago)
- Intercoat (Distributor of thermal and corrosive barrier coatings)
- Interlux Yacht Paints
- Island Teak (Burma teak decking, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia)
- Jamestown Distributors (Fasteners, adhesives, hardware, etc.)
- John Greer and Associates (Online sales agent for AeroMarine epoxy and polyurethane foam, Sand Diego, California)
- Jotun Paints USA (Marine and industrial coatings)
- King Plastic (Starboard® and Starlite® marine polymer sheets, other plastic materials)
- K Ply (Manufacturer of Royal WeatherPly® MDO, Port Angeles, Washington)
- Kush Paint CompanyMaker of marine paint and varnish, copper anti-fouling paint, Roseville, Michigan)
- Krylon (Paint)
- Loyalist Forest Products (White cedar and hardwood lumber, Erinsville, Ontario)
- MacBeath Hardwood Company (Marine plywood, California, Indiana & Utah)
- McClanahan Lumber (Douglas fir boat lumber, Forks, Washington)
- McFeely’s Square Drive Screws
- McMaster-Carr Supply Company (Fasteners, tools, pipe fittings, hardware, raw materials, not a marine specialist)
- Magnet Paints (Heavy equipment and industrial finishes, rust removal and prevention coatings)
- Maine Coast Lumber (Hardwood and marine plywood, lumber, flooring, and millwork, York and Westbrook)
- Marine Fasteners, Inc. (North American importer of stainless steel fasteners and related products)
- Marine Foam (Polyurethane, styrofoam, buoyancy billets and expanding foam products for marine applications, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)
- Marine-Paint.com (POR-15 anti-rust coatings, marine paints, fillers, surface prep supplies, etc.)
- Marineply.com (UK)
- Marine Timbers (Suppliers of wood panel products, protective coatings and adhesives, Seaford, Australia)
- Maritime Wood Products (Specialty wood products for yacht building and restoration)
- Mars Keel Technology (Lead keels and keel moulds)
- MAS Epoxies
- Matrix Mouldings (UK importer and distributor for Sicomin epoxy resins and associated products)
- MatWeb (Free online material properties information resource)
- Mertons (Fiberglass, polyester and epoxy resins, non-corrosive fastenings, marine paints and compounds)
- Metalico Lead Products (Lead ingots, pigs, ballast, boat keels, special castings and hot pours, facilities throughout the USA)
- Minwax
- MMS & Accessories (Stainless steel hardware, fasteners, tubing and pipe)
- Mr. Boat Europe (European online store for Mr. Boat epoxies, boat building supplies and related services)
- M. u. H. von der Linden GmbH (German WEST System distributor)
- Nida-Core Corporation (Extruded polypropylene honeycomb for sandwich composite panels)
- Nils Malmgren AB (Swedish epoxy vendor)
- Ningbo Shanquan Fiberglass (Manufacturer of fiberglass mesh and fiberglass tape, Yuyao City, Zhejiang, China)
- Noah's Marine Supply (Lumber and boatbuilding supplies)
- North American Hardwoods (Information database)
- Northeast Fasteners (Stainless steel us & metric fasteners, Granby, Massachusetts)
- Northwest Specialty Woods (High quality woods including red cedar, yellow cedar, Douglas fir & Sitka spruce, Elma, Washington)
- Olsen & Wang A/S (Maker of Owatrol oil finishes and other coatings, Norway)
- Olympic Panel Products (Formerly Simpson, manufacturer of Douglas fir marine plywood, Signal® and Crezon® MDO)
- Oregon Wild Wood (Douglas fir, Port Orford cedar, Northwest and exotic hardwoods, Gold Beach)
- Pettit Marine Products (Paints and coatings)
- Pinmar (Marine paints, resins, boatbuilding supplies, Palma, Mallorca)
- Pittsburgh Paint High Performance Coatings for Architects and Contractors
- PL Adhesives and Sealants
- PlasTEAK Recycled Plastic Lumber (Dimension lumber, plywood substitute)
- Plum Creek Timber (Manufacturer of boatbuilding plywood)
- Progressive Epoxy Polymer's Marine Epoxies (PPI)
- The Protective Coatings Forum
- The Protective Paints, Coatings, Linings & Corrosion Information Server
- Public Lumber Company (Manufacturer and distributor of hardwood lumber, imported hardwood lumber, hardwood plywood, and marine plywood, Detroit, Michigan)
- Raka Marine Boatbuilding Epoxy and Fiberglass
- RavenWood Services (Boat lumber, hull veneer and bead and cove strips, Sechelt, British Columbia)
- The Real Wrought Iron Company (Worldwide supplier of genuine puddled and charcoal wrought iron, Thirsk, North Yorkshire)
- Reichhold (composites, polyester resins, adhesives)
- Resoltech (Epoxy manufacturer and formulator, France)
- Resources International, Inc. (Marine, teak, and teak and holly plywood, Tacoma)
- RHH Foam Systems (Expanding foams)
- R. J. Leahy Company (Fasteners)
- Robbins Timber (Lumber and plywood, fasteners, Bristol, UK)
- Robertson, Inc. (Makers of the original square-drive screws, Milton, Ontario)
- Rodda Paint
- Rot Doctor (Wood derived epoxy products for the building, preservation and treatment of wooden boats)
- Rust-Oleum Paints
- SALVO (Where to find reclaimed and recycled building materials)
- San Diego Plastics, Inc. (Plexiglas®, Lexan®, lots of other plastic materials)
- The Sandusky Paint Company (Marine enamel, Lyman and Chris Craft specialty finishing products, red lead primer)
- Sani-Tred (Marine deck covering systems)
- Scarecrow Wood, Stone and Steel (Hardwoods, carved limestone items)
- Seacoast Pourable Transom & Stringer Repair Solution
- Sea-Slide® (Friction reducing bottom coating)
- Select Plastics (Marine plastic products including, but not limited to, polycarbonate, acrylic, acetal, Polyteak and Starboard)
- Servicios Nauticos (Nautix paint dealer, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay)
- Shelman USA (African wood products, Shelmarine® marine plywood)
- The Sherwin-Williams Company (Paint)
- Shopman Inc. (Fiberglass epoxy, composites)
- Sika Industry USA (Manufacturer of Sikaflex® adhesives and sealants)
- Skiffkits (Wood components for tolman skiffs, wooden boat building supplies, custom CNC design & cutting, Anchorage, Alaska)
- Skiffy Plastics (Plastic and metal screws, washers, spacers and other bits for finishing jobs, building and manufacturing)
- Slate and Copper Sales Co. (Copper nails, rivets and roves, Erie Pennsylvania)
- Soundproofing America (Online sales of soundproofing materials)
- Sound Specialty Coatings Corp. (Epoxies, paints and other coating products that comply with the clean air act, clean water act and water pollution control act)
- Southern Crown Boatworks (Fasteners and supplies for wooden boat restorers and builders)
- SP Systems (Advanced composite materials)
- Star Distributing (Wood restoration and refinishing products, featuring Smith & Co. epoxy products, West Mystic, Connecticut)
- Star Ten Paint Stripper
- Strawbery Banke Museum (Maker of cut copper clench nails, Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
- Stright-MacKay (Canadian seller of epoxy and fasteners)
- Subsea Industries (Maker of Ecospeed underwater coatings, Antwerp)
- Super Shipbottom Hard Ablative Anti-fouling Paint
- Sweet Composites (Distributors of FRP materials and supplies including Kevlar, fiberglass, carbon, resins, foam, and related tools and accessories)
- Sylvan Industries (Custom plywood, Vancouver, Washington)
- System Three (Epoxies)
- Tacoma Screw Products (Fasteners, tools and shop supplies, 12 locations in the Northwest)
- TAP Plastics (Epoxy and polyester resins, fiberglass fabrics)
- Teak Marine Products (Solid teak decking, teak and holly flooring, teak swim platforms and teak gratings, Delta, British Columbia)
- TenderCraft Boat Shop, Inc. (Fasteners and boat fittings, Toronto)
- Top Secret Paint & Coatings
- Touchwood (Sitka spruce and Alaska yellow cedar, Leerdam, Holland)
- Toxic Woods and Occupational Lung Diseases (By Dr. Mark Anderson)
- Travaco Products (Maker of Gluvit, Marine Tex epoxy products)
- Tremco Sealant/Weatherproofing Division (Maker of Vulkem one part polyurethane sealants and adhesives)
- Trex Wood-Polymer Lumber
- Trimco® (Maker of extruded plastic seals & gaskets, trim and custom extrusions, London, Ontario)
- Tropical hardwoods of the World (Information database)
- UK Epoxy Resins (Epoxy resin, adhesives, fillers, additives, fibre glass tape & fabric, epoxy laminating tools)
- Urban Lumber Company (Lumber from salvaged city trees, Eugene, Oregon)
- Urethane Products Corporation (UPC, manufacturer of polyurea coatings, Bellflower, California)
- The USDA Forest Products Laboratory Center for Wood Anatomy Research (Wood properties information, etc.)
- US Paint
- Utility Composites Inc. (UCI, manufactures and sells Raptor polymer composite nails and staples)
- Valspar Paints
- Vexcel Yachting (IFC Epoxies distributor, Verchères, Quebec)
- Weather Bos® Environmentally Safe Paint & Finish Products
- Welbeck Sawmill (Lumber, boatbuilding plywood, West System epoxy, Durham, Ontario)
- Wessex Resins & Adhesives Ltd. (UK manufacturers of WEST System products & PRO-SET laminating epoxy)
- The Western Association of Fastener Distributors (WAFD, represents the fastener trade in the western United States and Canada)
- The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association
- The Western Wood Preservers' Institute (Information about treated wood)
- The Western Wood Products Association (WWPA, trade association representing softwood lumber manufacturers)
- The Western Wood Products Association Online Lumber Technical Guide (Basic technical information on lumber products from the western US)
- WEST System Norge A/S
- West Wind Hardwood Inc. (Wholesaler/retailer of wood and marine plywood, Sidney, British Columbia)
- William Zinsser & Co., Inc. (Primer-sealers, shellac and specialty decorating products)
- Wink Fasteners (Standard and custom made corrosion-resistant fasteners, Charles City, Virgina)
- The WOB Group, Heinrich Freudenberg (European importer of high grade teak, mahogany and other hardwoods, Hamburg)
- Wood as an Engineering Material (FPL-GTR-113, 1999, free online book from the Forest Products Laboratory)
- The Wooden Boatshop (Castings and fabricated fittings, fastenings, caulking materials, Australia)
- WoodFinder (Search for lumber sources in your area)
- Wood, Steel & Glas, Inc. (Salvaged Atlantic white cedar, northern cedar, bald cypress and redwood boat lumber)
- Wood University (Free online courses for learning about engineered wood)
- Wood & Water of Wickford, Rhode Island (Hard-to-find boatbuilding hardwoods, some sawmill services in their geographic area)
- World Panel Products Inc. (Wholesale marine plywood and lumber)
- The World Wide Composites Search Engine (WWC)
- Yachts 4 U (Agents for the sale and distribution of reclaimed British sea defence timbers)
- You Chang Co., Ltd (Korean manufacturer of glass, carbon and plastic fabrics)
- Boatbuilding Training:
- The Alexandria Seaport Foundation (The Craddock Boatbuilding School, boatbuilding classes)
- The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding (Sausalito)
- The Ballyvaughan Wooden Boat School (Courses in kayak/canoe and small boat building using cedar strip and other techniques, located in the west of Ireland)
- Barefoot Wooden Boats (Wooden boat apprenticeships, family boatbuilding and build your own boat programs, Gabriola Island, British Columbia)
- The Bates Technical College Boatbuilding Program (Tacoma, Washington)
- The Berkshire Boat Building School (Specializing in skin-on-frame construction, Sheffield, Massachusetts)
- Boatbuilding Training at Lowestoft College (Suffolk)
- Building Bridges, Building Boats, Inc. (Enriching the lives of children through boat building, New York)
- Cape Falcon Kayak (Skin-on-frame kayak building classes, Manzanita, Oregon)
- The Center for Wooden Boats (Seattle)
- The Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre (British Columbia)
- The Devon Dinghy Workshop (Short wood boatbuilding courses, Totnes, Devon)
- Falmouth Marine School (Boatbuilding classes, Cornwall)
- Finnboat's Index of Finnish Boat Building Training
- Fosen Folk High School (Traditional boatbuilding, Rissa, Norway)
- The Great Lakes Boat Building School (GLBBS, wooden boat building school, Cedarville, Michigan)
- The International Boatbuilding Training College (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
- The International School of Boat building (At the Lyme Regis Marine Centre, UK)
- The International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS, Newport, Rhode Island)
- Kayak Way (A hands-on boatshop. Kayaks, umiaks & skin boat workshops. Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington)
- KSS Boatbuilding USA (Workshops teaching the Derek Kelsall, KSS method)
- The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design (Kennebunkport, Maine)
- The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building (Port Hadlock, Washington)
- Quadrant Marine Institute (Training in marine repair, boatbuilding and shipbuilding, Sidney, British Columbia)
- Silva Bay Shipyard School (Traditional wood boat construction and repair, Gabriola Island, British Columbia)
- Urban Boatbuilders, Inc. (Non-profit organization providing boatbuilding classes to youths and adults, St. Paul, Minnesota)
- Washington County Technical College (Boatbuilding programs, Maine)
- Whisper Boat Building Academy (A charity organization teaching deaf students the art of boatbuilding, South Africa)
- The Wood Construction Center at Seattle Central Community College (Specializing in wood and fiberglass boat construction and repair since 1936)
- The WoodenBoat School (Brooklin, Maine)
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