The new 40-foot boom on the 1940 Skipjack "Wilma Lee" is as good if not better than the original. We're also replacing the keel, as well as additional repairs after hurricane damage to this U.S. Coast Guard inspected passenger vessel.

Using the original as a pattern, we are building a Speedster that will do 75 mph because we want our client happy and that is what he wants.

This is the recut slideshow of Moores Marine's restoration of the1929 John G. Alden schooner, "Summerwind," presented at the International Boatbuilders Exhibition and Conference in Louisville, Ky. In less than two years, Moores Marine rebuilt the hull from the keel to the bulwarks on the 102' schooner. Summerwind won the Grande Dame class at the Newport Bucket within a few months of the launch and Moores Marine received the "Innovation in Restoration" award at Woodenboat magazine's 2010 The WoodenBoat Show's Concours d'Elegance.

Reconstruction on Honey Fitz expands to the stern, which was redone by another boat yard not that long ago, to be conisistent with Moores Marine's work in the engine room section. The reconstruction project now encompasses three quarters of the 92' foot hull.

Moores Marine is structurally refiting three-quarters of the Honey Fitz, the eighth Presidential Yacht. This short video is a primer on installing scarf joint planks. The Defoe was originally double planked, with innner and outer planking. And, Moores Marine is putting her back the way she was.

Snap shot of a day of our crew working on Honey Fitz, the presidential yacht most identified with John F. Kennedy although she served five.

Moores Marine's crew is almost wrapped up with replacing a third of the 93-foot yachts, the the engine and tank room sections, and preparing to plank.

Moores Marine Palm Beach's crew prepare the Honey Fitz for new ribs. In the first week, the crew removed most of the twist and hog that had developed over the years with improper blocking and repairs.

Installing laminated, full-length ribs in Honey Fitz, a 93' 1931 Defoe that served as the eighth presidential yacht and a favorite of John F. Kennedy during his presidency.

Honey Fitz, named after President John F. Kennedy's maternal grandfather, who was mayor of Boston, was the eighth Presidential Yacht. She was built in 1931 as Lenore by Defoe Shipbuilding in the Great Lakes for Sewell Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward. At 92 feet, she has one cabin. Mr. Avery obviously used the boat exclusively for entertainment purposes. Moores Marine specializes in antique and classic wooden boat restorations and is documenting the project week by week.

Tank test of three-masted schooner model design to check her waterline and keel weight or a really big boy playing with a boat in the tub. You decide.

1929 Alden Schooner launched to great crowds after two year restoration and refit that returned her to a stunning private yacht.

A tour of Moores Marine Yacht Center in Beaufort, North Carolina where we specialize in antique and classic American yachts. Our 18-acre yacht center is the haul-out home of some of the most beautiful American yachts ever built.

This 2000 Garwood 40' is all varnish and does 40 knots.

Photographs chronicling the reconstruction of a 1929 wooden schooner over a two year period.

From March 2007 to February 2009, the 1929 Alden Schooner "SummerWind" went through a complete reconstruction and refit. On Feb. 9, 2009, the 100-foot schooner came out of the shed in preparation for her new masts and launch.

Clacking of caulking irons, bulwarks off, fairing, as the push continues to launch Summerwind, a 1929 John Alden Schooner

A 1929, 102' John Alden Schooner is reconstructed from bowsprit to transom