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From the Boatyard to The Ocean Race Atlantic
We have just come off a huge five days presenting the Floating Stories Lab booth in the Racing for the Ocean tent as part of The Ocean Race Atlantic’s Park City installation in Lorient, Brittany.
1 Year in Under 8 Minutes
1 Year in Under 8 Minutes, our latest YouTube video, has got some serious momentum on the platform, so if you haven’t seen it yet, we think it’s worth the watch. We also have important updates about our membership program to share.
Weekly Digest | Week 55 Hand Building an Ocean Catamaran & Our Latest Art x Science Residency
Braving putrid temperatures and a two-day black out were a group of talented artists and academics who joined us in Finistere for the 2026 FSL ReTISS Citizen Science Creative Residency. No joke guys, it was a bloody hot week. Between field trip visits to the local Boat Cemetery, kayaking up the Goyen River to view these sites of decay from the water looking back, and debris collecting, the team worked together during creative interpretation sessions to co-create the Table of Curiosity, which FSL will begin touring next month to festivals, events and conferences across Brittany.
Putting those stringers behind us AND learning new alchemy. Also, HOW big are those backbones?!
We wrap up Week 53 in the boat yard, sharing updates and great news about a BIG incoming donation of timber!
Boat Build Weekly Digest: 7 Days of Work (Week 52)
Welcome to the new Weekly Digest segment on YouTube, with real-time updates dropping on the channel every Sunday evening.
Two months of boat building projects achieved in a week?
Our first ever Boat Build Residency is a success!
We’re Building a Boat… While Chasing a Bigger Problem
From glue-ups in the yard to hosting scientists across Brittany — a couple of big weeks here for FSL!
Meditative Epoxy Flows and Peak Sensory Peel Ply
Is peel ply worth it? We answers your questions and share our processes using bio epoxy and peel ply on our 12m wooden catamaran build.
One Year of the Floating Stories Lab!
The Floating Stories Lab is celebrating its one-year anniversary as an association this month!
Video: Wet Wood?!
In the latest episode of the Boat Build Series on YouTube, we address our wet wood issue by building plywood drying racks, a wood drying chamber, and we tackle the task of scarfing ALL our movingui timber stringers and the starboard hull’s plywood backbone joins.
Regenerative Tides Endorsed by the United Nations Ocean Decade
Our citizen science initiative Regenerative Tides: Sailing for Solutions joins UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program. Plus more news from the boat yard and a new book alert!
Huge Progress: Drawing, Cutting and Scarfing the Backbone of our Wharram Catamaran
Marc, a student from the traditional wooden boat building school Atelier l’Enfer, joined us for part of his work placement last week, helping us to leap ahead at a very important stage of the build: drawing, cutting and scarfing the backbone of our 12m Narai Mk IV catamaran.
Wharram Hui Audierne 2026
We are thrilled to be welcoming the Hui to Audierne this summer and especially cannot wait to see Hanneke Boon’s Pahi 63 Spirit of Gaia and all the beautiful Wharram catamarans arriving to the harbour.
BOAT BUILD: Our Plywood is Faulty
In this episode of our Boat Build video series, we talk through our French Maritime Pine plywood crisis and contemplate going to Africa to document the supply chain of FSC certified Okoume ply that we are now likely going to be using for the boat build.
Video | Boat Build Series: Episode 5
In this episode, Simone and Remy show us the process of scarfing and then rounding the edges of the Movingui timber sheer stringers for our 41ft wooden catamaran.
Cutting Movingui Legacy Hardwood Planks
Our latest video in the Boat Build series shares the experience of cutting our Movingui legacy hardwood planks, which was no easy feat!
Video: Lofting the Boat & Materials Testing
Join us lofting our Wharram Narai Mk IV Wooden Catamaran plans on to drawing plywood, then testing European Maritime Pine and the Australian produced Change Climate 100% Bio Epoxy Resin with surprising results!
Drawing the Lines
Milestone moment with our boat build, drawing the lines of our Wharram wooden catamaran.
The Flooring is Built
We opted for a minimalist, inexpensive flooring with the objective of having a level, clean and dry base atop which to spend the next two years building FSL’s 41ft Polynesian-inspired Wharram Designs wooden catamaran.
First Volunteer Working Bee
The worksite flooring project is underway at CapSo with a team of volunteers