# @stauglighthouse on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGgu1TduxYv - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26929537-stauglighthouse-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1a9009fff0.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-02-25T21:47:59.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse ## Caption 10 YEARS AGO in Heritage Boatworks! Can you imagine lifting a 19’ 6” long wooden boat? It took about fifteen volunteers to accomplish the task (in 2015) as they flipped our Florida Skipjack onto her keel. Volunteers in the Heritage Boatworks Program at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum orchestrated the successful maneuver — which involved rolling the boat onto a bed of tires before repositioning her on the stand. The handmade history is currently on view on the Light Station grounds. The St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum has been supporting traditional boatbuilding in St. Augustine since 2007 when it first established the Heritage Boatworks, a living boatbuilding exhibit the purpose of which is to recover and pass on the art of traditional boat carpentry to future generations and share it with the general public. In the Heritage Boatworks, community volunteers learn and practice the traditional art of boat carpentry in full view of the public, and produce great works of art out of local timber. In late 2013 the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum received funding from a Crisp Ellert grant awarded by The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida which has recognized the artistic aspects of the traditional joinery work used in boat carpentry. The grant was to fund the construction of a traditional sailing craft that was relevant to the maritime history of St. Augustine and northeast Florida in general. The museum chose to build an authentic replica of the Florida skipjack built in New Berlin in 1878 and documented in 1936. Hours are 9 AM-6 PM seven days a week. #staugustinelighthouse #heritageboatworks #boat #woodenvessel #skipjack #staugustine #florida #exhibit #handcrafted #vessel #maritime #maritimemuseum #staugustine ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 65 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 0 ## Tags woodenvessel, boat, maritimemuseum, florida, heritageboatworks, vessel, staugustine, skipjack, maritime, exhibit, staugustinelighthouse, handcrafted --- Copyright (c) Gondola