# @stauglighthouse on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DH_NB4oOBwT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28907154-stauglighthouse-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-03T14:20:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse

## Caption

HERITAGE BOATWORKS UPDATES! The mast has been put back in place on the Skipjack after the volunteer crew touched it up with UV protection epoxy. They treated the mast, jib, boom and gaff and now she’s looking ship shape! ⚓️

SKIPJACK EXHIBIT DETAILS
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 program, 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. 

This handcrafted vessel is on view on the grounds of the nonprofit St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. 

Museum hours are 9 AM-6 PM seven days a week. Learn more at staugustinelighthouse.org 

📸: Photos by Chuck Meide chuck_meide 

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