NEW! Harbor's Best Greenhouse Kits!
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NEW!
The Spar Shop has announced the immediate availability of
a new high-quality, value-priced greenhouse kit for the home and garden market
. Designed for the small city or a modest back yard, the Harbor's Best Greenhouse Kit is priced for today's budgets.
Learn more...
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We turn wood masts and spars up to 40 inches in diameter and 122 feet long!
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Welcome to the Spar Shop at the Historical Seaport!
We are a unique operation specializing in ship's
wooden masts and spars
, as well as custom columns and poles. We also provide custom milling of wood gaffs, booms, timbers, beams and cants. Learn more about the process for
wooden spar making and mast making
. Call us now at 800-200-5239 to discuss your project or
email us
for a
free quote
!
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We have the largest tracer-lathe in North America.
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Our 10,000-square-foot drive-through shop is one of a kind, featuring the largest tracer-lathe in North America. We can turn logs up to 40 inches in diameter and 122 feet in length. With our two sawmills, we can mill logs as large as six feet in diameter, and create timbers as long as 100 feet or more. Our Job Shop offers
custom fabrication
of movie set pieces, museum exhibits and thematic elements for
custom homes and commercial buildings
as well as short-run-production woodworking projects.
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Watch our Spar Shop crew turn a large mast and talk about our services.
We work with wooden tall ship owners, maritime museums, and movie companies.
Our customers have included leading motion picture production companies, tall ship owners, and maritime museums concerned about
historical accuracy
.
Production companies
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Twentieth Century Fox Films (
Water for Elephants
)
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Paramount Pictures (
Star Trek: Generations
)
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Triad Productions (
The Great American West
)
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1st Mate Productions/Disney Studios (
Pirates of the Caribbean I
)
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2nd Mate Productions/Disney Studios (
Pirates of the Caribbean II
)
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3rd Mate Productions/Disney Studios (
Pirates of the Caribbean III
)
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Stonewerks Productions (
Blackbeard
)
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Rice Gorton Pictures
Tall ships
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Schooner
Zodiac
, Bellingham, WA
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Sloop
Providence
, Providence, RI
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Schooner
Virginia
, Norfolk, VA
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Schooner
Amistad
, Mystic, CT
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Schooner
Bill of Rights
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Star of India
, San Diego Maritime Museum, San Diego, CA
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Ship
Niqa
, Grand Caymen
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Schooner
Mystic
, Mystic, CT
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Brig
Lady Washington
, Aberdeen, WA
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Topsail ketch
Hawaiian Chieftain
, Westport, WA
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Caravel redondo
Nina
, St. Thomas, VI
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Schooner
Mystic
, Mystic, CT
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Square-topsail schooner
Pride of Baltimore II
, Baltimore, MD
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Brigantine
Fair Jeanne
, Ottawa, ON
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Full-rigged ship
Bounty
, North Myrtle Beach, SC
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Maria
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Moose
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Annie
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C Witch
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Schooner
Denis Sullivan
, Milwaukee, WI
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Sloop
Providence
, Providence, RI
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Brigantine
Irving Johnson
, San Pedro, CA
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Schooner
Lady Maryland
, Baltimore, MD
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Full-rigged ship
Joseph Conrad
, Mystic, CT
Maritime museums
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Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, OR
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Aberdeen Museum of History, Aberdeen, WA
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Commencement Bay Maritime Museum, Tacoma, WA
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Garibaldi Museum, Garibaldi, OR
Construction companies
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Klumb Lumber Co., Jackson, MS
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Community Builders, Mineral, VA
Other
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Washington State Dept. of Parks & Recreation
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Grays Harbor College
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John Simons
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Capt. John Johnson
Contact us about your large-scale specialty woodworking needs today!
Call the Spar Shop at the Historical Seaport today
for an estimate on your large-scale milling, turning, or custom woodwork needs. You can reach us at 360-532-8611 or 800-200-5239. Or email us at
sparshop@historicalseaport.org
.
Historical resources on
wooden mast-making and spar-making
