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Mystic Seaport Preservation Shipyard
These aren't your father's shipbuilders. More like your great-grandfather's.
Witness the lost art of wooden shipbuilding in the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard, an awe-inspiring opportunity to watch skilled craftspeople perform skills made nearly extinct by steel and fiberglass.
From a visitors’ gallery, the Shipyard offers a bird’s eye view of carpenters’ shops, an amazing 85-foot spar lathe, a rigging loft and a large, open area where the Museum’s vessels are brought indoors for repair.
Other shipyard sights include a paint shop, a metalworking shop, documentation shop, lumber shed and an old-fashioned saw mill full of rough-cut logs.
Best of all, everything’s being used – historic methods for historic vessels.
Learn more about what's going on in the Shipyard:
Hays and Ros Clark Shiplift
Current Restoration
Previous Restoration Projects
Research & Documentation Shop
Thames Keel & Shipbuilding Exhibit
John Gardner Small Boat Shop
Marine Engines
Marine Railway
Did you know?
The recreated freedom schooner Amistad was built at Mystic Seaport's Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Buy the Amistad Launch Commemorative Coin today!