Sea chest

Traditional sea chests and sea chest construction plans featured by Marlinespike.com. Browse the gallery to select from finished chests or purchase a book covering sea chest history and construction methods to build your own.

Back to Gallery The sailor’s sea chest was once a ubiquitous object on everything from Navy to whaling to merchant vessels. Traditionally, a highly personalized and prized possession, a seama…

American Sea Chest Used Aboard Whalers 1815-1862 Jotham Tripp 1815 and Theodore Tripp 1862

How to Build a Viking Inspired Sea Chest: Introduction to Building a Sea Chest This instructable will show you in 9 steps how to build a Norse or Viking Sea Chest. Perhaps it would be better described as a chest ‘inspired’ by the classic six-board Viking design. This build is quite flexible…

Sea Chest - 1870's

IF I COULD I WOOD ( a Shaper Sheet Treasure Chest ): No trees were harmed in the making of this Ible. If I could I would, create lots of things from wood ,but for so many people across this country ,who may not have access to the proper tools,or have spa…

I stumbled across an issue of Wooden Boat magazine that had Gary Larkins' write-up of his experience drawing and building the sea chest, and figured it would be a pretty great first or fourth project...

How to Build a Viking Inspired Sea Chest: Introduction to Building a Sea Chest This instructable will show you in 9 steps how to build a Norse or Viking Sea Chest. Perhaps it would be better described as a chest ‘inspired’ by the classic six-board Viking design. This build is quite flexible…