W.Howard boatbuilder

W.Howard boatbuilder Will Howard runs a small business building and restoring wooden Thames boats in the sleepy riverside village of south Stoke.

Will runs his own small business specialising in building and restoring Traditional Thames wooden boats. After qualifying at Falmouth Marine school, Will continued his training at Peter Freebodies and Henwood and Dean boatbuilders gaining experience with some of the best boatbuilders on the Thames. Will also won preservationist of the year award at Henwood and Dean from building a Thames skiff in

2008, presented by Prince Michael of Kent for the British Transport Trust. One project Will was very fortunate to have had was some involvement in working alongside master boat builder Mark Edwards on the Gloriana for The Queens Diamond Jubilee. Please feel free to get in touch for all your traditional Thames boating needs.

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28/03/2026

Storage available get in touch

18/03/2026
The mahogany and oak comes to life with the guilding shadow on the cove line and name…
03/03/2026

The mahogany and oak comes to life with the guilding shadow on the cove line and name…

Thames double skiff after being scraped and re varnished…. English oak and Honduras mahogany
26/02/2026

Thames double skiff after being scraped and re varnished…. English oak and Honduras mahogany

Myself and Tian breathing some life into his new boat a rather special 1960’s Broom Viking…. More pictures to follow… de...
18/01/2026

Myself and Tian breathing some life into his new boat a rather special 1960’s Broom Viking…. More pictures to follow… decks stripped back and re varnishing underway with Epifanes vatnish….

17/12/2025

Everyone loves a wash coat after all the hard work 🥰

12/12/2025

Carefully removing thole pins from the sax board for re varnishing

11/12/2025

Tim Bird back doing a second coat and working his magic today in south stoke….

A Chris craft continental I restored the decks on for a customer in 2010 scraped sanded stained and re varnished…
10/12/2025

A Chris craft continental I restored the decks on for a customer in 2010 scraped sanded stained and re varnished…

Bruff a double ended Thames built dinghy by AE Saunders of Streatley. This was actually built by harry Saunders for Aurt...
10/12/2025

Bruff a double ended Thames built dinghy by AE Saunders of Streatley. This was actually built by harry Saunders for Aurther Saunders back in 1901. Alas I lost my old phone with restored pics of her…. 10’4” long by memory and built from Honduras mahogany on rock elm timbers.

10/12/2025

Jed working some magic today cleaning the port side cove lines old gold leaf and reforming the cove line for new guild work to commence once the varnish is built up enough…

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Wallingford

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+447896993573

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