Bankslander here. Sachs Harbour was the only harbour on the island deep enough for her to get hauled out of the water. Fred had the first store on the island and used the northstart to stock it. Love this series I hope there are plans to bring it back to the community it helped build even for a visit.
My uncle Ken built a transhipment terminal for Northern Transportation at Tuk in the late 1960s. They used it to transfer goods from their MacKenzie river barges to the Broderick, a WW 2 LST repurposed for supplying the settlements around the Canadian part of the Arctic ocean. I got a chance to visit in 1970, when I was working for the company (If you want me you're going to have to take my nephew too!) I still remember visiting the Broderick, still locked in ice in June, on one of the original Bombardier ice vehicles. While I was there Ken was asked to prospect for an airstrip on Banks island. This he was good at, since he had been in charge of building the advanced landing grounds for the Canadian army on their way up through France, Belgium, and Holland during WW 2. At one point they were turning them out at the rate of one every 3 weeks. He flew up on a WW 2 vintage C47, piloted by his old friend, the legendary Gordy Latham. Since they had no place to land, Gordy just looked down at the beaches and chose one he thought was good enough. Fortunately he was right.
This and Travels with Geordie with someone living on and maintaining an old wooden Monk give me my pleasant insights as to how our Canadian nautical cousins are doing things right! Keep up the great work 👍🏻
I sure love everything about this channel… the project, the history, the shipwrights, dogs and a soundtrack played on the ships guitar. Brilliant stuff 🙏
A good trick on old screws is the biggest electric soldering iron you can get and trim the end so it's not a point but flat and heat the screw for a while and they come easier
We have an adjustable machine at work that heats up aluminum inserts in airplane floors that are epoxied in, works great, basically its 2 prongs that short out with DC voltage.
North Star is my favourite ship. I was lucky to stand on her decks years back at the Victoria boat show. Also, a while back there was a schooner in Cowichan Bay named Favourite. That have anything to do with Favourite Boat Works?
As work continues with every episode, it looks like the gods of the north must have smiled on your project to account for the fact that North Star made it to the boatyard afloat on her own bottom! Was she being held together by tradition and the paint and copper bottom? Thanks for continuing with the history and photos of the history of the North Star and her place in the Arctic for trade. Well done, and March on: Would access to a ship saw have made the frame construction more straightforward? Or would that require access to her original lifting plans or perhaps a traditional half model that could be sawn into slices at every station?
On further thought, I guess today you would laser scann the boat inside and out and get a 3-D point cloud… Get a perfect model adjust for any hogging and slice up in cad for your frame patterns…. But I guess that would not truly reflect the traditional aspects of your restoration. “never mind”😅
We got a large bandsaw shortly after this was filmed and were then able to saw our bevels into the frames. More ribbands were put in and patterns were made.
Laminated cedar for frames? You guys are professionals and I'm a mere amateur boatwright, but I've never heard of using softwoods for framing traditional boats, except for things like Buehler chine hulls that just use off the shelf fir lumber for the structure.
What make kilt is the old fella wearing? And how long do they last ? I’m a tugboatman, my Carhartts are good for about a year, more with patchs. On my time off I’m a piper, but I wouldn’t subject my wool uniform kilt to hard labor.
@Pocketfarmer1 Utilikilts workman out of Seattle. 10 oz. duck canvas. Nothing finer. I’ve tried all the “other” work kilts. They don’t last or compare. I’ve worn mine on 5 continents land sea and air. Arabian desert to Siberian winter.
Black locust. Robinia pseudacacia? Here in the UK at was planted here and there in ones and twos by the Victorians. We know it as false acacia. Never knew it was good for anything. I've learned something. The stuff I've seen has always been scrubby and poor in form.
I sat through Leo replacing every piece of tally ho and replacing it. it was fascinating but sooooo inefficient. I don't think I can watch it again. if this was my boat it would end in a boat shaped bonfire. sorry.
Wouldn't it be better to have one lecture on the boat's history and just get on with the rehab work? Its getting tiring having history lectures every episode, or that may be the sure way you may never get even half of those who followed Tally Ho and Acorn to Arabella. Of course this is only my opinion.
Bankslander here. Sachs Harbour was the only harbour on the island deep enough for her to get hauled out of the water. Fred had the first store on the island and used the northstart to stock it. Love this series I hope there are plans to bring it back to the community it helped build even for a visit.
My uncle Ken built a transhipment terminal for Northern Transportation at Tuk in the late 1960s. They used it to transfer goods from their MacKenzie river barges to the Broderick, a WW 2 LST repurposed for supplying the settlements around the Canadian part of the Arctic ocean. I got a chance to visit in 1970, when I was working for the company (If you want me you're going to have to take my nephew too!) I still remember visiting the Broderick, still locked in ice in June, on one of the original Bombardier ice vehicles.
While I was there Ken was asked to prospect for an airstrip on Banks island. This he was good at, since he had been in charge of building the advanced landing grounds for the Canadian army on their way up through France, Belgium, and Holland during WW 2. At one point they were turning them out at the rate of one every 3 weeks. He flew up on a WW 2 vintage C47, piloted by his old friend, the legendary Gordy Latham. Since they had no place to land, Gordy just looked down at the beaches and chose one he thought was good enough. Fortunately he was right.
Great project, great video, great story! Canadian history we never learned in school - thank you!
Our pleasure!
I find it amazing what can be done to revive an old rotten wooden boat. Good to see your skill and determination at work
This and Travels with Geordie with someone living on and maintaining an old wooden Monk give me my pleasant insights as to how our Canadian nautical cousins are doing things right! Keep up the great work 👍🏻
Peter Knowles is great, glad you found us too!
The effort this team puts in, is Incredible.... so exciting to see new wood going on.
5:48 I love this so much😂❤ great editing for such a handsome man
thanks keep up the good work
real deal. nice to watch actual craftsmen work out real fabrication problems.
Thank you!
Brilliant video thank you 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
I sure love everything about this channel… the project, the history, the shipwrights, dogs and a soundtrack played on the ships guitar. Brilliant stuff 🙏
Interesting restoration. And it looks like it's in capable hands!
A good trick on old screws is the biggest electric soldering iron you can get and trim the end so it's not a point but flat and heat the screw for a while and they come easier
We have an adjustable machine at work that heats up aluminum inserts in airplane floors that are epoxied in, works great, basically its 2 prongs that short out with DC voltage.
Incredible stuff as always, such an interesting history surrounding the North Star!
Keep it coming ! Thank you
North Star is my favourite ship. I was lucky to stand on her decks years back at the Victoria boat show. Also, a while back there was a schooner in Cowichan Bay named Favourite. That have anything to do with Favourite Boat Works?
Look forward to seeing her in Tuk harbour again
Would love to see her up there!
As work continues with every episode, it looks like the gods of the north must have smiled on your project to account for the fact that North Star made it to the boatyard afloat on her own bottom! Was she being held together by tradition and the paint and copper bottom? Thanks for continuing with the history and photos of the history of the North Star and her place in the Arctic for trade. Well done, and March on:
Would access to a ship saw have made the frame construction more straightforward? Or would that require access to her original lifting plans or perhaps a traditional half model that could be sawn into slices at every station?
On further thought, I guess today you would laser scann the boat inside and out and get a 3-D point cloud… Get a perfect model adjust for any hogging and slice up in cad for your frame patterns…. But I guess that would not truly reflect the traditional aspects of your restoration. “never mind”😅
We got a large bandsaw shortly after this was filmed and were then able to saw our bevels into the frames. More ribbands were put in and patterns were made.
What percentage of the original boat is left?
Hi you mentioned that you are going to use yellow cedar in place of the black locust, would red cedar be a better choice?
Us new visitors to your site have no idea about the origins of this boat and it's age. Can you add some basic history to your info at the top?
On the UA-cam channel description?
Maybe you should try to buy Leo Goolden ,s shipsaw Tally Ho is out of the shed now.
Beats struggling wit a handheld Skisaw an a lot of powerplaning 😅
In Houston they would have fixed with spray foam and wood filler and deck sealer and said she is unsinkable.
Glad we're not in Houston 🤣
Clearly this boat was floating because it wanted to be afloat, not because physics deemed it so.
Some vessels have a strong will to live!
Laminated cedar for frames? You guys are professionals and I'm a mere amateur boatwright, but I've never heard of using softwoods for framing traditional boats, except for things like Buehler chine hulls that just use off the shelf fir lumber for the structure.
We are using Yellow Cedar (Cypress).
It was quite commonly to frame boats of the Canadian Pacific fishing fleet.
@@quillgoldman3908 Are there any advantages over white oak? I'd bet it's a good bit lighter.
@@SavingMaverick55 air dried, locally available stock. Doesn’t cause iron sickness…..
Never heard of locust wood , where is that type of tree located ? Must be a hard wood
Extremely hard and rot resistant, grows all over the world from the Americas to Asia, Australia etc..
Get ahold of Leo from the Tallyho's project. I am sure he has a giant band saw he can sell you guys. He has a YT channel.
👍!!!
Will the boat be a replica like Tally Ho, (a reproduction) or will you retain all the good wood?
We will retain as much wood as possible.
What make kilt is the old fella wearing? And how long do they last ? I’m a tugboatman, my Carhartts are good for about a year, more with patchs. On my time off I’m a piper, but I wouldn’t subject my wool uniform kilt to hard labor.
Not sure how long they last, but the brand is "Utilikilt"
@@FavouriteBoatworks I suspected as much. Thank for the reply.
@Pocketfarmer1
Utilikilts workman out of Seattle. 10 oz. duck canvas. Nothing finer. I’ve tried all the “other” work kilts. They don’t last or compare. I’ve worn mine on 5 continents land sea and air. Arabian desert to Siberian winter.
Oh. Longevity.
I wore my first one overseas for two years every day before it disintegrated.
Yes I washed it regularly.
😃😃😃
I think at this point, The North Start is looking like nothing more than a mold being broken apart for that brand new boat that's being built!
Molting like a crab, a new boat will spring from the old
Black locust. Robinia pseudacacia? Here in the UK at was planted here and there in ones and twos by the Victorians. We know it as false acacia. Never knew it was good for anything. I've learned something. The stuff I've seen has always been scrubby and poor in form.
Correct, like mentioned in the video it’s extremely dense and rot resistant, high in silica so it tends to dull tools fast.
I sat through Leo replacing every piece of tally ho and replacing it. it was fascinating but sooooo inefficient. I don't think I can watch it again. if this was my boat it would end in a boat shaped bonfire. sorry.
Wouldn't it be better to have one lecture on the boat's history and just get on with the rehab work? Its getting tiring having history lectures every episode, or that may be the sure way you may never get even half of those who followed Tally Ho and Acorn to Arabella.
Of course this is only my opinion.
Personally I like the technical/historical information tucked into the video.
Agree - it makes for a nice balance having both
We intend to make education and history a large part of this channel, not only about North Star but other vessels, historical events, etc.
Damn man just enjoy the content
Never heard of locust wood , where is that type of tree located ? Must be a hard wood
It grows in many places around the world, from North America to Europe, Australia and Asia. It’s incredibly hard.