Great video my boat was built last year by a French boat building school and took 4 boat builders 6 months of very hard work to build. Sadly they didn't finish it so I am now fitting the interior. When you look at the boat closely you can see they had so make some repairs to the planks. So don't beat yourselves up it's all about the learning curve. She will be beautiful when she is finished and just think about what you have learned in the process. I realised when fitting the interior boat building and fitting out is not simple and takes a lot of trial, error and tons of patience. Good luck lads.
I admire the athleticism of you chaps. Being able to kneel on the floor, or get up again once you have lain under the boat. Things I haven’t been able to do for the past decade or so.
I love your videos, it’s like watching Top Gear with only James May and no cars, just a boat, one that gets more beautiful with every episode. Keep up the excellent work chaps 🍻
Love it when you capture the lens of the Go Pro, "Watch what you say, you never know when it's recording". Takes me back to 2001 Space Odyssey when you see Hal 9000 listening to their conversations. Hal, open the pod bay door please,,,,, Hal,,,,,, I can't do that Dave
I’m loving the videos, and so glad to see I’m not the only one building (trying anyway) a boat that’s too big for the shop! Can I recommend Nomad BoatBuilding to you and your viewers? He’s a pro not a cowboy, but his videos have a similar vibe, relaxed, funny and interesting. Thank you for the films, and keep up the good work!
Most of the boats I restore/finish have sat unfinished, neglected for decades, as life gets in the way of the prior owners. The best thing about cowboy solutions is the boat gets wet sooner than later, which she throughly enjoys... and... Filming the building of a boat takes three times as long as building a boat. Treehouse🌲Boat⛵️Works
Yes the typical two steps foreward one step back. So nice to see you salvage some of the old wreck timber. Now, I'm a bit lost in the chronological order all of this was filmed or go-pro-ed. In this episodeyou mention it is february, (end of december now) and then mentioning the titanic mistake the video shows green oak leafs. That leaves me to think you are in Australia NZ or South Africa. Nevertheless great stuff. Waiting for the next episode. Happy and healthy 2024. Martin
Hi Martin. Yes it's complicated. Basically we are much further ahead in the build than the release of the videos. That way we can wrap the whole series up in around 10 or 12 episodes from concept to sailing. Well hopefully anyway. I'm very impressed by your continuity skills! Np we're in the uk and not time travellers (yet!).
Don’t feel like a couple of planks guys, this must happen all the time in boatbuilding and the benefit is seeing the adaptions to the snags that appear and as far as the split plank repair is concerned this is a great way to show how to repair a plank that has rotted at the bow in older boats without replacing the whole plank. Surely the challenges are better to watch than just a straightforward no problems build, for me they are anyway.
Nice work blokes. I have to say........ What I would have done, given that you've had recourse to the blessed epoxy, I would have just released the fastenings in that region, worked epoxy into the split, clamped it up, refastened it when cured et voila. Epoxy is immensely strong. I'm building a boat myself, another one, and using no fastenings at all, just wood and epoxy glue. One of the wonders of our age! There will be lots of these kinds of events, but they do say that the real skill, is learning how to rectify your cock ups. Cheers
With all the rules and regulations I feel like I have slipped into an alternate reality. Years ago I remember someone getting a ticket for polluting the bay because he was scraping the barnacles off his dinghy.
Great to see Omar and O'Toole back in action again, though why the GoPro kid was invited is beyond me. Great to watch, keep going and really looking forward to the flip, however long it takes to get there.
Couple of thoughts: Avoid grain run-out (cause of your split). Screw rather than nail into the stem? Have you considered the tradition method of bedding planks with very thick old paint or varnish? Could always put mastic on the hood ends as well as a belt and braces... (never like putting mastic on bare wood). Re: the rivet issue, option 5. consider 3 inter-timber rivets i.e just put in another one each side, maybe dropping down to a 13g if you're worried about splits. You only need to do it for the garboard / 1st plank lands and revert to 2 rivets thereafter.
Thanks for your thoughts. Some really interesting solutions. We have used a modern mastic on the hood ends - in retrospect I would prefer to use putty. Perhaps next time.
Go Pro are a pretentious lot, Bit like cat really. Glad to see the David Lean effort it put in on the closing take. Enjoying the building and visual great composition through out your work. Great effort, Go Pro withstanding, bloody diva.
Absolutely brilliant, I love it! I'm in the process of building a 12ft clinker built sailing dinghy myself, so the challenges and difficulties are very familiar. I just have the garboards on so am some way behind you - and will get further behind over time! Can I ask what mastic you are using? I've got some Sikaflex but not sure what is the best option. Many thanks for sharing your experiences and giving us some humour too.
February? What sort of weird time-travelling video is this? Great work, as always. This is a really nice video series of an interesting laid-back build........but I think we've probably heard enough about the camera!
Oh dear. It's complicated. Basically we are much further ahead in the build than the release of the videos. That way we can wrap the whole series up in around 10 or 12 episodes from concept to sailing. Well hopefully anyway. I'm very impressed by your continuity skills!
I vaguely remember being taught as a RN Shipwright to build a clinker planked boat upside down. The overhead work which with each strake becomes more horizontal is putting roves on the nails. The ribs, I think we called them timbers, were put in after turning the boat. My brother, who was a civilian Shipwright would deal with that split by saying “the advent of modern adhesives has made joints unnecessary.” However I like your scarf, quite a normal thing to do in the interests of economics. Since you are following an instruction book this comment is to promote discussion not to gainsay you. and
I think that a mahogany sheer plank would look lovely if finished bright, provided it is long enough. It has enough distance between the two ends, so to speak. Otherwise, perhaps some mahogany thwarts would be very attractive. The keel timber in that wreck looked very inviting too.
We've only used mastic on the garboard to keel and the very ends of the planks around the geralds. Traditionally putty would have been used and I think next time I would go for putty.
As we say in Hollywood.....LOVE your work! But seriously, entertaining, beautifully filmed. And on a practical note....thanks for pointing me to John Leather's book, which I just found online, 2nd hand for 8 quid +post. As an amateur cowboy, am refurbishing a Kragerø Terne from 1967, and the only plank I have to replace completely is a garboard. Fortunately only 12 mm thick pine (Pinus Sylvestris), reducing toward the stem, so I managed without steaming it. Is that larch planking you are using, by the way?
Sounds a great project. I recommend Traditional Maritime skills as a youtube channel too. The planks are from Canadian douglas fur but tyhe sheerstrakes are larch and the timbers will be oak (in the next episode.)
You must realize, gentlemen, that removing the mahogany board from the wreck, without replacing it with something of value, has brought down the "curse of the wreck" upon your noble project. I fear that this curse will generate no end of mayhem with your build until the spirit of the wreck is appeased with some appropriate offering.
Great video two questions: is your planking stock local (Devon) or imported; what gooop sealant are you using. One comment: could your split be repaired by routing and gluing in a aplinein a spline
Hi. We ended up using Canadian Douglas fur which is fantastic quality and larch for the sheerstrakes. In retrospect, if the larch had been seasoned, we would have used it for the entire hull. We're using arbo 1000 which seems ok as it's only used between the hog and the garboard and a little bit in the geralds. I think the routing option may have been as complicated as the replacement and not such a tidy fix.
When I built a plywood boat I built the hull upside down. Is there any special reason why you bill a clinker boat right side up? Built upside down you have gravity working for you and access is much easier. Clinching nails or doing washers and riveting is not difficult using a dolly inside the hull.
I can't help feeling that GoPro is casting a bit of a malevolent eye on proceedings, rather like the HAL9000. It looks like you have the choice of wood for the planking, will there be an article on your supply at some point, or is that a closely guarded secret at the moment? The repair was spot on and shown to be a minor setback, rather than a disaster. Happy New Year.
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 Thanks for the reply. I don't think it is easy to source wood that is cut right, I have had trouble finding any quarter sawn stuff at timber yards for projects I have done.
You've already epoxied the stem, couldn't you've epoxied that split on the plank? Doesn't matter though it all worked out. I'm glad you put option 4 on the table to ease your souls if only for a few seconds lol
Yes we did consider epoxy but the plank had begun to pull out of shape. So that might have been as tricky as the scarf which seems to be working surprisingly well.
Well I guess I should be able to build a boat in about 2months because in my mind I think I could build one 1️⃣ month. I greatly overestimate my ability. 😂 realistically it’s probably going to take me years
That's why all has stopped using their gopro as the main camera, their unreliable. I have 2 and haven't used them for 3 years i will but only for second shots.
Option four really made me laugh. Outstanding story telling, videography and workmanship. The humour is excellent. I’m hooked !! Regards Paul
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video my boat was built last year by a French boat building school and took 4 boat builders 6 months of very hard work to build. Sadly they didn't finish it so I am now fitting the interior. When you look at the boat closely you can see they had so make some repairs to the planks. So don't beat yourselves up it's all about the learning curve. She will be beautiful when she is finished and just think about what you have learned in the process. I realised when fitting the interior boat building and fitting out is not simple and takes a lot of trial, error and tons of patience. Good luck lads.
THanks for the encouraging words. Much appreciated.
I admire the athleticism of you chaps. Being able to kneel on the floor, or get up again once you have lain under the boat. Things I haven’t been able to do for the past decade or so.
Yeah it can be cold on that workshop floor too!
You guys give me the confidence and belief that an old guy (me) can build his own boat. Thank you.
Absolutely. Go for it and work it out as you go. It's always good to start by getting some line drawings and plans and building a model.
Really enjoying your series , thank you for sharing , and the inspiration
You are so welcome!
I love your videos, it’s like watching Top Gear with only James May and no cars, just a boat, one that gets more beautiful with every episode. Keep up the excellent work chaps 🍻
Wow, thanks!
You guys are doing really amazing videos. Inspiration stuff 🙌
Thanks so much!
Love it when you capture the lens of the Go Pro, "Watch what you say, you never know when it's recording". Takes me back to 2001 Space Odyssey when you see Hal 9000 listening to their conversations. Hal, open the pod bay door please,,,,, Hal,,,,,, I can't do that Dave
Yeah Im waiting for it to speak back!
Love your work and your videos! Honest and with humour, just the way it should be. Have a wonderful 2024!
Many thanks. Happy New Year to you too!
I love he problem solving solutions when catastrophes occur. That's boat building at it best.
Yes we're trying to seem the 'problems' as 'challenges' but sometimes....
Great video gents! Keep up the good work and the light humour 😅😅😅
Thanks so much!
haha love the editing! (Also... David Lean truly was a genius.)
Agreed - he certainly was!
I know nothing of boats, or of sailing, or of boat building but I love these videos !
That's so nice to hear.
I’m loving the videos, and so glad to see I’m not the only one building (trying anyway) a boat that’s too big for the shop! Can I recommend Nomad BoatBuilding to you and your viewers? He’s a pro not a cowboy, but his videos have a similar vibe, relaxed, funny and interesting. Thank you for the films, and keep up the good work!
Best of luck with your project and thanks for the recommendation
Now, someone else knows what I went through. I just couldn't put in such elegant wording. I love you two.
Blood, sweat, tears and joy heh?
What a great way to start the New Year with you two guys in a shed with a pile of wood lovely work
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for your kind comment.
Great episode. I feel your frustration, it’s happened to me many times on my 3 and a half year project.
Thanks for sharing. It's not all easy is it?
Really enjoying the filming, the honesty and the telling of it. Subscribed !
THanks.
Most of the boats I restore/finish have sat unfinished, neglected for decades, as life gets in the way of the prior owners.
The best thing about cowboy solutions is the boat gets wet sooner than later, which she throughly enjoys...
and... Filming the building of a boat takes three times as long as building a boat.
Treehouse🌲Boat⛵️Works
Yes filming definitely takes up time.
Yes the typical two steps foreward one step back. So nice to see you salvage some of the old wreck timber. Now, I'm a bit lost in the chronological order all of this was filmed or go-pro-ed. In this episodeyou mention it is february, (end of december now) and then mentioning the titanic mistake the video shows green oak leafs. That leaves me to think you are in Australia NZ or South Africa. Nevertheless great stuff. Waiting for the next episode. Happy and healthy 2024. Martin
Hi Martin. Yes it's complicated. Basically we are much further ahead in the build than the release of the videos. That way we can wrap the whole series up in around 10 or 12 episodes from concept to sailing. Well hopefully anyway. I'm very impressed by your continuity skills! Np we're in the uk and not time travellers (yet!).
Your videos are top notch. Keep up the good work.
Glad you like them!
Don’t feel like a couple of planks guys, this must happen all the time in boatbuilding and the benefit is seeing the adaptions to the snags that appear and as far as the split plank repair is concerned this is a great way to show how to repair a plank that has rotted at the bow in older boats without replacing the whole plank. Surely the challenges are better to watch than just a straightforward no problems build, for me they are anyway.
Thanks Alan. Glad you appreciate the approach.
Very good video, I like the warts and all series, really starting to get in to this build, thanks for sharing.
Glad you are enjoying it - more warts to come!
I’ve been waiting for this episode since the last one, excellent stuff guys
Great really glad you enjoyed it. Next one will be out on Saturday 13th Jan.
You have done a wonderful job
Thanks
Nice work blokes. I have to say........ What I would have done, given that you've had recourse to the blessed epoxy, I would have just released the fastenings in that region, worked epoxy into the split, clamped it up, refastened it when cured et voila. Epoxy is immensely strong. I'm building a boat myself, another one, and using no fastenings at all, just wood and epoxy glue. One of the wonders of our age! There will be lots of these kinds of events, but they do say that the real skill, is learning how to rectify your cock ups. Cheers
Thanks for your thoughts, that would certainly be another solution.
With all the rules and regulations I feel like I have slipped into an alternate reality. Years ago I remember someone getting a ticket for polluting the bay because he was scraping the barnacles off his dinghy.
Glad it was useful.
Great to see Omar and O'Toole back in action again, though why the GoPro kid was invited is beyond me. Great to watch, keep going and really looking forward to the flip, however long it takes to get there.
Yeah but to be honest, they get in the way a bit - keep talking about costume and make up and want to rehearse everything!
Couple of thoughts:
Avoid grain run-out (cause of your split).
Screw rather than nail into the stem?
Have you considered the tradition method of bedding planks with very thick old paint or varnish? Could always put mastic on the hood ends as well as a belt and braces... (never like putting mastic on bare wood).
Re: the rivet issue, option 5. consider 3 inter-timber rivets i.e just put in another one each side, maybe dropping down to a 13g if you're worried about splits. You only need to do it for the garboard / 1st plank lands and revert to 2 rivets thereafter.
Thanks for your thoughts. Some really interesting solutions. We have used a modern mastic on the hood ends - in retrospect I would prefer to use putty. Perhaps next time.
Go Pro are a pretentious lot, Bit like cat really. Glad to see the David Lean effort it put in on the closing take. Enjoying the building and visual great composition through out your work. Great effort, Go Pro withstanding, bloody diva.
Agreed but to be fair - very easy to use. Point and go.
Absolutely brilliant, I love it! I'm in the process of building a 12ft clinker built sailing dinghy myself, so the challenges and difficulties are very familiar. I just have the garboards on so am some way behind you - and will get further behind over time! Can I ask what mastic you are using? I've got some Sikaflex but not sure what is the best option. Many thanks for sharing your experiences and giving us some humour too.
Sounds like a great project. We are usig something called arbo 1000 but I think sikoflex sounds like a very good option.
Loving your work guys!
Best wishes for 2024.
Same to you!
February? What sort of weird time-travelling video is this?
Great work, as always. This is a really nice video series of an interesting laid-back build........but I think we've probably heard enough about the camera!
Oh dear. It's complicated. Basically we are much further ahead in the build than the release of the videos. That way we can wrap the whole series up in around 10 or 12 episodes from concept to sailing. Well hopefully anyway. I'm very impressed by your continuity skills!
RONTL rolling on the flour laughing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great episode!
Here is a suggestion: The appropriate name for your GoPro is "HAL". 😉
I like it!
I vaguely remember being taught as a RN Shipwright to build a clinker planked boat upside down. The overhead work which with each strake becomes more horizontal is putting roves on the nails. The ribs, I think we called them timbers, were put in after turning the boat. My brother, who was a civilian Shipwright would deal with that split by saying “the advent of modern adhesives has made joints unnecessary.”
However I like your scarf, quite a normal thing to do in the interests of economics. Since you are following an instruction book this comment is to promote discussion not to gainsay you. and
Sounds like you have got some valuable experience. Thanks.
You guys do great work. In my part of the world a wreck like that would be worm (mollusc) shit in a few months in summer!
Yeah it's frustrating seeing that lovely timber go to waste.
I think that a mahogany sheer plank would look lovely if finished bright, provided it is long enough. It has enough distance between the two ends, so to speak. Otherwise, perhaps some mahogany thwarts would be very attractive. The keel timber in that wreck looked very inviting too.
Great idea - keep watching. The mahogany reappears in episode 8 I think!
Hilarious, so hooked on your videos. One question, why are you using a mastic on the planks, normally clinker doesn’t have anything like that? 🤷♂️
We've only used mastic on the garboard to keel and the very ends of the planks around the geralds. Traditionally putty would have been used and I think next time I would go for putty.
As we say in Hollywood.....LOVE your work! But seriously, entertaining, beautifully filmed. And on a practical note....thanks for pointing me to John Leather's book, which I just found online, 2nd hand for 8 quid +post. As an amateur cowboy, am refurbishing a Kragerø Terne from 1967, and the only plank I have to replace completely is a garboard. Fortunately only 12 mm thick pine (Pinus Sylvestris), reducing toward the stem, so I managed without steaming it. Is that larch planking you are using, by the way?
Sounds a great project. I recommend Traditional Maritime skills as a youtube channel too. The planks are from Canadian douglas fur but tyhe sheerstrakes are larch and the timbers will be oak (in the next episode.)
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 Thanks 👍⚓
Fantastic video. Staring into the go pro reminded me of HAL in 2001. Kubrick as great as Lean perhaps.
Good call!
You must realize, gentlemen, that removing the mahogany board from the wreck, without replacing it with something of value, has brought down the "curse of the wreck" upon your noble project. I fear that this curse will generate no end of mayhem with your build until the spirit of the wreck is appeased with some appropriate offering.
Thanks for the advice - we'll get working on it. Do you think a shot of whisky will sort it?
Subscribed. What are you using for bedding compound?
It's a sealant called Arbo 1000 but I think sikoflex would be very good.
Thx.@@jonsealwoodturning4673
A beautiful edit. Not bad for a couple of cowboys😂
Howdy and thanks!
Great video two questions: is your planking stock local (Devon) or imported; what gooop sealant are you using. One comment: could your split be repaired by routing and gluing in a aplinein a spline
Hi. We ended up using Canadian Douglas fur which is fantastic quality and larch for the sheerstrakes. In retrospect, if the larch had been seasoned, we would have used it for the entire hull. We're using arbo 1000 which seems ok as it's only used between the hog and the garboard and a little bit in the geralds. I think the routing option may have been as complicated as the replacement and not such a tidy fix.
When I built a plywood boat I built the hull upside down. Is there any special reason why you bill a clinker boat right side up? Built upside down you have gravity working for you and access is much easier. Clinching nails or doing washers and riveting is not difficult using a dolly inside the hull.
That sounds interesting. I think it works for us because we can see the shape of the boat emerging.
I can't help feeling that GoPro is casting a bit of a malevolent eye on proceedings, rather like the HAL9000. It looks like you have the choice of wood for the planking, will there be an article on your supply at some point, or is that a closely guarded secret at the moment? The repair was spot on and shown to be a minor setback, rather than a disaster. Happy New Year.
THanks and happy New Year. We used Canadian douglas fur for the planking and larch for the sheerstrakes. More on that later.
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 Thanks for the reply. I don't think it is easy to source wood that is cut right, I have had trouble finding any quarter sawn stuff at timber yards for projects I have done.
You've already epoxied the stem, couldn't you've epoxied that split on the plank? Doesn't matter though it all worked out. I'm glad you put option 4 on the table to ease your souls if only for a few seconds lol
Yes we did consider epoxy but the plank had begun to pull out of shape. So that might have been as tricky as the scarf which seems to be working surprisingly well.
I had no idea that David Lean was the directore of The Titanic---mistakes. Good luck in the New Year placating the Wholly Fussy GoPro.
Yeah I think it was the one he tried to make before 'In Which We Serve' but it was a bit of a failure - sunk without trace!
😂
Ever heard of a creeper?….mechanics use them for crawling around under cars….it will support your head and back and moves easily
Great idea! Thanks.
now we know the derivation of garboard - g'aaarrrgggh-board!
Love it!
Boys just put three roves in the first two planks
Better too many than not enough
Good advice.
Well I guess I should be able to build a boat in about 2months because in my mind I think I could build one 1️⃣ month. I greatly overestimate my ability. 😂 realistically it’s probably going to take me years
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That's why all has stopped using their gopro as the main camera, their unreliable. I have 2 and haven't used them for 3 years i will but only for second shots.
I wiuld like to answer but the Go Pro is sitting a bit close to the keyboard :)
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