Discover Secrets to Boat Building: Hull, Keel and Stem Fairing Explained! S3-E14
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- In this episode of building Victoria, Arabella's tender, Boat builder Bob Emser shows some secrets to fairing a hull. From hand planning, long boarding and using fairing compound the small 9'Dinghy starts to take shape. In addition to explaining some fairing tools, Bob also show how to shape and install the boats keel and outer stem. Victoria will be the sailing tender for Steve Dennete's boat Arabella as seen on the UA-cam cannel Acorn to Arabella.
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Bob is the embodiment of the word fastidious.
Thanks!
I really enjoy watching all of the handwork that goes into wooden boat building
That boat is going to cut through the water really good. I bet Steve is loving the progress and how good it's coming out.
You make me feel that time doesn’t matter, perfection does.
The keel turned out beautifully, Bob.
Just love how the keel and stem transformed the look of the boat.
I wish I could have faired my boat in less than 20 minutes! Well done - she looks great!
Me too!
If you think that only took 20 minutes, you need to step away from the chemical fumes and get some fresh air, like right now!
It is always wonderfully relaxing watching a skilled craftsman at work.
Bob, your knowledge, craftsmanship and patience are joys to behold. She's looking beautiful!
I really like the aesthetic of the boat and keel line, the way that you have faired it in. Looking forward to the fibre glassing stage Bob.
Thanks. Fiberglass next episode!
This was an excellent episode. Really enjoy seeing several aspects covered on a longer video.
Hi Mark,
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a beautiful boat... I know it had to be done, but I started to cry when you began to cover all that pretty wood with fairing compound.
It is wonderful to watch an artist at work. You are producing a great boat.
She is coming along beautifully! Great work-so pleasing to watch!
The shape is pleasing to the eye. A true working piece of art.
She’s beautiful. Impressive workmanship. Bravo!
Beautiful work, Bob!
You're doing a wonderful job, I love it!
Are you intending to put in a front door? I guess in a boat this small they are more for aesthetics but they do look nice.
By front door are you referring to a hatch in the front bulkhead? If so no. It will be a flotation chamber. There will be lockers in the center and aft seat.
Thanks for watching!
I guess he is referring to the front door that has been made for tally ho in the episode yesterday..
surely was referring to yesterday’s TallyHo episode. It was an epic April fools prank.
@@mm-hl7gh :) The front door on Victoria would be more like a cat flap but heh. Just my attempt at humour.
I know they asked for paint but your work would have made an outstanding varnish finish. Still, it will be beautiful. 👍👍 Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
She is coming right along Bob and looking great. Thank you for the video and for teaching us about boat building.
Now that is a beautiful little boat! That one really fits your motto.
It is even aesthetically pleasing to watch you work. Not only do you make it beautiful, you even make it beautifully.
I came to your channel via Steve/A to A, and having watched all the Victoria videos so far, I have to say, your craftsmanship makes for heart warming watching session!
You really need to go watch his tool making videos, and his other two boat builds. They are all so worth the watch.
Nice work. I have found when I run my hands over the fairing/sanding area, that I close my eyes. Seems to heighten sensitivity by concentrating on what you feel, not what you see.
Indeed! I do the same.
You make this look so easy. Also, thank you for pointing back to previous videos. I enjoyed learning how you made the fairing tool in S2-E27.
You do magnificent work. Makes me want to run my hand across the hull. Beautiful.
Thanks David!
Glad your here! Take care and thanks for sharing 😊
No other channel on UA-cam does it better. This channel inspires me to get into the shop every time. Keep up the great content
Awesome! Thank you!
Bob, terrific work as always. I'm sure Steve's crew on Arabelle are capable of doing an excellent job of fairing and finishing A2A's hull but I would just love to see what you could accomplish.on her hull after seeing your work on the dingy. In any event your new dingy will obviously look terrific sitting on Arabelle's cabin roof.
Ah!
No one could make it any better!
Keep up the good work 👍
JIM❤
Thank you very much!
The stem looks good she's all faired up just about ready for some epoxy work.. looks great thus far Bob. cheers bud.
Thanks 👍
I wish I could feel the smooth wood after your arduous sanding! I’m sure it’s rewarding!
I wish you could too!
You never disappoint in the quality of your videos and your work Bob. Victoria is looking svelte. Looking forward to seeing the glass go on and her turned upright. Thank you and have a great week ahead.
I am so enjoying your build, Bob. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Love your style sir. Very informative at every step.
I appreciate that!
Work of art ! Congrats ! Looking forward to the next episode.
Beautiful! ❤
Cheers from Alaska
Looking good Sir!
Thanks again for sharing your craft.
Such beautiful work, Bob. You definitely raise the bar.
Thanks I try!
I enjoy watching a skilled craftsman at work. great job it looks like Victory will move through the water nicely.
First class content, really enjoyed this episode
You're certainly making it look beautiful. Enjoyed watching.
Amazing craftsman! Really beautiful work.
Thank you very much!
As a non-American viewer of your videos i appreciate it very much you're using metric measurements descriptions in addition to imperial ones.
Just one remark as a former wood worker: with increasing precision we tend to use millimeter (mm) rather than centimeter (cm).
So 1.9 cm would be 19 mm and 12.7 cm would be 127 mm (talking about 1 cm is okay though).
Nevertheless thank you for your great work !
Excellent work friend, I bet Steve will be pleased, have a nice day !!!. Brian UK !!!. 🌊🌊.
Many thanks
Nice to watch a professional at work, thanks
The little vessel is really coming to life.
Talk about somebody having OCD. Awesome work man!
great work Bob looking fantastic.
Really enjoy watching you work. When I do this sort of work and also following Louis Sauzedde, Nick Schade
and also Mark Reuben Nomad boat building I paint the two surfaces to be bonded with unthickened epoxy before applying the thickened. I think the theory is that the wood (particularly the cedar) will absorb the resin from the thickened before it sets up and the joint won’t be as strong.
I've seen that same approach also. tm
Metric units in subtitle - wonderful 😊
Thanks for the confirming comment.
A work of art as always. Looks beautiful. Really enjoy your videos. And I do not miss the music. I like the sound of your tools.
Thank you! Cheers!
Fun to watch. Rings back some memories on past boats I’ve built. Thanks
Misery boards is not what I have known them by, but torture boards. I faired a 38 ft catamaran by myself doing what you have just shown.
Your Barber needs to be commended too.
Victoria will be beautiful. Nice work.
Thank you! 😊
Bob, that looks like more of a workout than your Crossfit. Beautiful job.
It sure feels like it. Thanks for watching!
Está quedando hermoso.Saludos.
Beautiful, Bob! That's a real work of art! 😃
Perhaps some day I try to build... A canoe. 😬
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Well Bob I have you got that last part right! It's looking beautiful.
Looking good
You my friend, are a remarkable craftsman.
very satisfying to watch such a craftsman - my dad on the other hand would say he can watch other people work for hours
love what your doing, absolutely boatiful (see what i did there)
So much love and care is going into Victoria, really looking forward to watching the next episode. Are you on target to have it ready the the launch of Arabella ?
I certainly hope so! As I map out the tasks I pretty confident that Victoria will get wet along side of Arabella.
Cheers,
Bob
Fantastic job Bob! It is looking so beautiful! Thanks for sharing
It's hard to resist reaching out and feeling for fairness of the hull
A True Craftsman a new Sub here
Thanks, welcome aboard!
I watched the older video, about making the tool, but by mistake I watched the wrong one where you were using the fairing compound. Why did you keep it out of the gaps between the planks on that boat, but on this boat you made it a point to fill them? Thanks.
In the older video the Haven hull was carvel planked. This traditional method relies on the hull swelling up to seal the seams. In the dinghies strip planking the planks are intended to be glued together, hence filling the steams. The dinghy will be fiberglassed inside and out where the Haven only gets paint.
Hope that helps. Thanks for watching!
@@TheArtofBoatBuilding Thank you!
I love that you are making a “Tally Ho” style dingy for Arabella.
Hi Richard,
The dinghy is based on a William Atkin design. Arabella is an Atkin design boat. It is Steve desire that the designs work together. So I hope you'll love the "Arabella" style dinghy for Arabella.
Thanks for watching!
Bob
@@TheArtofBoatBuilding , I meant no disrespect. My Tally Ho reference was a remark about the ultra high quality of workmanship.
Bob, you are a master! I love watching you work.. I live in Washington State now, but was raised and grew up just down the road from Eureka. I graduated from Washington CommunityHigh in 1957. As a kid, I spent a great amount of time at or on Eureka Lake. Were you there, Eureka, that far back?
Hi Joe, Thank you!
I grew up in East Peoria, graduated in 1972. We spent a occasional picnic/family reunion at the lake. I moved to Eureka as a young adult for Eureka College where I taught for 13 years. Launched my first boat in Eureka Lake.
Thanks for watching.
Cheers,
Bob
Bob, a guy like you, probably 6'2 or better should make some taller saw horses and reduce that steep bend to get over your work! Your craftsmanship is certainly evident in every step!
I wish barely 5'-10" and shrinking!
Great Stuff!!! And I hear a bird or birds in the background that we dont have in our neighbourhood! Viewing from westcoast Canada! CHEERS from HERE!!!
I do love the bird sounds. Great sign that spring is near.
Those were Northern Cardinals-The State Bird of Illinois
Beautiful work, perfect
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi,it is becoming a beautiful little boat,I love the softness of the curves.wil you be fitting half round bead irons to the keel as protection when possibly running onto a beach?Roly🇬🇧
One of the reasons I used Black Locust is because of its hardness. It will be coated it fiberglass and resin so it will be very durable. I will add a couple of half rounds at the bulge for protection. Whether they or brass or wood is yet to be determined.
Thanks for watching!
Love to build a small sail boat like this. Have to finish my cedar strip kayak first lol
Do as I say not as I do. "One boat at a time is best!" When you're ready for the next boat you may be interested in my boat building clinic.
www.boatbuildingbootcamp.com
And Victoria lives on in the tender. She's Beautiful and will look Great on Arabella
While I have thoroughly enjoyed your work with the Art of Boat Building I am looking for references for your sculpture work prior. I have a high school friend form the 60's who is an artist in bent wood. Rick Maxwell now lives in Dallas but we knew each other around Chicago. Please lead me toward your previous efforts. Thank You. Craig sends
here’s my art website
www.bobemser.com
Thanks for you interest
Very nice
Thanks
Very satisfying. It's certainly beautiful.
Great work sir.
Wonderful 👍... Goodonyas!
Thank you! Cheers!
I remember the olden days when you turned a screw in by hand
Thanks for the video
Great job so far. Roughly how many hours would you have into this project so far ? Thanks for the videos.
No clue! hard to calculate all of the planning and design time. Which if you ask my wife I'm doing all the time.
Thanks for watching!
Really enjoy your channel. Just wondering if there will be an episode 15 for season 3? Cheers!
Indeed there will. S3-E15 will be posted this weekend.
Excellent! Thank you so much.
Sure is beautiful, great work!
To me it looked like for the fairing compound you used fairy dust! beautiful curves taking shape.
Looks Great!!
Great job!!
Great work. When the hull is finished will you be handing it over to Steve and Co to do the fibreglass work, or will you be doing this as well?
Hi Steve,
I'll be finishing the boat completely and be ready to launch along side of her mothership in June!
@@TheArtofBoatBuilding Excellent thanks. Looking forward to the future episodes.
Great video !
I'm wondering if you flushed out all the screw holes with solvent to allow the compound to adhere properly? Beautiful work as usual!
A work to art.
Absolutely no NEED to go to the gym when fairing a hull, big or small I would imagine...Great video cheers...rr
So the Total Fair does not require you to prime the wood with regular mix epoxy first? Say that you used WEST with some thickening compound for your fairing agent, then I think it would be required to prime the wood with epoxy first and then apply the mixed thickener. Not so with the Total Fair?
Do you use a batten to see if the curves are fair in addition to going by feel? I think that'd take a couple helpers...
Yes, I do use a batten it check fairness over a long distance.
Whatever happened to the last boat you were building? You were nearly done and then just stopped. Or did I miss seeing it launch?
It's beautiful work I like it
But I find one spot. Which is need put putty on left side of it near stem
Ha Ha! You missed April Fools day but good one anyway.
So do you have to put the cotton between the wood strips before see what all for good.😅
Why the split in the stern part of the keel? What's its function?
I think it forms the base for a jet to be a skeg
Correct it is for the skeg.
@@TheArtofBoatBuilding After Jacob's answer I had to look up what a skeg is (EN not native to me) and it makes sense and should have guessed it as you see these skegs on hulls all the time. I read it helps with steering but I would expect it would rather help with a vessel keeping course and drift less due to lateral forces. But I now very little about boats 🙂
Just for clarification, is the primary function of the wooden structure just to act as a form and to fill the space between the inner and outer fiberglass skins?
Yes
What watch are you wearing? Kinda looks like a Ernst Benz, maybe?
It's watch I designed with the Art of Boat Building logo.