Restoring Josefine Part 1
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Restoring Josefine, our 1931, 50ft former Danish fishing Ketch. #boatrestoration #woodenboats #sailingvlog #sailingchannel #alternativeliving #alternativelifestyle #woodenboatbuilding #travelvlog #adventure #sailingadventure #sailingadventures
This is AMAZING! I've been looking for Josefine since she was for sale listed in the August 2021 Classic Boat Magazine. She was painted yellow then. I tried hard to find out who owns her now, and was thrilled to learn today from an Australian couple about "Restoring Josefine". I sailed on her in 1968, from Ibiza to the Canary Islands, when the Danish family owned her. We were grounded in Spain and it took 5 months to get her off the beach, repaired on dry dock and to the Canary Islands. I LOVED that old black gaff-rigged ketch! I have a glorious photo that I took of her under full sail in 1968 - hours before we were grounded. I have many stories! I'd love to connect with you through email. I wonder where you are now? I'm going to watch all your series and only am on episode 1. This is super exciting. I look forward to hearing from you. Tamar Griggs
My father was a shipwright than become a carpenter both my older brothers worked in shipyards in newfoundland I think it was in Trinity Bay and my one brother would build a skiff every winter and sell her in the spring of the year. He did that for many years. Now my older brother is passed and the other is retired now. I just found your channel and have been binge watching your content and I love it. Your living your dreams as far as I'm concerned if I didn't have a screwed up back I'd love to sail around the world If only my wife loved boats as much as I do.
Can't believe how much work you carried out yourselves.
You will be time served ship wrights by the time you've finished.
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Hi Craig, we have been lucky to have such generous shipwrights helping us, it has been a privilege, Josefine would have been scrapped without them and the skills we have learnt will make sailing her so much more pleasurable.
Just found your youtube site, I've been watch Leo Goolden and must say the struggle youse guys have gone through is a 'Life's Crucible' all of it's own and will be part of your souls forever, thank you for sharing your journey!
Thank you Brian, I think you sum it up quite nicely.
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Wonderful to see traditional craft being restored! Thank you for this video!
Take good care! Cheers from Guam! 🇬🇺
Thank you.
It's so good to see this old lady being reborn. I only found your channel tonight. I don't think I have ever seen so much work on a boat in one Iideo before. You've got some bottle the pair of you, all credit to you. I look forward to seeing the finished job. Take care, keep safe and best regards.
Whoa…you guys took on a life’s mission. God bless ya. You are way braver than I am. That boat owes you its life. I watched your initial we got scammed by the surveyor. I never figured you would take this on. But you did apparently. Best of luck! I think you will get it done.
Thank you Bob, it won’t be for the want of trying!
Found you today. I love how you really restore her. Just doing what's necessary. Looking great.
Welcome Steve and thank you.
I enjoyed the pace of this episode, no need to spend 30 minutes watching someone scarf on a plank. This is more a record of what's been done and well done both, or rather, all of you. I've subscribed and will watch the other episodes you've done and will do in the future.
Thank you, we are very pleased you enjoyed the video and welcome to our channel, I hope we continue to keep you entertained.
You are dead right. How many times do we need to0 see a copper nail being fitted.
What can I say other than I look forward to following you on your journey and hope and trust the money does not run out!
Thank you Patrick.
I think you are fortunate to have the cooperation of a good partner that makes almost anything doable in more enjoyable I wish you good success on your rebuild and hope to see you on the water sometime
Thank you David, you are so right, after 46 years or so living together, we are pretty well intune!
Like Brian, I have just found this video, and as a retired Boat owner ( nothing on your scale by the way) I know how much time, effort and money a Boat can take from you, wooden Boats especially. This is definitely a Labour of love and I have the greatest admiration for you both. It's goes without saying that the reward will be worth the effort and you will have years of pleasure from the beautiful Josephine.
Thanks Peter, stay tuned, we hope to get away in next 6 months and will keep the story updated.
I love how you sprung a batten to mark the extent and curve of the deck prior to the removal of the aft bulwark and deck structure. Bravo! nice technique.
Hi Wade, we have recently finished the stern and are very pleased with how it turned out. Looking forward to showing it all in upcoming video. Thanks and hope you enjoy more of our videos.
Hats off to you for bringing her back to life. It will be worth it all in the end! 😃
Thanks, we keep telling ourselves that!
the reality of this video should be a reminder to any potential boat owner to beware , there are more sharks in boats than in the sea ! you are all doing a fantastic job, this vessel will be great once again, thanks for sharing your journey.
Thanks for following Tony and thanks for your support.
That was absolutely brilliant. Thankyou so much for filming your work . I remember sailing alongside Josephine many moons ago. Thanks again and well done to the whole team .
Thank you and hopefully you will have the opportunity to see her at sea again soon, we hope to be doing sea trials early next year, then we will be on our way!
Just found your channel. I'll be here for every video. Cheers!
Thank you Dwayne, welcome.
I've been following the vlog "Sailing Yabà" in Brazil made by Ben and MP. The whole schooner was rotted and every plank, bar one, had to be replaced. The Brazilian shipwrights had a mammoth task, and now I'm following you too, applying the same techniques. Fascinating ! Bon courage !
Great video, looking forward to watching more, and it's great to find others in the UK working on wooden boats x
Thank you.
Reminds me of sailing Yama , Building a new boat one plank at a time
I we had the budget we probably would David, but believe me, we think very hard before replacing Josefine's timbers and only the absolutely necessary work is done.
Wow. It is the knowing where to start that impresses me so. Such very talented people. The ship will eventually be like Triggers broom in “Only fools and horses” and yet, be every bit Josephine still. I take it that the salt water preserves the lower timber better than the fresh rainwater? I am off to binge watch all episodes now. God bless you and the YT algorithm that brought me to you!👍🙏
Thank you Robin, hope you enjoy the rest and will follow our story. Yes you are right, salt water is actually very good for the boats wood, fresh rainwater is terrible.
Very satisfying work, especially so with the help of a shipwright or two. Big project going well. Cheers!
Many thanks, yes, our shipwrights Dominic and Jason and the ship yard T Nielsens are an essential ingredient. Randie and I are in our late 60’s, have a very tight budget and before our shipwrights took us under their wing, we knew absolutely nothing about boat restoration, Randie is a retired care worker for the mentally disabled and I am a retired flying instructor!
Fantastic job you are doing. Lovely to see all that new wood going in.
This is one of these video´s, where I think for a moment that I could not do that and feel sub-standard.
It is unbelievable what motivated people can achieve, that is for sure. Hat´s off from an old Navy man.
Thanks for watching Steve, one of the reasons why we bothered to video our work is because we believe anyone can do this but sometimes might just need a bit of encouragement or perhaps a bit of guidance on how it might be achieved. We were very lucky to find shipwrights like Dominic and Jason prepared to show us the way, we believe there must be others, in fact we wonder if it might not be a good business model. The alternative is that old wooden boats like this become the preserve of the wealthy or get scrapped, you don’t know until you ask! We just wish we were a bit younger, the energy levels are not what they used to be and every joint hurts! 🙂
@@SailingWood I agree totally. At the end it is all about the financial freedom to do it, but talent has to be there and you abviously got it:) Please keep on sharing your video´s with us , who are staying land bound!
Cheers from Germany
Very nice video. Thank god there are still crazy boat people at large doing wonderful projects.
I just discovered your channel. I wish I discovered it before. Great work. This is what it is all about. Binding oneself to such a worthwhile project makes one’s life worthwhile and full. I will look out for your videos. Thank you.
Thank you Joseph, it certainly makes it full! 🙂
Great project and well done video. Looking forward to seeing more. I'm restoring a Hallberg-Rassy P28... and taking a damn long time to finish it.
The dedication and pugnacity... I'm in awe. So many skills required. & doing this hard work in winter (just before the stupid lockdowns started I think?)... This is love right there. 💙 from France.
Getting out of bed at 5.30am on a cold wet winter morning and climbing into our cold, clammy work clothes, was probably the hardest part of the project!😁
Whao...
I can't believe She'd still float
after watching the dissection
of Her crumbling bark.
Best wishes for Her
the Both
and the rest of the wrecking crew
in the New Year.
I'll certainly keep watching.
Many thanks Phillip, glad your onboard. Above and below the waterline are 2 different environments and the one above is the most hostile, Josefines hull below the waterline is in pretty good condition, thankfully! :)
Yeah...
I had water to say:
best wishes for 'er bottom
and the both of us
but I can see 🙈
and thought should not
confine the wish
more but be most extensive
with it.
Though you as
You make it look easy
I might have well said
knots to the deep blue swell anon.
Reminds me of the "Sailing Yaba" channel.
Grate job Reg, well done the both of you.
Your working speed is phenomenal - great stuff, thank you
I have just found your channel I will follow it with interest. I hope you find the journey worthwhile in the end, good luck.
wow wonderful to see a nice boat be restored back to her former glory! Keep up all the hard work she will repay you in adventures and safety!
Many thanks. From early next year we will be posting regular videos of our experience including, hopefully, sailing her!
Lots of work!! Great job!!
Good job lads. You obviously like to live your life to the fullest I can. Relate to the sailing. Drinking n debauchery
Brilliant vids by the way Josephine is a delight cheers n beers Marty. Australia
Many thanks for the encouragement.
Love this. Just about to start the second episode 👍🏻
Thank you David.
Great name for a boat, Josephine is one of the best songs ever written IMHO! along with every other song Slobberbone ever recorded.
Hi Toby, Thanks for joining us, we will be making regular video updates from next year, just too busy with boat work at the moment, we are videoing the work but can’t find the time to edit it! Josefine is a Danish built boat, hence the spelling and is pronounced ‘yo - sephine’ rather than ‘jo - sephine’, hope that makes sense. Had not heard of Slobberbone but will now check them out. There is a Danish song about a boat called Josefine written by a friend of ours called Richard Burgess (folk - Doggerland - Anders Ådin, Patrick Wingård & Richard Burgess), that song is based on an original French song also about a boat called Josefine. Not Rock!
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Wow, that's a massive undertaking and it shows how much rot you have taken out... kudos to you both it is fantastic to see what you have done so far. Those belaying pins and the deadeyes look fantastic.
I have a tremendous admiration for this couple.
Good Job! U show well the guts of a wood boat... Keep going, the force is with U, Balkan Shipyards
Thank you so much for making this presentation.Beautifully done.If any one were to document this vessel and her Restoration I would love to add it to my library.
Hi Joe, Thank you and welcome. We will be posting regular videos from next year documenting our experience from the beginning so please stay tuned.
My God I have never seen such progress, you have some super shipwrights and you both move pretty fast. This is my first episode, Nov 7 2021 and I have just subscribed. I live in the left corner of the U S and there are some wooden repairs going on just 36 miles away. Will be watching. Thanks for your channel.
Hi Graves, Thank you and welcome. We will be posting regular videos from next year documenting our experience from the beginning so please stay tuned.
So I stumbled across this channel and I enjoyed watching this episode. I subscribed so I can follow the progress
Hi John, Thank you for joining us and happy you enjoyed our videos. Early next year we will begin weekly videos sharing our attempts to rescue Josefine from the beginning and with a bit of luck, continuing with sailing Josefine, so please keep wathching.
All I can say mate is you do not deserve this , I really appreciate your hardship and I hope the seller's of this nightmare have no luck. I just found your site so I will be watching with interest .
Excelente trabajo ya se ve el conocimiento tecnico en los trabajos que estan realizando animo y enhorabuena por tan excelente proyecto
Thank you for the encouragement.
i like it.
Thank you Ronald.
Excellent work , subscribed 👍🏻
Thank you Mike, welcome.
Very good job !! congratulations ...
Many thanks Robert.
whaoo, just found you. great work and nice to see
Thank you Ed, welcome.
Absolutely heartbreaking. Where is that no hoper inspector now?.
Not sure if your building a sailboat or rebuilding sailboat doesn’t look like a repair does it? Can’t stop watching though. 👍
Thanks for watching. I know what you mean, it sometimes feels like that, but believe me, we are doing only what has to be done and in the least expensive way, we couldn’t afford any other way.
Wow I think you should buy that survey or a new set of cement boots
The work you are doing is for a 25-year-old now at age 69 I decided I’m too old to rebuild a big wooden boat again
And we know it David! Randie is also 69 but I keep telling her its all in her mind!
Was the surveyor shot at sunrise or did he walk the plank?
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So you are doing all this while on a mooring, using floating dock sections as work platforms for hull repairs, and you have a steal barge / ship as a workshop? Is the workshop from the boatyard or do you own that as well? Nice work. How stable do you feel working off a floating dock?
Hi, thanks for your comments. Yes, we are breasted up alongside a 1900 three masted brig and the metal barge workshop that belongs to the boatyard and which they kindly let us use, it is a very useful workspace. When, for example, working on the hull, making and fitting covering boards or fastening stanchions, we work off steel floating pontoons and we find them very stable. They have been invaluable , saved us a lot of money on dry docking and allowed us to keep the hull safely wet. We can’t do long planking just above the waterline because the end of the plank would end up in the water before being bent up into position although we have managed to do most of it and we can’t do the counter stern because of the overhang, we will go into dry dock to deal with that. The pontoons are brilliant.
wow!
if people find you are genuine they will only be too pleased to send donations to you, don`t be too proud to ask others to do. why don`t you put out a help plea, others do and can get some reward for doing it, all the best and the regards,
Hi Brian and thank you for your support and encouragement. For the moment we are just enjoying the fun of sharing our experiences, if it got to the stage where we couldn't afford to keep funding the production of the videos without help, then we might consider some form of crowd funding. We are glad you are on board and hope you will continue to follow us, particularly as we do receive a small amount of funds from advertising revenue if we get enough followers.
What stories could those timbers have told ?
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Im speechless... did you sue the surveyer?
Hi Rudolf, check out our next episode when we will bring you the full story before drawing a line under the terrible experience for good!
Love U
Thank you!
Sorry big waist of $
Respect…
Thank you.
To be honest I think you guys got screwed by the "surveyour" and hopefully there is some kind of legal recourse for you.
Love the channel. But PLEASE Arrange your playlist from oldest to newest chronologically. It skips all over.😢
Hi Wade, sorry for that, it was caused partly by the way the channel evolved but I can provide a solution by creating another playlist called ‘chronological’ and I will do that very soon, just want get a few more important jobs ticked off then I will sit down and do a proper revision and reorganisation of the site map. Glad you enjoy the production anyway!
Ребята, один вопрос, вы когда начали реставрацию на судне хоть что-то из несущей конструкции было живым? Не проще ли было снять все размеры с оригинала, и попросту построить все с нуля?.. Суды по представленному видео, на нем практически нет живого места..
Hi, We are going to go back to the beginning and tell the story in a series of new videos so stay tuned, but briefly, whilst we have completely replaced the deck, the ships hull including all her frames, are in good condition. Some jobs proved cheaper to replace than repair, like the stanchions. So far we have kept the budget within sensible limits and our pocket, rebuilding the ship, even if it had been necessary, would have been well out of our reach. More coming!
We’re you able to sue the surveyor cheers from Aus
Hi John, we will explain all in our next video, its not simple!
Looks like and interesting restoration, but the video lacks explanation of the various aspects and details of what you are doing. The 'groovy-techno' background music and amplified hammer pounding, etc. make this video difficult to watch.
Hi Kevin, thanks for your thoughts. I understand what you are looking for but that is not our aim or within our competency. We are first and foremost about entertainment for a boat discerning audience. If we make it more technical, we will loose everyone else! There are plenty of other channels who have obviously slowed down their builds in order to provide what you want, we, on the contrary, are trying to finish building Josefine as soon as possible! Cheers.
what are the hull timbers like?
Hi Bob, except in the stern, the frames proved to be OK but we have done a lot of replanting, you can see a lot of the rebuild of the stern in part 14 (when we went into dry dock).
The sound on this one is really bad, some things are so soft you have to turn it all the way up to hear and then suddenly the sound is so loud it blows your speakers and eardrums. Good luck with fixing your boat though.
Hi Rachael, Thanks for your comment. There are some parts where the vocals are deliberately left as background ‘noise’ only, just enough to know that someone is talking but not necessary to hear the content as it wasn’t important. Artistic interpretation! Overall sound levels should be otherwise balanced but I will investigate.
brave man! I surely would have turned away from that vessel...
Hi Benedek so would we, had we known! The “expert” surveyor that we employed before buying the boat, told us she was in great condition and ready to sail! We are going to tell that story soon so stay tuned!
@@SailingWood subscribed! Can hardly wait!
What a nightmare!
We just took it a day at a time Jonas, our lovely shipwrights have been the difference and we have had a lot of fun too!🙂
You might want to consider, that people are listening to your movies using headphones. As beautiful as the footage is, the sounds are too loud and can be really annoying. When I search for vids of this type, I search for experience, information and the poeple behind it, not at all for effects of whatever kind. It's not impressive!
Hi, thanks for your comments, we appreciate your view, the truth is, we would love to upload different versions of the video to suit different audiences and different devices but it clearly is not a practical solution, all we can do is put out what we think will be largely and overall enjoyed, for example, we keep ‘iinformative’ bits as simple as possible because unlike yourself, not everyone wants to be primarily informed, we believe most people want to be entertained first, informed second. We do, however, take all comments into consideration when putting together future videos. Thanks.
Could do without the music though.
Hi Brett, we probably did over do it, but it was our first video and made really for friends and family only, we had no idea it would one day be seen by a much wider audience.
Whisky plank anyone?
the music is too loud.
Hi again Bob, yes agree, this was our very first video and was produced really as a xmas greeting and update for family and friends, we originally only put it on UA-cam because that was the easiest way to ‘share’ it. We have since learnt, although we still make mistakes and of course can’t please everyone all the time, but we are better I think overall. Cheers.
@@SailingWood yes, some of my early videos were very raw, hahahaha.
Your music spoils the video.
As far as I'm concerned the 'musick' makes it unwatchable.
Understood.
Trying to restore a boat while it's not dry-docked seems an exercise in futility.
Have we not proved the contrary? At £100 ($140) per day for dry docking, we have so far saved $56,000 that we didn’t have! The boat is also much better preserved in than out of the water. Of course there is work we can’t complete from the floating pontoons but we will keep that to a necessary minimum.
@@SailingWood What's also proven is the actual condition of the keel beam is not known until it's out of water. Re: Leo & the Tally Ho rebuild, financed entirely by online donations.
@@ajfmusical Leo’s project is very different to ours. There was nothing worth salvaging on Tally Ho so Leo has made a new version using the old one as a template, he couldn’t possibly do that afloat because Tally Ho can’t float until he has built her! We are restoring, replacing only that which is unserviceable. We did, of course, have Josefine carefully surveyed in dry dock before we began so that we knew she was ok below the waterline or at least what work was needed, we could handle. I firmly believe that restoring afloat, working from pontoons is perfectly viable and as I say, we have proved it. I only challenge you on this because I want to provide inspiration, encouragement and possible solutions to anyone like us with a very limited budget not to be put off having a go. The alternative is that old wooden boats become the sole preserve of very wealthy people and that would be a shame. Leo has done brilliantly, but he had all the right ingredients to make a very popular, well supported channel, we don’t, like most people, have the ingredients for that formula. Thankfully, there is more than one way to skin a cat (just realised that is not a very nice proverb) rather than try to fund big, we have gone for cost little (relatively speaking! :)
@@SailingWood There will always be someone telling you that you are doing it wrong, usually by someone with so little, or no experience. I was planning on documenting a rebuild on a Miller Fifer, but cant be arsed with the negative feedback from people sitting on their backsides not getting their own hands dirty, let alone the blood ,sweat and tears. More power to your elbow!
@@SailingWood So true. Wooden ships should not longer be dry docked than 3 or 4 days.