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Salt & Tar: Episode 97-Power to the Versatile Sailor
Rigger, Electrician, Painter, or Plumber sometimes all 4 at once. We complete almost everything on the list for the mizzen mast until we get a late-season shower. If you're going to build a boat you better be tough and learn to adapt. We move inside the bo...
Salt & Tar: Episode 90-Turning Dead Eyes
Keeping to our salty vision we turn up our dead eyes. We are a gaff rig ketch so we couldn't very well have turnbuckles, we NEED dead eyes. This video spans over a year and two different cameras so, apologies, the sound was difficult to get right on the ep...
Salt & Tar: Episode 89-Who’s Charlie
"I got a plan, I have a plan," said Charlie, and 24 years later he proved it. For obvious reasons, we love hearing from those who have actually built a boat from the ground up. I wanted to share Charlie's story because it so closely mirrors our own. No mat...
Salt & Tar: Episode 85-Four Shrouds, Four Days (Part 2)
-Yup! Days 3 and 4 were much quicker. We managed to also take a day off and enjoy a sundowner dinghy ride. A few discoveries of what you can find in the Napa River occur and we are days away from being able to step the mast. One more episode to go before t...
Salt & Tar: Episode 83-MAST COLLAR w/Rolf!
Two major things before the main mast goes up: build the mast collar for the stays and make the shrouds. When we step the mast we'll need some temporary lines to hold it up. We'll hang several blocks from the mast collar to do this. Rolf is kind enough to ...
Living With The Tide – Live #11
Join us Live as we chat a little about our adventure so far, let you in on our plans for the future and give you guys the chance to ask anything you want! :) Thanks for watching our crazy videos :D If you would like to keep up to date with us then you can...
Salt & Tar: Episode 54-Finishing Our Main Mast
The mast project took just about 2 weeks to complete. We wanted to move quickly as renting the space was adding up daily. We get the mast rounded and add the hounds which are where our shrouds are attached. We've got about a month before we are hoping to h...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 67: Q and A Before Planking
We are launching into planking soon but before we get into all that, we really wanted to do a little house cleaning video. We get so many questions about the project and it's not always easy to address them all in the subsequent videos. So, right now see...
Salt & Tar: Episode 53-Building Our Main Mast
Last episode we laminated up a new main mast. We continue shaping the mast to fit the mast step and getting it closer to round. Long but great days working outside in the Napa Boatyard! Thanks for watching everyone! Many thanks and much love, Ruthie http...
The boat tour of LOVE with Captain Blackie, and Patti
Video tour, and discussions with Captain Blackie aboard his yacht LOVE. Blackie created LOVE from mostly scrap metal over a period of 8 years, and he has sailed her around the Pacific for the past 24 years. He captured a Mermaid in the process. How many...
Salt & Tar: Episode 52-From Bulwarks to Mast
We've finished up with the port side bulwark planking and now to turn our attention to Rediviva's masts... Unfortunately with all the distraction of building the boat our masts we're not taken care of. Our mizzen developed a kink at one end so now our orig...
The largest new wooden boat in the country! – Replica Pilot Cutter PELLEW Update (Tally Ho EP32)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – An update on the replica Pilot Cutter Pellew. Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; http://www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco ----- EPISODE 32. This episode I visit the massively impressive ne...
Handling a Gaff Rig
I've received lots of questions about handling a gaff rig, enough to make a separate video on the subject. This video turned out to be much harder to make than I thought, between the awkward camera angles and trying to explain what I'm doing at the same ...
Salt & Tar Episode 31 – Part 1: Cabin Re-Remodel
Cabin re-remodel! Big changes as we get back in touch with the dream that persuaded us to take on this project! https://saltandtar.org/ https://www.patreon.com/saltandtar https://www.gofundme.com/saltandtar