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Fairing the Mizzen Mast – Episode 157 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
There is a lot of work going into restoring Victoria's old mast to be our mizzen mast. We already set up a sort of lathe and jig to cut kerfs into the mast so that we can then bring it down to a six inch diameter. To do that, I used a combination of a power planer and a hand plane to get down...
Finishing Casting & Floors / Plank Stock ( TALLY HO EP83)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Finishing Casting & Floors / Plank Stock (EP83) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 83. We have finished casting! In this episode, the final lodging knee is cast by Daniel - his first time pouring the molten bronze, and not without a little bit of f...
Pouring Bronze / Fastening Floors – Wooden Boat Rebuild (EP81)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Pouring Bronze / Fastening Floors (EP81) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 81. Having poured all the smaller bronze Floors, we have to build a bigger flask in order to cast the largest ones. Packing these big moulds isn’t without it’s setbacks, and we ...
Boatbuilding – Lining-out for Planking (EP78)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Lining-out for Planking (EP78) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 78. In this episode we calculate the locations and sizes of all the hull planks, based on the complex shape of the hull. I’ve never done this before, so we get some help from the Lead Sh...
BoatBuilding – Finishing the Transom (EP76)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Finishing the Transom / More Floors (EP76) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 76. In this episode I focus on the final install of the transom, using a couple of old tricks to ensure that it stays watertight. The planks get bolted to the sternpost and ev...
BoatBuilding – Casting Bronze Floors (EP75)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Casting Bronze Floors (EP75) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 75. In this extra-length episode, Pete and Clark show the process of making individual patterns for each of the floors, laminating thin strips of ply into the boat and then shaping and scul...
BoatBuilding – Restoring the Transom (EP74)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Restoring the Transom (EP74) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 74. In this episode I work on repairing and reinstalling Tally Ho’s original transom timbers. Being Teak, they have escaped rot, but have a lot of damaged areas and holes that need to be fi...
BoatBuilding – Finishing the Deck Structure! (EP73)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Finishing the Deck Structure! (EP73) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 73. This is the day - the big reveal! With the deck structure fastened permanently into the Beam Shelf, we can remove the temporary cross-palls and finally see Tally Ho’s internal s...
BoatBuilding – Bilge Stringers / Oak problems! (EP72)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Bilge Stringers / Oak problems! (EP72) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 72. In this episode we face a major dilemma - having found that one of the White Oak logs had porous grain (bad news!) I have to make the painful decision of whether or not to re...
BoatBuilding – Building the Deck Structure! (EP71)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Building the Deck Structure (EP71) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 71. In this episode we finish building the majority of the deck structure! Lots of dovetails are cut, and the deck layout emerges as we add carlins and half beams one by one. We als...
BoatBuilding – Fitting Deck Beams! (Tally Ho EP70)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Fitting Deck Beams! (EP70) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 70. It’s time to start building the Deck Structure! Firstly I take a look at the old Beam Shelves and analyse the 110 year-old joinery of the original boatbuilders. I decide to replicate the...
BoatBuilding – Installing Beamshelves / BIG plans! (EP67)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Installing Beamshelves / BIG plans! (EP67) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 67. In this episode, I finish planing the beamshelves, move them into the boat, and start the process of bending them around the inside of the frames - creating some big load...
East Coast Oak and a Pink Fireman (EP66)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - East Coast Oak and a Pink Fireman (EP66) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 66. Back to work on Tally Ho! After returning to the West Coast, I start by planing and bolting the beam shelf scarps joints. In the process, I buy a vintage pipe threading mach...
The Pilot Cutter PELLEW (EP65)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - The Pilot Cutter PELLEW (EP65) Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 65. In this episode, I return to Cornwall to catch up with Luke Powell and his team, who are getting ready to launch the replica Pilot Cutter PELLEW. Luke talks about how this project c...
Boatbuilding – Making Beam Shelves (Tally Ho EP62)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Making Beam Shelves / Sheer Clamps (EP62) Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 62. In this episode I start by adjusting the position of some of the frames, and fairing them all on the inside. Then I cut and fit the scarph joins on the big 6-1/2” x 3...
Installing the Fashion Pieces (Rebuilding Tally Ho EP61)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Installing the Fashion Pieces (EP61) Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 61. In this episode we install the Fashion Pieces, which will form the connection between the hull planking and the transom. We have to cut the heels, drill and chisel the no...
Shaping the Keel / Adze work (EP59)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Keel / Adze work (EP59) Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 59. In this episode, after roughing-out the starboard side Rabbet into the Stem, I make a jig to transfer the measurements for the shape of the Keel Timber from the lofting floor to...
Ship of Theseus / Project Recap! (EP58)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Ship of Theseus / Project Recap Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 58. In this episode, I ask the question “is Tally Ho still the same boat?” ...I explore the ancient philosophical question of The Ship of Theseus, and how that problem applies to this p...
Roughing-out the Stem / Timber Decisions (Tally Ho Ep 56)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Roughing-out the Stem / Timber Decisions Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 56. After the busyness of the Frame-raising, it’s just me and the boat again for a while. I have some tough decisions to make as I look into ordering the timber for the deck-st...
Finished Framing! / Planking Timber (TALLY HO EP55)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Finished Framing! / Planking Timber Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 55. Tally Ho is fully re-framed! In this episode we see the final part of the frame-raising party, as we make and install the last of the frames that make up the bow of the boat. We...
The Life of a Futtock! Reframing 1910 yacht (Tally HO EP54)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – The Life of a Futtock / EP54. Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 54. In this episode we follow the life of a single Futtock, from being marked on a template to being installed as a finished frame. Frame-raising 2.0 is going well, with more than half of...
Replacing the bow on a vintage wooden boat / Rebuilding Tally Ho EP52
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Installing the Bow Assembly / EP52. Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 52. A worrying thunder-shake in the new stem means I have to make and install a large graving piece. After making some wedges and cutting notches in the scarph joints, we assemble ...
Assembling the Bow Timbers! (TALLY HO 51)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Assembling the bow timbers / EP51. Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 51. In this episode we finally dry fit the purpleheart bow assembly timbers. In other news, we come up with a short-term solution to a damaged Babbitt bearing in the Ship-saw, and w...