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Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Custom rivet press machine! - Wooden Boat Fastenings (EP79)
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EPISODE 79.
In this episode I start thinking about the plank fastenings for Tally Ho. Using copper rivets is the strongest and most authentic choice, but they are not...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - “TALLY HO’s first voyage?” - and other questions (EP64)
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EPISODE 64.
As I’m away from the boat for a while, this is a Q&A episode!
Will TALLY HO sail with a GPS? Where will her first (post-rebuild) voyage be? Will I be...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Stern / Cutting the Rabbet (EP60)
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EPISODE 60.
Rowan returns to give me a hand, and we finish shaping the keel with Adze and power-plane. Then we carve some shape into the Stern Assembly, roughing out the Stern-po...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Cutwater / More Timber!
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EPISODE 57.
In this episode, I cut the rest of the shape of the Cutwater into the Stem, using a chainsaw. Then I plane it smooth, and shape the transition to the square stem-head with a gri...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Intermediate Frames, a Storm, and a Christmas Tree! Support; Become a Patron;
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EPISODE 39.
This episode, we continue replacing frames, starting now on the intermediate frames in-between the station frames. Washington is hit by severe wind and power cu...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Losing a Finger / Framing Progress - Support; Become a Patron;
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EPISODE 38.
Well, I’ve done something very silly and cut the end of my finger. Why would I do that, you may ask?! Well, it was all going a little too well, so I thought it was time to add...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Installing Frames / Calculating Bevels. Support; Become a Patron;
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EPISODE 29.
This episode I install the first pair of Frames into Tally Ho, notching the Live Oak very slightly into the Purpleheart Keel timber. I also explain how I calculate and tran...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Assembling Frames with Treenails. Support; Become a Patron;
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This episode, I work with some volunteers to cut out more futtocks, and assemble the first pair of Frames using Southern Live Oak - to replace the old English Oak frames that Tally Ho was bui...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – From Lofting to Re-Framing / Removing Planks. Support; Become a Patron;
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This episode, I get some more help to remove a lot of Tally Ho’s hull planking. The volunteers grind and hammer copper rivets, while I finish lofting the intermediate frames insid...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – The Wreck and the Rescue. Support; Become a Patron;
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This episode, I investigate the part of Tally Ho’s history where she was almost wrecked on a remote Pacific Atoll, in 1968. Amazingly, I have been given photographs of Tally Ho high and dry on the reef,...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Restoring the Ship Saw. Support; Become a Patron;
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This episode, I take some measurements and consider the hogging of the hull of the 1910 yacht TALLY HO, and then use jacks to bend the whole boat back into shape, having removed some of the Iron Floors...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping and Fitting the Keel Timber. Support; Become a Patron;
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This episode, I work on turning an enormous lump of Purpleheart Timber into a new Keel for the historic sailing vessel, Tally Ho. I make a plywood pattern from the old keel, then plane the...
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Removing the Keel Timber / Bolting the Scarph. Support; Become a Patron;
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This episode, I drive the 3000 miles back to Tally Ho from South Georgia, where Steve Cross has been milling Live Oak for me. I bed and bolt the 6’ Scarph in the new keel timber, ...
I'm on a mission to rebuild a 1910 gaff cutter called Tally Ho. Having moved the boat up the pacific coast of the US, its time to build a huge shed over her. But I only have a week, and there's nobody around to help..........-If you'd like to support the Tally Ho project, please Subsc...
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