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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...
“TALLY HO’s first voyage?” – and other questions (EP64)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - “TALLY HO’s first voyage?” - and other questions (EP64) Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
WOODEN BOAT REBUILD – Shaping the Cutwater / More Timber! (EP57)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Cutwater / More Timber! Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
History of Tally Ho (RORC presentation / Ep.48(Pt1)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – History of Tally Ho (RORC presentation / EP48(Pt1). Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 48 (Pt1). This episode is a little different from usual – it is part of my recent presentation about the Tally Ho project at the Royal Ocean Racing Club in London. ...
Replacing more 108-year old Frames / Wooden Boatbuilding (Tally Ho EP39)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Intermediate Frames, a Storm, and a Christmas Tree! Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
Developing A Wooden Boat-building Team! –Tally Ho EP36
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Developing a Team! Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 36. This episode I welcome Francesca back to the workshop and introduce a couple of volunteers who are going to stay here for a while to learn some boatbuilding and help out with the project. But b...
Installing New Oak Frames into a 1910 Wooden Boat – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP29
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Installing Frames / Calculating Bevels. Support; Become a Patron; ------ 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...
From Lofting to Re-Framing / Removing Planks – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP27
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – From Lofting to Re-Framing / Removing Planks. Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
The Kindness of Strangers – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP26
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – The Kindness of Strangers. Support; Become a Patron; This episode, I have a number of interesting volunteers and visitors, who help me out with various aspects of the project – a welding machine, a sign for the shed, some much-needed modifications to the mas...
Lofting the Lines; Part 1 – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP24
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Lofting the Lines; Part 1. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I take some more measurements of Tally Ho’s current shape compared to her original lines, and make a big decision about how to go about bringing her back to a more authentic and elegan...
The Wreck and the Rescue – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP23
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – The Wreck and the Rescue. Support; Become a Patron; --- 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,...
Restoring a HUGE vintage Ship Saw / Bandsaw – Rebuilding TALLY HO EP22
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Restoring the Ship Saw. Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
Chainsawing & fitting huge new Keel Timber in a 1910 sailboat – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP21
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping and Fitting the Keel Timber. Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
Removing HUGE Keel Timber from 20ton historic yacht, ALONE! TALLY HO EP20
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Removing the Keel Timber / Bolting the Scarph. Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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, ...
Milling Live Oak in the Deep South – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP19
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Milling Live Oak timbers on Cross Sawmill’s massive homemade bandsaw, in the Deep South. Support; Become a Patron; THIS episode, I am in southern Georgia , and I work with Steve Cross of Cross Sawmill to mill and grade lots of Southern Live Oak (Quercus Virg...
Massive New Pilot Cutter Build / Ferry Planks – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP17
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Visiting Luke Powell’s latest Pilot Cutter / Planking a traditional wooden ferry boat. Support; Become a Patron; ----- THIS episode, I visit local boatbuilder Luke Powell and his team, who are building an enormous Pilot Cutter called Pellew, which is a cop...
Laminating timbers into an old yacht / Cornish Projects – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP16
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Working away in Cornwall, laminating with epoxy and visiting other projects Support; Become a Patron; --- This episode, I do some work on an old yacht in the Butler & Co shed; BANDOR, a 1938 Dallimore designed sloop. The Epoxy lamination goes well, des...
Cutting and Fitting a Keel Timber Scarph Joint – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP14.PART2.
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Cutting and Fitting the Keel Scarph in a massive piece of hardwood timber Support; Become a Patron; ----- THIS episode, I cut and fit the big hook scarph in the Purpleheart for Tally Ho’s Keel timber. It’s a very dense hard wood, so it takes me some time,...
Buying a New Keel Timber / Chainsaw Modification – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP14.PART1.
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Buying the biggest pieces of Purpleheart Timber I have ever seen! / Modifying a Chainsaw. Support; Become a Patron; ---THE SECOND PART OF THIS EPISODE WILL BE OUT JUST AS SOON AS I FINISH EDITING IT!--- THIS episode, I make my decision about Tally Ho’s Keel...
7. The Keel Timber & The Building Inspector – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP7
Support Tally Ho here; - I am on a crazy one-man mission to restore this historic classic sailing yacht, designed by Albert Strange in 1909. Tally Ho is a wooden gaff cutter, and is best-known for winning the Fastnet race in 1927. In this episode, I start uncovering Tally Ho's huge teak keel t...
The Rebuild Begins – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP6
Sampson Boat Co; Restoring Tally Ho ep6. The Rebuild Begins In this video I finally start actual work on the 1910 Albert Strange Gaff Cutter Tally Ho. Once I have cleared a bunch of timber out of the boat, I can begin removing the Garboards ( the lowest planks, next to the keel ). But they are stub...