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Custom rivet press machine! – Wooden Boat Fastenings (EP79)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Custom rivet press machine! - Wooden Boat Fastenings (EP79) Support; Become a Patron; ---- 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...
“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...
BOATBUILDING / Carving Sternpost / Cutting Rabbet (EP60)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Stern / Cutting the Rabbet (EP60) Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
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...
Leo’s Story (RORC/ TALLY HO EP48-Pt2)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Leo’s Story (RORC presentation / EP48(Pt2). Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 48 (Pt2). This week we continue with the 2nd part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club presentation. This part of the talk focuses more on my own story before I began working on ...
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...
REPLACING BOAT WINDOWS! | YACHT REBUILD WEEK 46
(Ep.55) The day has finally come... where there is no more cold fronts & crappy weather..... you guys know what this means right???? WINDOW TIME! We pretty much ripped out all our 20 year old, yellow, brittle acrylic and replaced it with brand spanking new ones.. Happy days aboard Lady Africa...
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...
Building Boat Frames using Traditional Tree-Nails – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP28
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Assembling Frames with Treenails. Support; Become a Patron; ----- 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...
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 2 – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP25
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Lofting the Lines; Part 2. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I continue lofting the lines of the 1910 Gaff Cutter, Tally Ho - enlarging them to life-size on the new 50’ lofting floor in the workshop. I get some help from a young Australian Shipw...
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...
The History of the Yacht Tally Ho / Pilot Cutters / Going South – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP18
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Tally Ho’s history, Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters, and a trip to a Live Oak Timber Mill. Support; Become a Patron; ----- THIS episode, I meet the Grandson of Mark Spinks, who Skippered Tally Ho in 1927 when she famously won the Fastnet Race, and continued t...
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...
Building a New, Traditional Boat in Cornwall – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP 15
Building a New, Traditional Boat in Cornwall (working away) – cutting floor timbers from English Oak. Support; Become a Patron; ----- In this episode, I travel to the UK to visit my family and do some work for a friend in his Boatyard, to save some funds to go towards Tally Ho. In Cornwall, I ...