Wonderfully inspiring collection of videos. I only came accross your project this week as I myself have been toying with the idea of building a wooden boat. My great grandfather was a boat builder in Ireland. Build row boats somewhat like The Shannon One Design which is a Morgan Giles clinker design. I live in Finland now, I work as a carpenter...I think all the stars are lining up
It just gets better and better. Great content, well filmed, excellent pace and good music. Just a joy to start the weekend with. Congratulations to both of you.
Love watching your work, the both of you are getting it done with all the pace to enjoy your self's. As far as comment about finish, "yeah get there when you can"😁👍.
Awesome video, blokes. I share the same sentiments on wooden boats. People ask why I opted for a free wooden boat that doesn't float anymore when I could have paid a couple thousand bucks, gotten a seaworthy plastic boat, and be sailing already.... A wooden boat makes no sense. Nope. Not to them, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me.
Hello blokes, thank you for oncemore a wonderful episode. So nice to see these raw boards transform in this wooden boat. A true piece of art and craftmanship. And from the onlookers point of view, it does make sense to build a wooden boat. Also nice to know you have already invested in the sequel. The restauration of Odette. Looking forward to it. Cheers Martin
These videos are a highlight for me. I’ve spent the better part of 3 years on and off renovating a Mirror dinghy in New Zealand. Any boat works on classic designs are just such great projects. The craft of woodworking is sadly declining, there are some young people involved in projects but fewer and fewer.
My view on varnish is use what you like!!!!!!!!!!!! After all It will be you that is sanding back. GRP is great you see ,a wash and all is good, but a tree provides much more glee with the beauty of it's wood. No deathly drilling of Mother Earth or Acres of refinery No stinking chimneys no constant flares for the growing of our tree, maybe just a little for the copper, tin and such No plastics needed for her sails when cotton makes no fuss And Hemp a mighty plant that grows your ropes and brings high hopes of winning silver cups. and mixed with tar will take you far payed in the seams and rigging. And the sound of water on our tree is soothing to the soul where the prattle of water on GRP is just so grievous like a gardener to a mole.. Well who are we to forsake a tree, whose purpose is so plain, when it falls to the ground there's no cause to frown, just rejoice and with one voice hail the spirit of that tree then take a cutting from it's branches and we will plant it back for thee.. Never been a poet and still don't know it.
Pity many of those who cut down trees these days don’t realise the parts of trees that could be salvaged and made available for crafts people like the base of stumps for knees. Yes you can join the Timbers as you have done, but the natural curve from a stump has real appeal in my opinion. Looking forward to the launch and restoration of Oddette.
Thanks so much for this series. You guys give me the nerve, as one old guy to others, to begin my own boat build, once I'm done moving into my new place. I really enjoy your videos.
Makes me all warm and fuzzy watching you blokes crack on in your woolies. Like I need that in Queensland Australia at the mo; what with 28c and 87% humidity @7:30 pm. But as a timber worker and boat fan love the series. Keep it up. 🙂
I have a wooden Tideway 12 from 1965. There is something special about wooden boats. They need constant tending, so when you see a lovely one, you know it has also been loved.
“…we’ll do what we’re gonna do anyway…”🤣 Quite right, it’s your boat! But as you’ve asked for comments - I’ve always preferred to oil the inside of my dinghies, purely to simplify maintenance. Looks ok (dull satin) and just needs topping up with another coat once per season, no sanding involved! Linseed is good for initial protection (perhaps mixed with a little paraffin to aid penetration) by doesn’t last long - I prefer Deks Olje D1, much more expensive but also more durable. Obviously varnish gives a lovely finish but maintaining it is a bear, especially in a clinker boat with ribs and lands all impeding sanding. Another option is to top off the D1 with Deks D2 which is a ‘soft’ varnish. I’ve not tried it in a dinghy (it’s on the spars of a larger boat) and it does scuff quite easily, but the advantage (claimed by Deks) is that it doesn’t need sanding before re-coating. Similar price to good marine varnish. Now, go and do what you’re gonna do anyway!👍 By the way - love the extra project!
Thanks for your thoughts. We wondered about using D1 on its own on the inside of the hull. Would you recommend that? I'd like to know your experience with that.
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 I’ve used D1 and been happy with it. It’s not particularly cheap, needs re-coating relatively frequently (I would say roughly every 6 months, unless you keep the boat covered) and doesn’t provide surface protection like a varnish does as it is simply a penetrating oil. But it does bring up the colour of the timber and most importantly of all it is very easy to apply and needs no sanding between coats! I would recommend you try it on some off-cuts first and see if it’ll work for you. Ultimately, of course, if you change your mind you can just varnish over it. I think so anyway, I’ve never tried! The D2 is quite soft and not really suitable for the inside of a clinker dinghy. Another product which I’ve learned of quite recently is International Woodskin. It is a modern varnish (albeit containing solids) which is quite low maintenance- International claim it doesn’t need sanding between coats or when it’s being re-coated. I don’t have any experience with it, but I’m trying it out on some spars. A wooden boatbuilder I know speaks highly of it. The important thing is to avoid having to sand back the interior of your clinker dinghy come maintenance time!
By all means go with the linseed oil. Buy a 5 ltr container raw linseed oil for horse feeding and apply a coat of this without thinner every two weeks or so over the summer. by the time you have 20 to 30 coats of oil on the boat it will be a thick film and look and feel similar to epoxy. this surface will never get ugly, you will never have to sand it for another coat of oil or even an linseed oil based paint in the future. using any synthetic varnish is asking for trouble and huge maintenance down the road as it will get micro cracks, water will sneak into those cracks an then you will have to sand it all down to bare wood again to fix it.
I really like this recommendation and think we will go for it on the inside of the hull. Think you will love this video from a Norwegian boat museum ruclips.net/video/E5nDOCDDwv8/видео.html
Regarding finish. I have used thinned linseed oil till it takes no more. Let it dry. Then begin thinned varnish ( old fashioned yacht varnish) several coats using less thinner till full varnish. A lot of work but it treats the wood and keeps out the water. It would be a shame to hide that lovely wood under paint though you could paint the bilge. Just one suggestion learned from experience. Very much enjoying the series. It takes me back. Thank you.
I think what you are doing with the linseed oil is the way to go no rushing letting it dry out well between coats , really like how the recycled timber came up great work chaps
I truly appreciate your remarks on the building of a traditional boat. Applies to so much of what I do. Had my daughter take a listen. She enjoyed what she called `your poetry `.
Love the snowy Scandinavian sequence. In North America a favorite finish is often a concoction called boat soup--- a mixture of linseed oil, turpentine, pine tar and sometimes Japan driers. Arguments ensue, of course, as to the correct ingredient proportions just like any other soup recipe. Thank you for another glimpse into your own process.
I used that mix on another boat and loved it. It got a bit sticky but I heard that it needs UV light to cure so I think I should have left the boat in the light for a day or two to harden it off.
On linseed oiling, it seems that You completely neglected to consider the importance of how Unicorn is in conjunction to the moon. This is a bad mistake that probably will affect absorbing. This might also have affected the anglebending problem with the nail drilling. To some extent this could have been compensated by jumping around the shed ounterclockwise on one leg. But it’s always hard to tell for sure with linseed oil….😂 Keep up the good work, looking forward to centerboard casing and laser stuff!👍👍👍
I have no idea if you already know the You Tube channel "The art of boat building" but your two channels are a great variation on a theme. Bob says if you build it, make it beautiful. Your motto ought to be if you make it, make it poetry.
Greetings from an old man in Panama who has spent a lifetime using what little time making a living left over to play around in boats of all kinds. Suffice to say that you are an inspiration that I don't seem to be able to match these days. Life's greatest reward is found in the satisfaction of creating something of grace and beauty. Not sure if what I admire most is the craftsmanship of the build, the skillful video production or the commentary but it comes together admirably to that end.
Delightful, as always. Don't you dare go finishing this thing. Linseed oil: one coat a day for a week, then one coat a week for a month, then .........go on, work it out for yourselves.....:)
Thanks for your efforts! I’ve been appreciating you both from the Alps. I’ve got me a simpler stitch and glue project trimaran kayak, I’ll be starting soon as I will need epoxy temperatures.
I love the way that our little videos are being swatched in so many varied locations. Would love to come and visit but rowing up the Alps may be a bit tough!
Another fabulous episode chaps, thank you. Really loved the 'It makes no sense......' poetic monolog and it strikes many chords - have just reached the fifth strakes on my project so am slipping further and further behind.....
My wife found an old dresser with a mirror and she sanded on it and put 7 or 8 coat of linseed oil (hand rubbed) on it. It was a labor of love, not unlike what you are doing.
Another wonderful video and so very calming. Wood is so attractive and yes it does make sense. My project is slightly smaller, a one tenth scale model of a Maurice Griffiths design the Waterwich. It's in very early stages, all computerised at the moment. Looking forward to the next installment and seeing more of Odette.
Thank you very much for documenting your build and musings. I would like to build a small boat but I doubt that it would be so complex- perhaps a stitch and glue punt to start with.
Loving how your boat is really coming together and I’m learning lots about how my Polly was made too My comment about the finish part from the oiled wood looking great already is that I really love Owetrol Deks Olje D1 for most of my boat as it penetrates superbly and the D2 more glossy oil finish for the shiny topside wood where appropriate It was on Polly when I got here in 2020 and it’s been so resilient to weather which she experiences being on the realer under a term (mostly) Looking forward to seeing you get things ready for loach in the Spring (I assume this spring 2024) Would love to hook up on the water/Estuary when you do launch if that’s your plan Keep up the brilliant work and excellent videos (you tube voice …love that too) Kev B
To oil or to varnish that is the question, dear Yorrick! whether tis Gloss or natural, Alas on this I have no opinion so carry on Gungadin forward into the firing cannons!
Wooden boats make no sense. I know, when we built a brand new log cabin as a hiking shelter, they said the same. PS: To seal the wood on our tools we keep an old wisdom: apply linseed oil every day for a week, then every Saturday for two months, then every last Saturday of every month for a year.
What a wonderful series of videos. Thank you so much for going to so much trouble to film your work. I have a Morgan Giles 11ft rowing dinghy that was built in 1936 and seeing how you are building your boat gives me a much better understanding of all the detail on my boat.
Of all the great skills shown in these videos, the one I lack is patience. I have to wonder if building a boat would teach me patience or lacking patience, I would make a mess of it. I think I'll carry on watching with a cup of tea and see if it rubs off on me.
Always a joy to watch you lads! Those misty views of the Exe I found very evocative of days long since passed. Time and distance makes memory fade, especially with the weather we`ve had down here since christmas. Mid to high thirties mostly with several periods up to 45c. With the linseed, I started off 50% and increased the oil with each coat till it was allmost neaters with the final coats. Final rub with beeswax is also good for the finish. Thanks again, fair winds xx
I found your channel yesterday and watched all 8 episodes in one hit 😅 I absolutely loved it and I'm looking forward to what you guys do next. It's right up my street 😊 thanks 👍
By far my favorite series to watch. Another great episode. I am currently building a wooden airplane in Arizona from a 90 year old design, and often question my decision making too. But in the end I will have turned a douglas fir into something flying.
Linseed oil as much as possible, in my book. I spent years looking for a washboard. I finally found one and within a week two more fell into my lap. Looks like the same thing applies to boats.
brilliant work and love the commentary. I've just finished a lapstrake 14ft dinghy but nothing compares to your classic clinker and rivet method. Can't wait to see what you do with Odette. thanks very much
Good onya chaps and thanks for taking the effort with the filming & editing. I have no opinion on anything finnish other than that they seem like lovely folk.
Great pleasure to watch. I just wonder what is the name of wrecked ship you took timber from. Boat of Theseus variation is looming here. Those who came before, would they be happy to know that their wood lives within a new boat?
How were those knees joined? Double tenon/domino? Don't get why people dislike dominoes so much. I don't like just linseed oil that much, turns black and bacteria and fungus love the stuff;
JUst painting the top of the floor boards with linseed seems a little too little.. where does the water go when it rains... it follows the skin and hangs on the bottom of the plank
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 I know, right! Being a bit on the spectrum, I keep visualising crap like that and it keeps me busy forever... (currently building a small PM-38 boat.)
I have just completed a short course at the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy where many of the techniques and skills you demonstrate so well we're shown to us. The course was an eye-opener and your series is a fantastic series covering the detai. Of what we really only had time to touch on. So glad I discovered your channel. Keep up the great work.
I also did that course and absolutely love that place. We are hoping to do a visit in a couple of episodes time. I think our viewers would love to see the BBA, don't you?
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Thank you guys, I’m in Denmark feeling homesick and your videos brighten my days! Great work on that lovely boat.
Great to hear! There's a new video out on Saturday. Men det er mange båter i Danmark. Har du besøkt Vikingskipsmuseet i Roskilde?
Wonderfully inspiring collection of videos. I only came accross your project this week as I myself have been toying with the idea of building a wooden boat. My great grandfather was a boat builder in Ireland. Build row boats somewhat like The Shannon One Design which is a Morgan Giles clinker design. I live in Finland now, I work as a carpenter...I think all the stars are lining up
It just gets better and better. Great content, well filmed, excellent pace and good music. Just a joy to start the weekend with. Congratulations to both of you.
Thanks so much.
Love watching your work, the both of you are getting it done with all the pace to enjoy your self's. As far as comment about finish, "yeah get there when you can"😁👍.
Awesome video, blokes. I share the same sentiments on wooden boats. People ask why I opted for a free wooden boat that doesn't float anymore when I could have paid a couple thousand bucks, gotten a seaworthy plastic boat, and be sailing already.... A wooden boat makes no sense. Nope. Not to them, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me.
Agreed!
Hello blokes, thank you for oncemore a wonderful episode. So nice to see these raw boards transform in this wooden boat. A true piece of art and craftmanship.
And from the onlookers point of view, it does make sense to build a wooden boat. Also nice to know you have already invested in the sequel. The restauration of Odette.
Looking forward to it. Cheers Martin
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I love poet, boat builders. Thank you so much!
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These videos are a highlight for me. I’ve spent the better part of 3 years on and off renovating a Mirror dinghy in New Zealand. Any boat works on classic designs are just such great projects. The craft of woodworking is sadly declining, there are some young people involved in projects but fewer and fewer.
Yes, it's really important to keep it alive, isn't it?
My view on varnish is use what you like!!!!!!!!!!!! After all It will be you that is sanding back. GRP is great you see ,a wash and all is good, but a tree provides much more glee with the beauty of it's wood. No deathly drilling of Mother Earth or Acres of refinery No stinking chimneys no constant flares for the growing of our tree, maybe just a little for the copper, tin and such No plastics needed for her sails when cotton makes no fuss And Hemp a mighty plant that grows your ropes and brings high hopes of winning silver cups. and mixed with tar will take you far payed in the seams and rigging. And the sound of water on our tree is soothing to the soul where the prattle of water on GRP is just so grievous like a gardener to a mole.. Well who are we to forsake a tree, whose purpose is so plain, when it falls to the ground there's no cause to frown, just rejoice and with one voice hail the spirit of that tree then take a cutting from it's branches and we will plant it back for thee.. Never been a poet and still don't know it.
love it!
Pity many of those who cut down trees these days don’t realise the parts of trees that could be salvaged and made available for crafts people like the base of stumps for knees. Yes you can join the Timbers as you have done, but the natural curve from a stump has real appeal in my opinion. Looking forward to the launch and restoration of Oddette.
I agree
Somehow I always end up feeling peaceful when I finish one of these videos. Thank you!
The patience and humor of this two wooden boat artists/craftsmen are something to.behold. The best show on You Tube.
That's a really lovely thing to hear. Thank you.
Good job incorporating the wreck salvaged wood into the new boat. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, glad you appreciated it.
Thanks so much for this series. You guys give me the nerve, as one old guy to others, to begin my own boat build, once I'm done moving into my new place. I really enjoy your videos.
You can do it!
Wooden boats make no sense, but making one makes absolute sense…..love the video keep up the good work
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Makes me all warm and fuzzy watching you blokes crack on in your woolies. Like I need that in Queensland Australia at the mo; what with 28c and 87% humidity @7:30 pm. But as a timber worker and boat fan love the series. Keep it up. 🙂
Thanks glad your enjoying the series.
I have a wooden Tideway 12 from 1965.
There is something special about wooden boats.
They need constant tending, so when you see a lovely one, you know it has also been loved.
That sounds like a lovely boat. Is it clinker?
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 yes, clinker. Mahogany on oak.
“…we’ll do what we’re gonna do anyway…”🤣 Quite right, it’s your boat! But as you’ve asked for comments - I’ve always preferred to oil the inside of my dinghies, purely to simplify maintenance. Looks ok (dull satin) and just needs topping up with another coat once per season, no sanding involved! Linseed is good for initial protection (perhaps mixed with a little paraffin to aid penetration) by doesn’t last long - I prefer Deks Olje D1, much more expensive but also more durable. Obviously varnish gives a lovely finish but maintaining it is a bear, especially in a clinker boat with ribs and lands all impeding sanding. Another option is to top off the D1 with Deks D2 which is a ‘soft’ varnish. I’ve not tried it in a dinghy (it’s on the spars of a larger boat) and it does scuff quite easily, but the advantage (claimed by Deks) is that it doesn’t need sanding before re-coating. Similar price to good marine varnish. Now, go and do what you’re gonna do anyway!👍 By the way - love the extra project!
Thanks for your thoughts. We wondered about using D1 on its own on the inside of the hull. Would you recommend that? I'd like to know your experience with that.
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 I’ve used D1 and been happy with it. It’s not particularly cheap, needs re-coating relatively frequently (I would say roughly every 6 months, unless you keep the boat covered) and doesn’t provide surface protection like a varnish does as it is simply a penetrating oil. But it does bring up the colour of the timber and most importantly of all it is very easy to apply and needs no sanding between coats! I would recommend you try it on some off-cuts first and see if it’ll work for you. Ultimately, of course, if you change your mind you can just varnish over it. I think so anyway, I’ve never tried! The D2 is quite soft and not really suitable for the inside of a clinker dinghy. Another product which I’ve learned of quite recently is International Woodskin. It is a modern varnish (albeit containing solids) which is quite low maintenance- International claim it doesn’t need sanding between coats or when it’s being re-coated. I don’t have any experience with it, but I’m trying it out on some spars. A wooden boatbuilder I know speaks highly of it. The important thing is to avoid having to sand back the interior of your clinker dinghy come maintenance time!
By all means go with the linseed oil. Buy a 5 ltr container raw linseed oil for horse feeding and apply a coat of this without thinner every two weeks or so over the summer. by the time you have 20 to 30 coats of oil on the boat it will be a thick film and look and feel similar to epoxy. this surface will never get ugly, you will never have to sand it for another coat of oil or even an linseed oil based paint in the future. using any synthetic varnish is asking for trouble and huge maintenance down the road as it will get micro cracks, water will sneak into those cracks an then you will have to sand it all down to bare wood again to fix it.
I really like this recommendation and think we will go for it on the inside of the hull. Think you will love this video from a Norwegian boat museum ruclips.net/video/E5nDOCDDwv8/видео.html
Regarding finish. I have used thinned linseed oil till it takes no more. Let it dry. Then begin thinned varnish ( old fashioned yacht varnish) several coats using less thinner till full varnish. A lot of work but it treats the wood and keeps out the water. It would be a shame to hide that lovely wood under paint though you could paint the bilge. Just one suggestion learned from experience. Very much enjoying the series. It takes me back. Thank you.
Great tip!
I would love to see an episode showing and explaining your tools. Especially the more traditional hand tools.
Thanks for the idea. We'll try and do something about this.
I think what you are doing with the linseed oil is the way to go no rushing letting it dry out well between coats , really like how the recycled timber came up great work chaps
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I truly appreciate your remarks on the building of a traditional boat. Applies to so much of what I do. Had my daughter take a listen. She enjoyed what she called `your poetry `.
That's great to hear. Thanks.
Love the snowy Scandinavian sequence. In North America a favorite finish is often a concoction called boat soup--- a mixture of linseed oil, turpentine, pine tar and sometimes Japan driers. Arguments ensue, of course, as to the correct ingredient proportions just like any other soup recipe. Thank you for another glimpse into your own process.
I used that mix on another boat and loved it. It got a bit sticky but I heard that it needs UV light to cure so I think I should have left the boat in the light for a day or two to harden it off.
More Japan Driers, perhaps?
On linseed oiling, it seems that You completely neglected to consider the importance of how Unicorn is in conjunction to the moon. This is a bad mistake that probably will affect absorbing. This might also have affected the anglebending problem with the nail drilling. To some extent this could have been compensated by jumping around the shed ounterclockwise on one leg. But it’s always hard to tell for sure with linseed oil….😂
Keep up the good work, looking forward to centerboard casing and laser stuff!👍👍👍
This is definitely a very sound theory.
Well done gentlemen. You seem to work at the same steady and mindful pace as I do in my shop.
Not always but we try!
I am enjoy your boat build. Thank you.
Thanks.
Great work Really enjoyed your video. I will pass it on to my friend who just refinished his wooden fishing boat in northern Wisconsin.
Please do!
another dose of sanity!
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I have no idea if you already know the You Tube channel "The art of boat building" but your two channels are a great variation on a theme. Bob says if you build it, make it beautiful. Your motto ought to be if you make it, make it poetry.
Bob's channel is a wonderful channel with very good explanation and lots of careful detail. Thanks for the comparison.
Love it. Seeing ODETTE was amazing. And your project is coming along nicely 😊. I very much agree, a wooden boat makes no sense at all 😊😊😊
Odette is going to be a special boat.
Another excellent video.
Love your thoughts,poem about the wooden boat.
Thanks for your comment.
Greetings from an old man in Panama who has spent a lifetime using what little time making a living left over to play around in boats of all kinds. Suffice to say that you are an inspiration that I don't seem to be able to match these days. Life's greatest reward is found in the satisfaction of creating something of grace and beauty. Not sure if what I admire most is the craftsmanship of the build, the skillful video production or the commentary but it comes together admirably to that end.
That's a very kind comment. Thanks.
Delightful, as always. Don't you dare go finishing this thing.
Linseed oil: one coat a day for a week, then one coat a week for a month, then .........go on, work it out for yourselves.....:)
It's getting close to finish
A wooden boat has a soul.
Absolutely.
Thanks for your efforts! I’ve been appreciating you both from the Alps. I’ve got me a simpler stitch and glue project trimaran kayak, I’ll be starting soon as I will need epoxy temperatures.
I love the way that our little videos are being swatched in so many varied locations. Would love to come and visit but rowing up the Alps may be a bit tough!
Loving the reclaimed timber
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Another fabulous episode chaps, thank you. Really loved the 'It makes no sense......' poetic monolog and it strikes many chords - have just reached the fifth strakes on my project so am slipping further and further behind.....
Good luck with your project. Don't forget we are in film time not real time!
My wife found an old dresser with a mirror and she sanded on it and put 7 or 8 coat of linseed oil (hand rubbed) on it. It was a labor of love, not unlike what you are doing.
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Another great video - thank you gents!
Glad you enjoyed it
Another wonderful video and so very calming. Wood is so attractive and yes it does make sense. My project is slightly smaller, a one tenth scale model of a Maurice Griffiths design the Waterwich. It's in very early stages, all computerised at the moment. Looking forward to the next installment and seeing more of Odette.
Sounds like a great project. Look forward to hearing more.
Thank you .. very educational 👍
So nice of you
If there is ever a project and that old saying comes to mind, patience is a virtue on an excellent build.😊
Dank u vel
Thank you very much for documenting your build and musings. I would like to build a small boat but I doubt that it would be so complex- perhaps a stitch and glue punt to start with.
Go for it.
Loving how your boat is really coming together and I’m learning lots about how my Polly was made too
My comment about the finish part from the oiled wood looking great already is that I really love Owetrol Deks Olje D1 for most of my boat as it penetrates superbly and the D2 more glossy oil finish for the shiny topside wood where appropriate
It was on Polly when I got here in 2020 and it’s been so resilient to weather which she experiences being on the realer under a term (mostly)
Looking forward to seeing you get things ready for loach in the Spring (I assume this spring 2024)
Would love to hook up on the water/Estuary when you do launch if that’s your plan
Keep up the brilliant work and excellent videos (you tube voice …love that too)
Kev B
Thanks for your comment. Did you find a problem with water ingress under the Deksolje 2?
I just wanted to comment on the finish and use of linseed oil. I have no opinion on this. Thank you.
Great point!
To oil or to varnish that is the question, dear Yorrick! whether tis Gloss or natural, Alas on this I have no opinion so carry on Gungadin forward into the firing cannons!
Agreed but should we be taking arms against a sea of troubles?
Omg the gratuitous poetic philosophy is over the top. And I love it. Wonderful sentiment and fantastic workmanship.
Yep it is a bit over the top isn't it?
Wooden boats make no sense. I know, when we built a brand new log cabin as a hiking shelter, they said the same.
PS: To seal the wood on our tools we keep an old wisdom: apply linseed oil every day for a week, then every Saturday for two months, then every last Saturday of every month for a year.
I love that!! Thanks.
Thanks guys. I enjoyed your excellent video. Now I need to get out to my garage to restore my 1962 Enterprise. 👍
Go for it!
What a wonderful series of videos. Thank you so much for going to so much trouble to film your work. I have a Morgan Giles 11ft rowing dinghy that was built in 1936 and seeing how you are building your boat gives me a much better understanding of all the detail on my boat.
Wow, that sounds amazing. Would love to see a photo.
I have emailed some photos to you and guess they could land in your junk folder.
Great job and love your content ❤
Thank you so much!
My view into varnish and linseed oil is quite literally "whatever floats your boat". Loving your videos
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magnifique travail de restauration ! bravo !
Merci beaucoup!
Love your work
Thank you!
Of all the great skills shown in these videos, the one I lack is patience. I have to wonder if building a boat would teach me patience or lacking patience, I would make a mess of it. I think I'll carry on watching with a cup of tea and see if it rubs off on me.
Give it a go.
What a great job. Very inspirational.
Thanks so much!
Wonderful!
Thanks.
Thanks Blokes. Loving every minute of it. Gives me inspiration to go and knock about with some wood 😀
Go for it!
Simply beautiful as always, brings a smile to my face.
Thanks
I do so enjoy watching you both building your boat so relaxing and calm
That's great to hear. Thanks
Love your work. Re finishes, I once asked a well known small boat designer what he thought was the best bright finish. His response was paint.
Now the controversy has started!
Thanks blokes.
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Love the videos, am really enjoying them, from Wexford, Ireland
Conor wants to build a curragh!
Always a joy to watch you lads! Those misty views of the Exe I found very evocative of days long since passed. Time and distance makes memory fade, especially with the weather we`ve had down here since christmas. Mid to high thirties mostly with several periods up to 45c.
With the linseed, I started off 50% and increased the oil with each coat till it was allmost neaters with the final coats. Final rub with beeswax is also good for the finish.
Thanks again, fair winds xx
I like the beeswax idea.Thanks.
It all makes sense to me. Thank you for more fine film making, it's definitely worth it.
Thanks
Lovely program as usual Jon. Commentary excellent, you make it so calm and enjoyable. Well done!
Thanks Steve, really glad you're enjoying it. look forward to seeing that curragh one day!
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nice to see people still bother with these kinda boats. they are so nice.
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I found your channel yesterday and watched all 8 episodes in one hit 😅 I absolutely loved it and I'm looking forward to what you guys do next. It's right up my street 😊 thanks 👍
Welcome aboard! Really so nice to hear you enjoyed it.
This is all just a pleasure to watch. If you keep on doing it like this I will be tempted to start my own build.
Go for it!
Beautiful poetry… I love it! Didn’t I mention myself lately, that building a boat doesn’t add up? 😊
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By far my favorite series to watch. Another great episode. I am currently building a wooden airplane in Arizona from a 90 year old design, and often question my decision making too. But in the end I will have turned a douglas fir into something flying.
Can't wait to see that project - sounds amazing.
Linseed oil as much as possible, in my book. I spent years looking for a washboard. I finally found one and within a week two more fell into my lap. Looks like the same thing applies to boats.
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brilliant work and love the commentary. I've just finished a lapstrake 14ft dinghy but nothing compares to your classic clinker and rivet method. Can't wait to see what you do with Odette. thanks very much
Sounds like a marvellous project.
I saw that drill pointing a bit up, but you couldn't from your angle. I tried to say something but it was too late. Nice looking seat!
Can you shout a bit louder next time please!?
Good onya chaps and thanks for taking the effort with the filming & editing. I have no opinion on anything finnish other than that they seem like lovely folk.
Kiitos
A wooden boat is a she, she has a soul and carries the love of the hands that gave her life.
Agreed.
Great pleasure to watch.
I just wonder what is the name of wrecked ship you took timber from. Boat of Theseus variation is looming here. Those who came before, would they be happy to know that their wood lives within a new boat?
Nice idea!
Yes, I have a view about finish, but I will keep it to myself.
So, there! gary in Japan
Ahh go on!!
Gonewith the Wynn
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Coming along nicely. No pine tar & turps in your oiling?
There's been debate about that.
How were those knees joined? Double tenon/domino? Don't get why people dislike dominoes so much. I don't like just linseed oil that much, turns black and bacteria and fungus love the stuff;
It's just a glued half joint, it would be good to find some grown crooks. I need to start building up a store of them.
Are you going to oil the under side of the sole boards? I would
Yes, they can be lifted out and will be done in the same way.
JUst painting the top of the floor boards with linseed seems a little too little.. where does the water go when it rains... it follows the skin and hangs on the bottom of the plank
Thanks for your thoughts. It's a difficult balance, isn't it?
@@jonsealwoodturning4673 I know, right! Being a bit on the spectrum, I keep visualising crap like that and it keeps me busy forever... (currently building a small PM-38 boat.)
7:40 what is that face mask with the overhead filter ?
It's an Evolution from Axminster. THey're expensive but cheaper than a new pair of lungs.
I have just completed a short course at the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy where many of the techniques and skills you demonstrate so well we're shown to us. The course was an eye-opener and your series is a fantastic series covering the detai. Of what we really only had time to touch on. So glad I discovered your channel. Keep up the great work.
I also did that course and absolutely love that place. We are hoping to do a visit in a couple of episodes time. I think our viewers would love to see the BBA, don't you?
I think Will would welcome you with open arms..great idea
Wistful…..a term not heard much lately, and that’s too bad.
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