I'm sorry I've been quiet this last week... I've had some challenging decisions and revelations to do with how I'm going to re-frame the boat and retain the original hull-shape. The long and short of it is... it has to get worse before it can get better! So I've been removing planks on the port side. The next video with a full explanation should be out on Saturday.
This episode, I take some measurements and consider the hogging of the hull of TALLY HO, and then use jacks to bend the whole boat back into shape, having removed some of the Iron Floors first. I borrow a forklift, and then start the process of moving and restoring a massive vintage ship-saw – which is like a huge bandsaw but with a static table and a rotating cutting band. This impressive tool could be over 100 years old - perhaps even older than TALLY HO herself!
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2018-05-19 16:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Just bought this magnificent antique ship-saw out of retirement... !
It’s total overkill for this project but it was a great price and I couldn’t resist restoring and working such a beautiful piece of machinery, possibly as old or older than the boat ..It deserves to be used.. Nearly got it running again now.
2018-05-15 17:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
SV Seeker have very kindly been making these "challenge coins" to help raise funds for various YouTube boatbuilding channels! There are a limited number of these coins for sale ($20) on their page linked below, and several coins from other channels as well. Thank you SV Seeker!
http://www.svseeker.com/wp/product/tally-ho-challenge-coin/
2018-05-13 18:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode, I work on turning the enormous lump of Purpleheart Timber into a new Keel for Tally Ho. I make a plywood pattern from the old keel, then plane the surfaces of the new wood, before using a custom chainsaw jig to cut the rolling bevels. Poncho the parrot watches as we manoeuvre the heavy timber underneath the precariously balanced 20-ton boat, using jacks, rollers and levers. Finally – fresh timber in the boat!
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2018-05-05 17:45:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, I know it's a bit arty-farty - but a pretty unusual perspective of Tally Ho's underside, minus Keel Timber.
2018-04-26 15:40:24 +0000 UTC View Post
A cheesy pose with my new Chainsaw Jig, with an adjustable tilt control for cutting rolling bevels. With a ripping chain on, it's making light work of 12" of Purpleheart. And Pancho likes it too.
2018-04-25 20:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 together, and the Live Oak arrives by flatbed. Then we create a framework inside to boat to spread the load of the props while I remove the Keel Timber from underneath it, all the while hoping that nothing breaks and that the boat doesn’t deform at all in shape.
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2018-04-21 18:35:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Virginiana) for Tally Ho’s framing stock – one of the most historically important and best-regarded shipbuilding timbers in the world, which is no longer often milled commercially due to its extreme toughness.
Steve mills the timber on his amazing and enormous homemade bandsaw, which is constructed from 5 forklifts, 9 semi trailers, and “god knows wha...
2018-04-08 17:12:16 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS episode, I meet the Grandson of Mark Spinks, who Skippered Tally Ho in 1927 when she famously won the Fastnet Race, and continued to run the boat while she was under the ownership of Lord Stalbridge. We take a look at the rest of Tally Ho’s history, and then I travel to Bristol to meet John R-B, who builds replica Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters in the Underfall Yard, and who first took me on as an apprentice when I first started doing wooden boat work. He tells us a little a...
2018-03-24 17:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS episode, I visit local boatbuilder Luke Powell and his team, who are building an enormous Pilot Cutter called Pellew, which is a copy of the Vincent, originally built in 1852. Then I head back to Butler & Co’s yard in Penpol, and explain how I fit a shutter plank into the hull of the new traditionally built Ferry that is being constructed there.
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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, despite the cold. The new Ferry build progresses, and I visit some friends who are rebuilding an old fishing boat to start a business with. We also meet a likely candidate for the youngest boatbuilder in Cornwall!
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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 cut Floor Timbers out of English Oak, to put into a new-build foot-passenger Ferry. The really interesting thing about this Ferry is that it is a real working boat - it is designed to load passengers by driving right up onto the beach (where there is a waiting tractor with some kind of gangplank). The ferry company tried using St...
2018-02-10 18:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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, and lots of tool sharpening, to get the faces nice and clear, fitting well. Moving these timbers around is a real challenge because of their weight (the larger one is about 1.5 tons), but is possible with lots of levers, jacks and rollers, and is just the kind of work I enjoy.
2018-01-27 19:56:05 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS episode, I make my decision about Tally Ho’s Keel Timber, and head off in search of some suitable timber. Once I’ve got hold of the Purpleheart, we have to figure out a way to move it! I talk about Scarph Joints and have to modify a chainsaw to do the job.
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2018-01-20 13:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, a load of friends help me remove the stringers, breast hooks, and other parts of the hull. We have a white Christmas in Sequim, and I have to make a very difficult decision regarding Tally Ho’s Keel Timber.
What do you think I should do?
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I get attacked by a rogue falling deck beam, remove knees and chainplates, and find a wasps nest. I also visit some boatbuilders and a bronze foundry in Port Townsend.
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2017-12-20 19:17:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I talk about why I am rebuilding this boat, when it would probably be easier to just build a new one. I also get some help to take off all the deck planks and demolish the deck beams, and I consider the next stages of work.
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In this video I brace the hull of the boat in preparation for removing the deck and take off some deck hatches. I get a visit from a lovely English girl, and also get my first voluntary labour from a very tall neighbour. Oh, and I buy some funky Roller Skates!
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To help fund the project, in this video I go to work delivering a Three-masted Gaff Schooner from Rhode Island down to Bermuda. We leave Newport into the tail of a storm and have a fast and exciting sail South.
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2017-12-19 16:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, I remove all the bronze keel bolts and then try to lift the whole 15 ton boat up off its lead keel. I also hear back from the local building inspector about my shed, and check out some more of the local scenery.
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In this episode, I start uncovering Tally Ho's huge teak keel timber, jackhammering the concrete out of the bilge and removing the prop shaft. I go for a hike with a new friend, and I get a worrying visit from the building inspector about my new boat-shed.
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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 stubborn, and don't want to leave the hull of the sailing yacht that they have been fastened to for 107 years.
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In this episode; I have to take off to Maine for some sailing work aboard the mighty Three-masted Schooner Adix, and then furnish and move into the workshop loft when I get back. I also make a lofting table for the Tally Ho drawings, , in a thinly disguised attempt to put off all the real work waiting for me just outside the workshop.
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2017-12-19 16:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Before getting started with the Tally Ho restoration, I need to clear out the workshop and create a space for me to live in.
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2017-12-19 16:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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..
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2017-12-19 16:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Having decided to take on the restoration of Tally Ho, I clear the new site and wait for an enormous truck to bring her up to Sequim, Washington state... but will she fit around the side of the house?!
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2017-12-19 16:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The Albert Strange 1910 Gaff Cutter "Tally Ho" is in danger of being destroyed if she is not moved this summer. I go to Oregon to see how rotten she really is, and try to decide whether to take the project on.
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2017-12-19 16:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
