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32. An update on the replica Pilot Cutter Pellew

This episode I visit the massively impressive new Pilot Cutter being built in Cornwall, UK. She is named the Pellew, and is a replica of the 68′ Falmouth Pilot Cutter Vincent, which was built in St ...

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Progress Report and Future Plans!

Hey guys!

Just wanted to write a note to you all to say thanks, and let you know how things are going on the other side of the screen!

So firstly, a massive, MASSIVE thank you to each and ever...

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31. Bedding the Frames / Packing up Shop

This episode we make a few more frames, and I talk about the jigs and products that I use to bed the frame-heels into the keel pockets. I get some help from fellow youtuber Wood by Wright, and Kurt wo...

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Cecca painting...

...linseed oil on the new frames!

Sorry for the media blackout.. lots more pics and video coming soon!

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Tally Ho this morning.

Took a photo of the boat from a neighbouring field this morning, in the soft light before Sunrise. If you look carefully you can see some new frames!

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30. Surface Planing Jig / Framing Tools

This episode we develop some jigs and tables that will help the framing process go faster. The surface planing jig uses a large power plane to make one face of a piece of timber completely straight. &...

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29. Installing Frames / Calculating Bevels

***APOLOGIES FOR NOT POSTING THIS SOONER***

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 ...

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Fresh Frames!

So nice to have new frames in the boat.. Episode 29 coming tomorrow!

Thank you all! 

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Southern Live Oak into Purpleheart, yummmmm

But where does the frame heel end, and the notch in the keel begin?!


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28. Assembling Frames with Treenails

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 built with. ...

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Holiday!

Cecca finally convinced me that we need a lil' holiday. So we chucked a bed in the back of the truck, tacked up come curtains, and took off for a couple of nights. Hopefully we will return rejuvenated...

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Getting frames assembled!


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27. From Lofting to Re-Framing / Removing Planks

  

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 inside th...

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At last - new pieces of boat!

Cecca coats the first new futtock with Raw Linseed Oil, to help prevent checking and distortion.

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The Supervisor...

Pancho checks the Live Oak stock.. and places a template!!

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A tale of two sides...

Getting closer and closer to being able to re-frame!

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26. The Kindness of Strangers

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 ...

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New sign is up on the shed!

Health and safety officer Pancho approves...

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Talking at the Sequim Bay Yacht Club on Wednesday!

This Wednesday (11th July), I'll be doing a little talk with some photos at the Sequim Bay Yacht Club. Starts @ 7.30pm. I'll be talking about the history and the rebuild of Tally Ho, and a bit about t...

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25. Lofting the Lines; Part 2

  

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 A...

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Look who’s back!

😄

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Curvy curvy curves.

Drawing out the stations on the body plan using a combination of the waterline offsets from the table, and diagonal and buttock line offsets that I measure off the lines drawing myself. Each point is ...

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Finally getting to the interesting bit...!


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24. Lofting the Lines; Part 1

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...

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What the hell are all these numbers for?!

...anyone??

:p

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Laying down the sheer line!

Exciting! Getting the ply boards flat and painted and marking down the waterlines and perpendiculars accurately was kind of a pain, but now the fun stuff has started and I am beginning to really enjoy...

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Battens....

Cutting some long 30:1 scarphs in a jig to make some 50' long battens! Various lengths and dimensions of batten are needed to draw all the different curves in the lines plans. 

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you guys probably know what this means...!

...I didn't spend lots of money on plywood and white paint, just for a big dance-floor.

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23. The Wreck and the Rescue.

  

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 a...

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Tally Ho aground, Cook Islands, 1968

I've only just discovered this amazing photo of Tally Ho hard aground in the Cook islands in September '68. She was swept by local currents onto the reef as the crew slept, waiting for dawn. She would...

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