BoatBuilding - Bilge Stringers / Oak problems! (EP72)

[Music] hi my name's Leo and I'm a boat builder and a sailor and I'm on a mission to rebuild and restore this 110 year old classic sailing yacht Tallyho last week we finished making most of the deck structure so this week we're hoping to bed it and fasten it down but before we do that we've got a big timber delivery coming here very soon with the planking stock so we've got to clear some space for it by doing some gardening shipwright style [Music] [Music] check it what we're doing see really making space the plankings doc come in tomorrow or Thursday so I've cleared out a nice big space for stacking timber here now and since we've done this we actually went down to the kiln in Port Townsend where my planking stock was very gently drying out we unloaded it all from the kiln and stacked it on the road there outside even saw the timber supplier and they're going to bring up here so we can stack it here ready to be curtain two planks and fastened to the boat where the time comes [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so the Juana arrived of course and we got it out of the truck pretty easily in the end and I decided that because it's still going to be a few more weeks before we were able to start planking I wanted to set up an air drying system to keep the air flow moving through the timber the dry we did in the kiln was extremely gentle because I really didn't want to dry it the wood out too fast and have it check and split and also didn't want to cook it too much and damage the structural properties of it so we took it really slowly and gentle and we didn't take it down to a really really dry moisture content we left it just a little bit wet but hopefully what this is going to do is going to keep on air drying it and she's going to keep gently reducing the moisture content a little bit more it's very simple the fans just blow the air out and the top stops the air from coming in between the stacks at the top but the top is open at the back so it pulls air in from behind all the air goes through all the stacks hopefully and then it's blown up the Front's is a continual rotation of air there and as that dry air goes in it picks up a little bit of moisture as it goes past the surface of the timber and it comes out leaving the wood slightly drier and that's just a continuous circulation there of a fresh dry air going in very slightly more moist air coming out [Music] all right well I was hoping we would be fastening the deck structure down now but unfortunately we have a bit of a problem after discovering the bacterial wet wood last week we inspected or the timber that we'd use much more closely and although we didn't find any more of that bacterial infection what we did find was that one of the logs which we've used has a grain which we're not happy with it doesn't look like white oak should look like and we've basically been trying to figure out what it is and if it's suitable for what we're doing so oak in general has small pores in between its growth rings these run up and down the tree and they suck nutrients and so on up in white oak those pores generally blocked off so things can't pass freely through them but in this piece which came from the log in question the pores are open so they're like straws and they run all the way down the timber so you can actually blow air through them and what that means is that they will suck up water as well which is very bad news for a boat because if you get a little bit of fresh water getting in onto the piece of timber instead of running off it or drying off eventually or in the worst case getting a small area of rot what will happen is that water will wick up into the timber it'll travel the whole length and eventually that'll probably create a lot of rot in the whole piece now generally Reddick has open pores like that and Louie from tips from a shipwright did a really good video about identifying red oak and the reasons why you'd want to identify it now I've been doing quite a lot of research a bit of testing and a few back builders have a look at this stuff and I've not got a clear answer on what it is yet so I'm still researching and trying to figure out if we should put it into the boat if we should replace it but the trouble is we made I think 18 of these half beams out of this particular log and one full beam as well so to remake them all is a lot of work so morale is a bit low here right now we're just trying to figure out what to do but I'm really glad that there's another ship right here because Pete has been able to start working on making the stringers while I keep on seeing this stuff and making phone calls and trying to figure out what to do [Music] well it's been a bit of a funny week so far not only have we all been a little bit downhearted about the okk situation but also Chuck I had to leave unfortunately she just had to go back to the UK for a bit so it's been a slow start what with moving all the plank and stuck around and means spending your day going to the airport and trying to figure out what to do about this oke but having done the brake testing on the egg it was clear really what the decision needed to be and so you know I've decided now that the best thing to do is to replace all that and I already feel a lot better just having made that decision I actually talked to Duke who I booked Tim Roth he's pretty sure that it is white oak and I'm sure he's right because he really doesn't know his stuff he thinks it might be some kind of cross hybrid he agrees that it shouldn't be porous like that so I'm going to send him a sample we're gonna find out exactly what it is but he's very generously offered me a refund for that log which is great in the meantime Pete's been making great progress with the build stringer the build stream runs fore-and-aft along the frames on the inside about half way up they're made from Angelique and they add a lot of strength to the hull particularly in the area where the hull would lay if the boat is dried out on the tide for example and she lays on her side that's Sierra which would take a lot of the weight and so it adds more strength there so at least I know where I stand now with the egg things are looking up and tomorrow morning I'm gonna get on with replacing those half beams don't start putting these beams out yeah I'll label them [Music] so I suppose what I'm doing is preparing for the build stringer to go in by making sure that the frames all line up in a fair curve along the middle here and I'm doing that by by carving out where the high spots are and then stringing the baton across here to double-check for fare and getting a nice firm baton along and making sure that I got all the gaps super flesh super flesh so much fun yeah everything's fine here [Music] [Applause] [Music] Eli's wood shavings dogs life huh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what are you doing peace I'm remaking half beams we got a funny flinch we've figured out some things last week we thought maybe we had some red oak and then it turned out it's all white oak but some of its not the best quality white oak and we still had some left over nice white oak and we're remaking the half beams with some really nice white oak it's like a restoration project we're restoring a rest or double restoration yeah that's what we're doing actually I'm pretty bummed about it oh we kind of spent last week going back and forth whether or not we should this oak was snapping kind of like a carrot which you don't really want that's that's no good and it was wicking up water it'll suck water right up the end grain which you also don't really want so we have some better stuff and we'll use that it makes a lot more sense fun boat stuff we're learning here did I learn something new every day pack your seen the front of the boats called it the front this is this is the right side you get you get into the boat by opening the doors and the sales go up by a series of ropes that's something I learned from my Oh what are you sleeping you sleep in the bedroom I need any takers do you take a crap in the toilet in the bathroom don't yet well you've learnt so much for being here yeah yeah you've now qualified from Leo's dodgy boat school it took me two months man yeah learned a lot [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right well we finally got the deck structure back together again now all the new half beams have been fitted and now I know that the entire deck structure is really good-quality strong what resistant white oak so it actually didn't take as long as I thought it would just took a few days and we're back to where we were so we can now move forward and forget about it lesson that this week is to inspect timber more thoroughly before using it even if you think you know what it is right so here we have the four parts of the to build stringers and today we're going to try and get these into the boat we can't go over the top because of the deck beams and more importantly the cross poles which are in the way and there's not enough room to go through the frames so we're going to take them way aft and push them in through the transom or where the transom would be once they're inside the boat we will bolt them together we'll bend and edge set them into place and then we'll cut the joints on the board ends where they meet the stem [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay German specs moved in tight it's gonna be hella bad I mean I've got the weight right did just audience up are you holding any weight huh she's holding itself damn that's nice it's pretty stiff it's pretty stiff a little edge to than that sure we can yeah [Music] [Music] that's pretty much where you want it huh yeah yeah is that high up enough in the front yeah in them sorry forward so we've got the portside stringer roughly in the place where we want it I'm just taking the bevels from the front of the string and where its going to meet the stem so we can take it out again and cut that joint so fit up nicely in there nice and tight so if I getting in has been not too difficult it's easier curved than the beam shelf I think but we haven't got the twist into it yet and the edge sets there's still quite a bit of work to do and that last bit might be quite hard [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes this is the end of the eighth week that I've been here that can go back to Santa Fe I'm actually building my own design studio and I'm also helping open the clay center of Santa Fe once the pandemic kind of calms down I'll be teaching classes and pottery and sculpture come on down that's a really low-key blood gret there's a day Tahlia viewers that depends on if they've answered all the quiz questions correctly like offset hatch and all that stuff maybe Hey well the Eagle ad beers would have noticed that the forward hatch had a little skylight on the right hand side for that reason that the actual companionway was offset about six inches to the left so we had to set the actual Carlin's on the hatch three inches to the right to center the actual companionway the actual sliding companionway is going to be on the sense of oh yeah yeah because otherwise it would have been too far to the left then the boat would have tipped over so I mean you know balance is it's actually more important than than you think when you're at sea because it's not like you have wheels on the car you know actually there aren't gonna be any wheels on this all right yeah no no wheels at all I thought you know I was shocked when I can't buy there's no axles are at it that's weird so the build stringers are in took quite a bit of effort and a lot of clamping and banging but they're into position we have to edge set them quite a bit to get them exactly where we wanted but it's a lot quicker at doing this with a few pairs of hands and in fact after we got the first one in the guys were able to get the second one in while I was editing this video the next step will be to fasten these to the frames and then we ought to go back to the deck structure and get that all finished off that's all we've got time for right now though so thanks a lot for watching and a massive thank you to everyone who's donated or otherwise supported the Tallyho project it doesn't make a huge difference and it means that I'm able to take the time to make and edit these videos so I really appreciate it I'll see you guys next time Cheers [Music]

Channel: Sampson Boat Co

Views: 1,155,282

Rating: 4.9273458 out of 5

Keywords: carpentry, carpenter, joiner, woodwork, wood, timber, plane, planer, router, joinery, jig, surface planer, jointer, tools, workshop, straight edge, framing, timber framing, big timber, wood porn, power plane, Makita, dewalt, cabinetry, boatbuilding, wooden boat, traditional, power tools, hand tools, shipwright, joint, hardwood, softwood, rot, oak, white oak, mill, lumber, circular saw, chisel, sharpening, restoration, classic yacht, boat

Id: otVWlANAOfc

Length: 25min 27sec (1527 seconds)

Published: Sat May 16 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/RogueWriter]

Can't say enough good things about Leo and his project. Rebuilding a century+ old wooden yacht by hand for the most part singlehandedly, has been amazing to watch.

Seriously, watch this from the beginning. It's worth every minute.

[u/7LBoots]

I've been watching this channel since nearly the beginning.

He's got years under his belt as a shipwright. Almost every video is an artisan video.

[u/ohh_myy]

Gorgeous work.

[u/climb-it-ographer]

He's having oak problems, and Arabella is having cedar problems. I love watching these two boats come together.

[u/TheRealYeastBeast]

I found Leo's channel about 7 or 8 months ago and immediately binge watched every episode up to that point. Been watching intently ever since. Sucks about the deck beams having to be replaced, but at least I trust he's making the right decision for the Tally-ho even if it set him back a couple weeks.