Hi, my name is Leo, and I'm a boat builder
and a sailor., and I'm on a mission to rebuild and restore the 111 year old
classic sailing yacht. Tally Ho. Now in this video, we're going to be catching up
with all the stuff that the rest of the team has been really busy
with over the last few videos, while I've been lining out the deck
and making sampson posts and making videos and so on. The first thing we're going to look at
is the deck blocking, which is a pretty big job. Now, deck blocking in
this case is fairly small hardwood blocks,
which are let in to the deck beams to fill certain areas of the spaces
between the deck beams. And they have several purposes,
depending on where they are. But a lot of them are to support nibs
to support the ends of the deck strakes and so you'll remember when we were
talking about lining out the deck When the planks end,
they nib into the covered plank. But that nib, it can't just be over an open space between the deck beams
because it needs a fastening in it. So where those nibs do
have to land on deck beams, that's fine, but where they have to land
in between deck beams, then you need to put blocking in there
to receive the end of that deck strake and have a fastening through it. So I had like a number and a rough size of
of what the blocks should be. And I had a really long board of Angelique and it had some knots and had some cracks. So I went through and I tried
to figure out where I could take blocks. That would be big enough. Then I slice it
all up into more manageable pieces and sent them all through the planer,
the jointer, the table saw in order to get a nice square piece of stock,
which we could then turn into deck blocks. Once Pete started routing out the holes in the deck beams
for these blocks to go into, I would follow him with a chisel
and square up the corners since the router bit he was using
was like a half inch router, so there was a half inch radius
on all of the pockets. Once we had a nice square hole,
I could take one of these blocks I had made earlier, bring it in, place it and get all of the right measurements and locations
marked off of the deck beams themselves. Then I'd cut it. Bring it back to the hole. Try to put it in. I think I never got one perfect
on the first try. Then I'd go back and cut
it again and then put it in for real. And then once the block was fitted, we could then drill some pilot holes
for screws to go in eventually and then pop those suckers out
and pile them up somewhere for the next step. So for the last little bit here, we've been working on Deck blocking - nib blocking , deck blocking, bolted through the deck. A lot of that stuff gets backed up
by a block underneath the deck. So to start with our nib
blocking on the outboard edges where all of our decking strakes
come to an end, they get let into the covering boards out here,
and not all of them land on a deck beam. So you have to fill the void between
the beams with some sort of a block. In addition to that, we have our king
planks in the center line of the boat. There's three
8-inch-wide king planks here. And because of the layout of our deck,
it's partially sprung, which means we're also going
to have some nibs towards the center line. But up here at the bow,
there's a lot going on. We have a capstan here, anchor winless and we know there's the sampson posts
that go right here. The decking is not around
those sampson posts, and so that decking need somewhere
to fasten between these two deck beams. In addition to that, those two blocks
actually help stabilize the Sampson posts. The Sampson posts are bolted
through this beam and will be captured by that block, in addition
to what Leo showed in the last video. Then we have a bollard,
so that's that's another block let into these beams and that bollard
will get through bolted into that block. We have a chain stop for the anchor,
for the ground tackle. We've used a few different types of wood. Actually,
we have Angelique, Oak and Purple Heart, and it's fine mixing the wood. It just needs to hold a fastener. So all those words are relatively hard
woods. We've kind of
just used what we had on hand, but we're also painting them now,
which is a good idea. They're going to match the deck head. So the bottom of the deck streaks
are also get painted the same color because they're all right
next to each other up there. So as well as working on the deck,
blocking over the last few weeks, the guys have made a really good start
on milling down the deck plank stock. So this is all the Alaskan yellow cedar, which was milled up in Canada
and brought down here. It was rough cut at a little bit over
the two inch thickness that I wanted for my deck. So the first job in milling that timber
is to plane it down to the exact thickness, and in doing so,
get rid of all the the rough cut. saw marks from the mill, and any
discrepancies in thickness and so on. Once it's plaend down to thickness,
the next step is to rip up the wider boards into the correct width. For our deck planks, the deck planks are
going to be three inches by two inches. That's two inches
thick, three inches wide. And so all the planks
which are significantly wider than three inches,
we rip down into several narrower planks. So over the past few months, partly,
I think, because we're in a new location and partly because of the stage
we're at with this project, things have been going really well,
but it's been lots of different things going on at the same time,
which is good and necessary. But one of the disadvantages of that is that I've been finding it's
been increasingly difficult to document all the things which are going on at once
and get them all in the same video. Also, I've been finding
I've been having to do a lot of a lot more planning
work, a lot more sort of design, engineering, decision making to plan
for the next steps of the project. So system stuff, spars, sails,
all these things are going on in the background
but haven't had videos dedicated to them. So it's getting harder and harder for me
to capture everything on video and to edit the videos in a way
that makes a satisfying story. Now, I'm not complaining about that at all
because I love what I do, but I'm worried that the quality of the videos
could suffer because of that. And so one solution which I've been experimenting with
for the last few videos is to actually try and make them a little bit shorter
and a little bit more focused. And you will have noticed
in the last couple of videos they were just focused on more or less
one subject not showing all of the different things
which are going on at the same time. Now what this means if I carry on like that is that
these videos might be a little shorter, a little more focused on one thing,
but I might be able to make more of them. So the last two videos have been weekly,
and I might be able to keep that up. So I'm interested to know what you guys
think - if you prefer a longer video with a wider scope,
but less often or weekly videos with a more focused storyline
that goes from start to finish. And depending on what people prefer and what works best for me, I may do one
or the other or a mix of both. But I do want people to understand
why I'm doing that, why I'm thinking about changing it, making more frequent videos
and making them more focused. Well, also... My God, it's starting to hail on me,
but it'll also allow me perhaps to to approach subjects and stories
which I wouldn't have actually even considered before when trying to make
a much more wide ranging video. You know, this way
I could do a short video just on shopping tools or something,
for example. But anyway, that's clearly enough of that. So let me know what you think
and we'll see what happens. All right, so, go ahead. Who are you? I'm Jake, and, uh,
I'm here to help with the tally ho. My background is a little bit of carpentry and a formal education in ceramics
without a degree. And I'm looking forward to the time that I'm going to be spending on tally ho. Well, I'm working on the cockpit framing here. I've made a couple of carlins, this one fits on the bulkhead. This one goes from beam to beam,
this one ends at the bulkhead. It's got the shape and angle of the deck
cut into it. This is plumb,
and they're fit with the carlin notches,
which are a stepped slanting notch. What I'm doing now, though, is putting in
these little spur beams in here, and they're connecting the deck to the cockpit area,
which is a hatch in this area, and they're wide to accept the ends of the deck and the hatch. Well, there's one here and one here and a filler piece in here to nail the deck to, I made the corner post here, and it connects the framing
to the bulkhead and finishes off the bulkhead. It came out real well. [laughing] I don't know what to say. So the blocks are made and pre drilled
and currently dry fitted in place. And the next step is for us
to remove the blocks and sand them and put a round over with a router
and then put some primer and a layer of top coat before their final installation. All right, well, that's nearly it for now. The guys have been doing some really great work on the deck,
blocking a lot of progress has been made that rocks are all finished
and ready to go in the boat. We haven't done the final install yet
because there's a few things we want to finish up with the deck
structure first, including some diagonal bronze strapping and cleaning up
some varnish work and so on. Richard's been doing a really great job
in the cockpit area, and I'm going to look a lot more closely
at the cockpit in another video. But just briefly, this is going to be
the seating inside the cockpit combing and these openings here are going to be
deck lockers with opening lids on them. The reason this Carlin doesn't go
all the way forward to this king beam here is just that there's
going to be a fore-and-aft bulkhead here,
notching into this corner post. And so that will provide all the strength that's needed and support
for the planks on top. Thanks a lot for watching. And a massive, massive
thank you to everyone who has donated or otherwise supported
this project. It does make a huge difference,
and it means that I'm able to keep on making these videos
and we're able to keep on doing this work. So I really, really appreciate it. And I'll see you next time. Cheers.
