Tally Ho leaves the harbour!

hi my name is Leo and I'm a boat builder and a sailor a few years ago I bought a very old and quite famous wooden Sailing Boat for the price of $1 and since then I've been rebuilding that boat from the keup with the help of a lot of amazing people well we've got a few different things going on in this episode and the most exciting thing of course is that we're going to be taking talho out on her first sea trial and that means going outside of the harbor into the Open Water and we're going to be testing the engine the electric propulsion and various other things while we're out there also in this episode we're going to be looking at the saloon table how it was built how it functions how it looks in the boat right now but before we get to any of that we got a couple of little jobs to do on the boat before we can go out we're going to fill the water tanks and we're going to install the engine room door coming [Music] down yummy so what are we doing Joe we are going to we have this flow meter here we need to zero out and we are going to fill the water tanks we filled them already but we didn't have the the depth gauges set up they're ultrasonic gauges merron gauges that are going to tell us how much water we have but we have to calibrate them so we need to fill the tanks up and we're going to do it in 10 gallon increments and then then do a calibration process see we'll stop at five star star oh here we go step F on I still got it okay I got it now all right and then we'll want to come in hinge first hinge first oh yeah come on dude I'm trying to get out of here well hey God damn it you ask a guy to carry your 100 lb door around he takes his damn time he takes him [Music] walking yeah dude [Music] wow dam look at that dude that's dump I know it's crazy dude sick brass led into that backer piece so that that doesn't wear it down over time yeah that's a good idea yeah so we're going to remake these and put a little extendo on the back so you can grab it as a handle thanks y'all wow man the table the door yeah dude it's crazy in here all right man wherever are we going to put this I don't know I wish that there was a spot decided already lowering lowering nice dude that is satisfying going to take lay can you holler at me if I'm about to hit the hatch sure will awesome that is so great that's such a good use of space so talho dingy is stowed on deck and you probably saw the really cool little blocks that Zeal made that sort of catch the edge of the hull when it's upside down and stop it from moving around he also put in some pad eyes on the hatches uh which give us some really strong points to lash the dingy down to so with all that it'll be really secure when the boat is out at Sea now I just want to give a quick shout out to our friends at Admiral Ship Supply which is our local marine chandlery and boat building supply store and it's just over the road there inside the Boatyard uh Bob and his team Admiral are super friendly really knowledgeable they've helped us out with all sorts of things uh including talio antifoul which they supplied for free which I'm very grateful for uh but they also stock all sorts of other boat building materials which can be quite hard to find and they put on an awesome barbecue a couple of times a year for all the people in the yard so thanks to Bob and everyone at Admiral Ship Supply now we're going to go back in time a little bit right now so I can show you the construction of the saloon table I want to show you the finished thing but first I want to show you how it was made and how much skill and Care went into it George started making this quite a while ago uh by painstakingly removing the rivets and fastenings from tal Ho's original planking and replacing them with bungs of the same material so this table is all made of tal Ho's original teak planks [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so keeping in theme I made the table using a mixture of both modern and traditional joinery all of the long pieces in the table are joined together using Domino joinery but at the ends of the table there are tenons cut into those long pieces that match mortises in those breadboards that run across the width of the table when those ends of the table might get leaned on the tenons will provide support and keep that piece from being snapped off like in the gy we decided to use fiddles or SE rails to keep things on the table from sliding off in heavy weather we decided we wanted to make them removable so that the table could be used to make another double birth and the way we did that was by Drilling holes and inserting copper sleeves in those holes along the perimeter of the table and then in each of the fiddles we threaded an epoxied bronze rods that we also threaded the ends of so that those rods could slide into the sleeves and be thumb screwed down to the table for me one of the most satisfying parts of working on this project has been the opportunity to reuse old pieces of tally hoe in our rebuild using this older Lumber has been an absolute Joy because uh the ring structure in this old old growth tee is very different from what you'll find in most modern grown te and it's been absolutely fascinating to see the difference in Woodworking and smell and everything [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so the saloon table is in and of course it looks beautiful George did a really nice job of putting this all together repairing all the old holes in the old teque planking and you can see it's just really beautiful wood really cool to have another part of the original boat reused in the interior now it's got these four fiddles all the way around which will stop things falling off the table when you're at se and that's really important but they're only attached with thumb screws and so they can just be easily taken out when you're in Port and you want to be able to use a table a bit more like a conventional table in a house of course when you're at sea things like this need to be really strong because you could EAS easily fall into it lean against it or just need to grab onto it to steady yourself so we put quite a lot of thought into how this table is attached to its legs and how the legs are attached to the boat and we ended up making some really heavyduty stainless steel brackets um so there's some brackets on the bottom of the table which the legs slot into and there's some brackets underneath the sole which are kind of bolted to the structure of the boat and again which the legs slot into now I've made it all removable so the legs are clamped into each bracket with a couple of bolts that rest on metal pads in the leg and part of the reason that we've done that is because this table can actually go down and make a double birth with the seating so we have some shorter legs so to do that you just take the table out replace the legs with the shorter ones and put it back down and then this cushion goes on top of the table and should make a nice big double bth here you can of course get special table legs which go up and down for this sort of thing uh but they look much more modern and I don't think they would fit the aesthetic of the Interior very well uh these legs are really strong they're very simple very sturdy and very simple to change out as well it's just a little bit more work um but I don't think it'll have to happen very often either that the table goes up and down um so really pleased with how this has all come together uh one more thing we're going to do in here is make a bench that goes on this side of the table so that people can sit all the way around it so we're about to go out for a First Sea trials um which is absolutely terrifying but very exciting uh we're not going to be putting any sails up or anything we're just running the engine we want to uh test it uh while the boat's moving and full power and that kind of thing so we're going to go to the fuel dock fill up with diesel and we're going to be calibrating our diesel tank senders uh at that same time so that in the future we'll know how much diesel we have in the tanks pretty accurately and then we're going to go out and um drive around a bit and come back in hopefully with uh no disasters on the way uh it is a very low tide right now so um cautious of running ground which isn't actually the end of the world if it happens um but other than that there's just a little breeze the sun's out uh pretty exciting [Music] motor we're only going to the field do right now so there's not too much to talk about but we're just going to back out go up there paty do you want to tend this B spren yeah let's take off all our lines apart from number [Music] two all right cast off on the bou string you trying to cut a b cut trying to get in the shop somebody here [Applause] has fender [Music] about Springs across where you want it let's take that to the that there you go hey man how you thank you all right I'll drag out some hose great at the machine forming out the numbers y so basically okay let me I'm going have to what do we got there 9.9 4 9 here you go just take it as far forward as you can pumping looks like we still got room 110.0 yeah they're big tights I know bigger than I expected so that's 140 Joe an inch to an inch and a half below the stand pipe I like that okay we'll stop there yeah 140 is a good number it is a nice round number lucky number nice one passing job yeah easy all right cost off 30 Sprint to building [Music] [Music] holy moly this is craing [Music] you [Music] man wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is my spot I think a little steering wheel right here and a horn [Music] you're way over promt yeah this is the max we're getting 2000 RPO oh it's over pitch no we got reduc the pitch see what I'm talking about as far as the RPMs just creep up on you'll be like oh shoot I'm not getting any more RPMs but the lever is still moving yeah I see it you can feel it right yeah so we'll either need to get a diver to go down or need to haul back out to adjust that yeah Bing now yeah rocking over a little bit so the first part of our SE trial was testing the diesel engine uh and quite apart from just being out there and it feeling so incredible to have the boat out of the harbor and driving you around the testing also overall went really well the engine ran really smoothly and it was pushing the boat along at 8 knots which is pretty incredible it was faster than I was expecting we did find one issue which is that we're currently over propped and that's to do with the pitch of the propeller not being quite matched to the engine uh and that just requires some adjustment of the propeller pitch we think we got a little bit more investigating to do but overall really happy with how the engine is running generally uh the next part of the SE tral was to test the electric propulsion uh so we did that and you can't really hear it CU it's so quiet uh but we drove around a little bit using the electric power testing the speeds at different throttles and Tes in the current draw and so on before we came back in and mored in our birth again all right let's see how this works [Music] yeah she's taking off czy so sick this BS is taking some power pretty freaking cool though if we do come in the stone we'll go Bo leading spring first should go smoothly but really Anything Could [Music] Happen let the wind the bar there you I got think you squ off you get that on this right there than go for it another couple feet you like it Leo yeah I like it he likes it thanks everyone nice parking dude thanks so overall our very first SE trial went really well it just felt incredible to get the boat out of the break water out into the bay feel her moving feel her responding to the helm um and of course testing the engine and other systems uh was really important we got a lot more of that to do we got a bit of investigating uh in terms of our over propping issue um and we're going to be going up again uh very soon but for now 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 it means we're able to carry on doing this work and it means we're able to keep on making and editing these videos so I really really appreciate it and I'll see you next time cheers [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Sampson Boat Co

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Length: 22min 28sec (1348 seconds)

Published: Sat May 18 2024