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Neophyte Boatwrights is a edutainment video series centered around all things to do with boatbuilding.
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18/06/2024

Trying on some inwales. Scarfed white oak. I’ll cut them close to their final length then install them after final install of the Breasthook and quarter knees.

29/05/2024

Breasthook fitted, cambered, and notched for the inwales. Here I’ve raised the grain with a light wipe of a moist rag. This piece of walnut poses a challenge for finishing. You can see that where the grain turns is almost acting like end grain and soaking up the water. When I did a test with some oil early on the same region darkened significantly more than the surrounding material. Are there any tricks to mitigate this? Varnishing directly without oiling? Some kind of clear coat? If I could get a uniform finish I’d be very pleased.

28/05/2024

Frames are done and dusted. Paused on the final three bc I ran out of material, but finally got around to finishing them with the help of . Another coat of primer on the interior and then quarter knees, breasthook, and gunwhales are on the horizon

05/05/2024

Well after what felt like countless hours of fitting, the breasthook finally fits in its spot. I must have offered it to the boat nearly 100 times. Each leg has a very subtle rolling bevel developed over a lightly curved face. Right now it sits about 3/4” above the sheer line so I can give a camber (if that’s what you call it). I have a few ideas about how I might approach the camber, but are there any -esque tricks out there for developing the shape?

21/04/2024

Baby steps with the breasthook. The stem notch is roughed in. A view from the underside shows how sloped the center face of the notch will be. No way around it, this is all hand tool work. Although I’m late to the party, bc walnut is a dream to work. A tight fit around the stem.

16/04/2024

Breasthook is going to be out of a walnut crotch. I checked all my bevels this time. Shouldn’t have any obtuse angles (pun intended) catching me off guard. But going to take my sweet time fitting this one.

12/04/2024

I think the blooper reel is going to grow exponentially during this phase of fitting boat furniture. So, fitting starboard quarter knee. Certainly anticipated that the joint between knee and sheer strake was going to be a rolling bevel, just didn’t expect it to roll passed 90! So I’m shamelessly gluing more material in so I’ve got the meat I need to fit the bevel. Using an old luthiers trick, using twine as a clamp.

29/03/2024

Patterning for the breasthook. This is going to be a tricky one. advises for the sake of one’s sanity not cutting the ears that wrap around the stem. Of course building a large wooden sailboat already calls one’s sanity into question so, what do I got to lose?

17/02/2024

A centerboard trunk is slowly materializing. For those that don’t know, a lead-weighted blade is housed inside this trunk, which can pivot down into the water to help counterbalance the force on the sails so you don’t tip over!

As with just about everything related to this build, I didn’t think building the trunk would be much of a challenge, but it’s proved the opposite. The sides of the trunk was one piece of Mahogany that I sliced into two. It was over 13” wide which meant cutting with the bandsaw was a no-go. So I resawed the whole thing by hand with a panel saw. 13” wide, 5’ long, it took me about 8 hours ago get through the whole cut!

11/02/2024

A crazy productive weekend working on framing out the boat. Immense and enduring props to for his generous devotion of time to helping take a big bite out of this process, and for being generally a very awesome dude. Just about 75% done with the ribs. Once these are in my rear view mirror, it won’t be long until Willaby hits the water

10/02/2024

New episode coming at y’all! (It’s been a while but I’m getting back at it!). This one I can about paint making and priming out the hull! Check it out!

05/01/2024

First coat of primer on exterior of hull. Only way to get whole thing in a pic is take these panoramas 🤷‍♂️. Top sheer plank (oak) is left bright and will be varnished.

19/12/2023

Test run steam bending oak ribs. Both bendings ultimately failed - I intentionally used subprime pieces for test run. Nevertheless, I wanted to see how bendy the oak is and whether or not I could do the half-ribs by myself. Also, I used one rib that I had soaked for several days and one that was dry to compare workability.

Verdict: 1) oak very bendy and manipulable!
2) trying to steam-bend half ribs by myself may be doable if I worked up some system like go-sticks to clamp the rib down in the bilge, but otherwise I think a two person operation is best.
3) noticed no appreciable difference between pre-soaked vs dry rib in terms of workability, but interestingly the soaked rib failed worse than dry one which was not my expectation.

So now for the real show!

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Fitting the starboard quarter knee. The amount of twist in the sheer joint caught me by surprise, so I had to add a little material to accommodate the full twists. I swear I heard somewhere that craftsmanship is not defined by what you do right, but how you fix what you did wrong. On my way to becoming a craftsman I guess… #boatbuilding #woodenboat #woodworking #quarterknee #tamarack

Gotta do what you gotta do to snug that rib #boatbuilding #steambending #woodworking #woodenboat

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