WOODEN BOATS AND YOUTUBE

WOODEN BOATS AND YOUTUBE

In the Jan/Feb issue of the USA magazine WoodenBoat they ran a small feature on some of the best Youtube channels that focus on wooden boating. Most of them are on my watch / rotate list but I thought some of the WW readers might appreciate knowing where to look. I hope the links below work, if not given the weather forecast to have plenty of time to manually search 🙂

My favourites are – TALLY HO, Building a boat by the river, Travels with Geordie and Madison Boatworks. 

Also in the magazine is a great article on the re-building of TALLY HO by Leo Goolden, worth the cost of the mag just for this. As an aside Leo’s YouTube site has had over 113 million views and has been an amazing funding stream for the project.

@SampsonBoatCo

@TravelsWithGeordie

@AcornToArabella

@Building_a_Boat_by_the_River

@MadisonBoatworks

@SailingYaba

@TipsfromaShipwrightvideos

Also keen on these ones

@SailingMagicCarpet

@SmallSailboatCruising

And of course there has to be a boat photo – on Thursday I was at The Slipway Milford and both CENTAURUS  and AWARIKI are looking stunning. CENTAURUS has the final coat on her topsides and owner Angus has been leaving away on some of the brightwork. The varnishing work has also just started on AKARIKI’s coamings.

AWARIKI

Mystery Devonport Yacht

1800s Devonport

Mystery Devonport Yacht

The caption on this photo ex Keith Humphreys states its dated c.1800, not sure if that is correct, but I am sure one of the woodys will be able to tell us the name of the yacht.
The location is Devonport, Auckland.
The Story of Tally Ho
On the other side of the world, a truely amazing project is underway by a very young boatbuilder named Leo Sampson Goolden to restore the 1910, Albert Strange built Pilot Cutter, Tally Ho – check out the link below & view the video posts – remember to start at #1. Special thanks to woody Denis O’Callahan (MV Tasman) for the heads up on the story. If you are anything like me you will be lost for several hours 🙂