Getting Afloat series now on YouTube

Hi Yellow Ballard,

Downsides?? there are no downsides! I watch plenty of people put more time and effort into owning a GRP boat than some do to maintain a similar wooden boat. As long as you are either time rich, skills rich, or just plain old rich rich owning a wooden boat is straightforward and rewarding. If you are not rich in those areas stick with a dinghy, or buy GRP.

The downside of boatbuilding......in the winter its cold! The workshop is a steady 4 to 10 degrees for most of the winter, and well, its cold. At weekends I just stay indoors and prepare for the following week.

Barnaby is very well, and is now an accomplished boatbuilder with many big projects under his belt. He works in and around Falmouth. I spoke to him today!

Rgds,
Nick
 
A great series indeed, Nick, many thanks.

The shots of your workshop take me back to my (cabinet maker) grandad's barn where the sawdust & shavings were knee deep to an eight year old. Spent many a happy hour playing in there and like others seriously regret not working with wood for a living. A lot more satisfying than plumbing!

BTW have I missed episode 6?
 
Really enjoyed watching these!

And your excellent workmanship nick. Can't be many people about these days with those shipwright skills!

Thanks for sharing.
 
prv said:
Nice programmes, seemingly untouched by the tellywankers' normal urges to avoid any practical information (uninteresting to them personally, and assumed to be too complex for their audience) and to turn everything into a cliffhanger challenge or race against time (I honestly have no idea why they do this one).

I've watched all five that are up already - how many more are there for us to look forward to?

Pete
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Probably the best description of modern tv I have read in a while.
I'll exclude Top Gear and GT from that though :)
Look forward to watching Getting Afloat
 
VicS said:
Episode10, "Coastal Cruising" appears to be available now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1cXBCYLfw
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Cheers!

Interesting to see Wild Knight there, the ferro yacht up in the yard whose owner described visiting the Gambia and other exotic places. She was for sale just down the river from me until a year or two ago.

Also a good demo of why a Yeoman plotter was more useful than the video plotters of the time :)

Pete
 
thanks---watched all 10---inspired to try some woodwork alterations on my tupperware boat----your tools look super sharp----must get mine up to scratch
 
Episode 11, Channel crossing, appears to be available now


I enjoyed that .... having watched Ian rebuild Charity all those years ago.
 
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seanick that was a thoroughably enjoyable series, thanks for putting it up. Can you persuade someone to commission another one?
 
Just watched the Thames Barge episode. Very sad to see Millie in that state (and obviously she'll be even worse now!). She was raced and sailed extensively on the east coast by Richard Duke in the '60s and then became a house barge at Pin Mill for many years. I remember her there in the '70s, fully rigged and a very pretty barge.
 
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