Tally Ho getting really interesting

So Leo has made a spelling mistake and you feel the need to point it out? Good grief. There’s a guy over on the MoBo forum confusing there and their. Would you like the link so that you can add value to the post?
 
XDC said:
So Leo has made a spelling mistake and you feel the need to point it out? Good grief. There’s a guy over on the MoBo forum confusing there and their. Would you like the link so that you can add value to the post?
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Strangely, I'm much more relaxed about errors in a forum cf. in a web site belonging to someone wanting commissions for writing. Hardly worth correcting a forum post, don't you think?

Mike.
 
Flynnbarr said:
At what point does it become a replica not a restoration?
Curiosity not criticism.
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“Now, it is a law in Lloyd’s that the Jane repaired all out of the old until she is entirely new is still the Jane” (Joshua Slocum - “Sailing alone around the world”.

I don’t think it does become a replica. It’s a restoration, using the same techniques as the original build, and incorporating original material.

There isn’t cell in my body that was in it eight years ago, but I’m still me.
 
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Minn said:
After a half century of wooden boats I am familiar with the techniques, have used some of them, and watched friends using the others. He is doing everything “properly”. Not a single short cut, so far. The “primer” is red lead.
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All rubbish-- Brent Swain would have built 10 boats & sailed round the world 3 times & hit 6 reefs by now. Bloke on the video is an amateur!!!!! Oh & for 1/20Th the cost all in
 
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Minn said:
The lofting episodes repay careful watching. And the latest episode with the planing jig and the frame assembly table.

So far, no glue.
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I noticed that. Very interesting, I wonder how far along we'll be before we see glue.

There's a LOT of framing work to do. Even with all the tools and jigs he has now, ie ship saw and the planing jig, its a lot of work.
 
The most recent episode was a real insight into Leo.

I became a patron, just a small amount, but its great entertainment that I look forward to and helps a cause I am interested in.
 
I bought one of the Tally Ho challenge coins from Doug at SV Seeker, primarily to give Leo a few dollars towards the project but also I wanted to see what these coins were all about. I have to say it is a real quality item and a nice keepsake.
 
I think he is close enough to the number of Patrons that we are going to be in a book carried on board. I like that thought.

Yay, he’s done it, level 3. Nice thought to go and visit him when he arrives in the UK and see our name :encouragement:

https://www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco
 
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burgundyben said:
Nice. But not authentic?
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Authentic to Tally Ho specifically, or in general? I'm not a wooden boat expert but I believe plenty of better-quality yachts of that era (but not working boats) had floors in bronze.

If the objection is that Tally Ho herself wasn't originally built with them, well, neither was she built with a purpleheart keel and live-oak frames.

Pete
 
Boats are also much happier if you restrict these things to at least one family of metals- he's already decided on bronze keel bolts and plank fastenings.
Putting iron floors in purely on the grounds of authenticity, would make life pretty complicated.
The only reason she didn't have bronze floors and knees originally was cost.
 
burgundyben said:
I'd be using bronze too (if Minn is right and that's Leo's plan)
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I think he mentioned it in the "mind of a boatbuilder" video; he said it would depend on the finances.

From what we've seen so far, it seems highly unlikely to me that he would take the less-than-the-best option under any circumstances :)

Pete
 
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