Why the hell not timber spline and glue *all the seams*, rescrew, double epoxy sheath the lot?. You get a dry bilge, a bulletproof hull, nothing but antifouling and topside paint FOREVER. Yeah, I know, not purist, traditional. But hey. Do you really want to be redoing cotton caulking for the rest of your life? There comes a time in the life of every timber boat when it is either sheath-over or burn. Your call, of course, depending on past damage, present finances, and projected future effort.

Hi, I posted a positive comment a couple of days ago but I now have a question. I ordered a replacement POLE PIECE as I broke the original trying to remove to get to the the top bearing, in your video I don't think you cover the removal or replacement. The replacement POLE PIECE BDE-868141-00.A5 from Miles seems too tight, the top of the armature diameter is 6.5mm and the pole piece is 6mm and I've just broken that one getting it on. I've ordered another so do I need to ease the hole in the pole piece buy drilling it to 6.5mm? Any advice would be appreciated before I break the second replacement !

Thank you for your video.

Is it not shorted at connections. Because the copper pipe is connected at the j

Sory not steel. Composite hull. Is it glued? I am considering one around gunnels of my steel boat.

How is the fender attached to the steel ?

GREAT Video! Very interesting and informative. Nice setup inc solar system. I will deffo get out on the hills in the near future. '73's from EI2EBB

Great work nice setup. Its quite hard to get hold of a buddi charger in the uk. I could do with something like one of them 73

Fascinating! Lovely to watch a craftsman at work. And the voiceover explaining the processes is just right. Love wooden boats, but always been afraid of the skills required to maintain them (I have a grp Tideway). So thank you for making these, they are a treat to watch. Subscribed.

Great job fella!

Hi Colin, this was really interesting. What a beast of a chainsaw. Very quick to make those cuts. Would be great if you follow up with how they dry and how straight they are when you finally come to use them. I'm milling with Dad's little Husky 435 with a 15 inch bar and a home made mill. I've been putting it to the test on some Jarrah!

I like the precision

nice to see that someone is wants to put so much work in a Mørebas made where I grew up. My boss many years ago went the north west passage with a 20 feet Mørebas back in 79-80. iff you need som info just shout out its going to bee fun to see :)

Lovely job Peter

Found one on the dump today, no leaks, my boys and I are taking it fishing in a moment.

So is there any problems with expansion?

Hi, which varnish did you use, and how much did you have to thin it, to be able to spray it. Cheers.

interesting. one question off topic maybe. given counterpoise ef antenna. can counterpoise be raised as well?

Wow stunning boat. Looked great at the end there. Can you also do some more chainsaw videos?

There’s always a little treat left hiding somewhere from a previous worker 🤦‍♂️

A cracking day at the highest point in Pembrokeshire. Good weather and good company. Well done Colin. You certainly earned you tea and biscuits!

I use electric fence insulators. Some are also good for the antennas 73 John GM0MST

Painful. This should have been edited to 1 video. Nice job though.

Thank you for the info and video, very useful for making shuttering for the base of a crank over radio mast. Rgds from Exeter. Devon.

Great video. Helped answer my questions and gives me confidence to do it myself.

As you can tell by the time stamps of my comments. I can share with you some techniques to allow such a small RF meter to show good deflection at a distance for HF. You would need to feed the recrifying circuit via an inductor from the small antenna and it would have to be tuned to resonance. It is tricky and I haven't seen other radio enthusiasts do it yet. You have inspired me to demonstrate such a principal. It is tricky but with the appropriate magnetic material we can use an external magnetic field to tune to resonance. I'm not a crusty ham saying I know it all I am an experimental ham that hasn"t yet shared my knowhow. The differential sides of both the input and output need to be fed at opposite ends. Imagine, unlike a common mode choke over a ferrite that has two parralel conductors, we feed the two parralel conductors from the opposite sides which actually adds to the coherence of both the E and B fields. Two opposing currents running in opposite direction actually add together.

I like how you left the lugs on the side where you can add any sized element you want 🙏 Antenna element size is critical for the bands you are trying to use. Again, Great work my friend 🙏

We call these, "relative RF field strengrh meter".

What sandpaper did you use to get rid of the paint, please

Tensioner from a MsS250 is direct replacement.

your HS pants , look back at this video and think again , p,s Captain P there ive skipped that for a time,

Just did similar with my Redcrest. With both my bikes out to workshops, I had space in my garage to carry out some repairs. all came out well, now looking forward to a little dry weather this weekend to test!

send it back and ask for your money back....shoddy engineering!

GREAT VIDEO Very informative!. It's wonderful that someone takes the time to rescue older good quality items instead of dumping them in this disposable society. The accent was hard to understand, but subtitles solved that. Thank you!

I understood everything he was doing without talking. Good Job Evans

At this point, the planking is essentially glued-edge carvel.

Lettering them should of been a criminal offence

Shame you didn't show the exact mechanism operation.

Nice Video & Nice Work my Friend ⚡🙏⚡ 73 from the Prison Isle (Australia) VK3VKe 👌

I`ve got an ELU router too and had to change the upper bearing. It would have been very interesting to see how he took the bearings out of the body and special the upper one from the shaft. the same in assambling. when it became interesting the video speed increases to an terrible speed. conclusion: not very useful video for repair description.

👍I think you worked it out. These Pixie kits transmit a very low level carrier in RX mode, just above the TX frequency. It is because the TX power output transistor is being used as a multiplier (mixer) in RX mode.

I've just got hold of a redcrest here in NZ of the same vintage 1979. It had been in storage for years but didn't have any leaks or patches. The rear valve had been replaced with a newer type used on the more recent Avons. Had a slow leak in the inflatable seat valve. A squirt of WD40 loosened up the spring and is now sealed. I had a similar Redcrest as a tender to my sailing vessel for 6 years which survived many a bashing on rocks, shingle, concrete piers and attacks by local kids in various parts of the globe hell bent on its destruction.

I heard no pow oh wtf ?

Well, "back in the day" (horrible phrase), Elu weren't just "relatively good quality" - they really were the best routers on the market. BTW, the MOF96e shown was an 8mm router not a 1/4in, although many of thiose supplied in the UK came with a 1/4in (6.35mm) collet instead. Bearings for the MOF96 are still under a tenner in 2023, so not really a killer if they fail, but you do need a bit of technical nous to do the bearing swap.

Why did you not show us how to put it back together at normal speed?

Fabulous job!!! I have an Avon Scow I plan do to renovate myself, you've set the bar a bit high!!

Great review thank you. After researching all the log splitters I have after seeing your post ordered one of these for 1 reason and 1 reason only, I now know what i am buying and the potential faults to expect and how to overcome them. Thank you

A really informative, simple but good quality video. He knows his stuff!

I just got a this same boat. The valves are different on mine. They a steal and have little rubber plugs inside the screw on caps. To inflate, you unscrew the vales a turn or two and put the pump to it. Then, simply tighten them and the hold the airpressure.

Put an extension on the Ram. Keep it close to the pile. Extend the welds . Try to keep the mesh guard.