Deep Dive In Wood Rot & A Surprise Behind The Stove! - Saving North Star - [Ep. 6]

In todays episode the crew dives deep into the demolition work and explores how extensive the damages actually are, and how much work we have ahead. James gives us a course on wood rot and its preventions, and Gary finds a cannonball behind the stove.
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Credits:
Owner of North Star: June Victoria Harrison
Executive Producer: Lyle Franklin
Director & Producer: Johannes Fast
Camera 1: Johannes Fast
Camera 2: Emerson Cymet, Kyle Brewis
Music: Lyle Franklin
Post Production: Johannes Fast
French Subtitles: Morgan Labaisse
Books by the third owner of the North Star, R. Bruce Macdonald:
Sisters of the Ice:
www.amazon.com/Sisters-Ice-He...
North Star of Herschel Island - The Last Canadian Arctic Fur Trading Ship.
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Never Say P*g:
www.amazon.ca/Never-Say-Book-...
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www.favouriteboatworks.com
www.northstarofherschelisland.ca
Favourite Boatworks is a Vancouver based wooden boat repair and restoration business that offers professional shipwright, corking, and rigging services in the lower mainland. The business is based in Vancouver on the Fraser River and is servicing British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest wooden boat fleet.
We wish to acknowledge that Favourite Boatworks is located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia. We pay our respects to the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples of this area, acknowledging their enduring connection to this land, and we would like to express our gratitude and respect for their historical and ongoing stewardship of these lands.

[@larrysorenson4789]

In the 1950’s and 1969’s the cost of commercial fishing went up. Sales went down. And in order to simply stay in business the boats were “repaired” with whatever was at hand and cheap. I’ve seen fiberglass cloth over completely shot siding just to get a fee more trips out of her. You cannot criticize these guys. They were fighting for survival.

[@vancemarin8022]

Tally Ho all over again !! I am going to enjoy this series !!!

[@robertgoodrick7640]

And for some it's local

[@the.jameswilliam]

I thought the exact same thing!

[@peterlukaszyk6024]

I just wanted to write that😂

[@greggraber8299]

I was in the exact same place

[@SVOceanBird]

Get a boat they said 😆👍

[@mrfish270]

I spent a week working on the Tally Ho when it was in this phase. Dirty, hard work, and lots of it. Love this project and the style of filmmaking.

[@eliotsell7483]

I love James' educational segments. keep them coming.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Will do 🫡

[@Pocketfarmer1]

Looks like you got her just in time. She must have been floating by force of habit . The lecture on rot and fungus ,by Mr. McConnell was excellent.

[@robertgold2643]

Who would’ve guessed that old guitar in some capable hands would’ve made such a great soundtrack for this project. Loving every second of this.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

The music really ties it together hey!

[@MinSredMash]

I could listen to lectures on rot all day

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Us too 😌

[@robfaith6029]

I have watched 3 years of the dismantling of Sailing Yaba and the total re- construction back into a beautiful yacht I look forward to the journey of this ship

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Glad to have you onboard!

[@dingc.velasco6038]

l stopped watching "Sailing Yaba" when the main characters refused the advice of the more knowledgeable shipwrights among us not to use those steel ballast inside plastic pipes. l think they had just installed those windows around the ship was the week l left the channel.

[@jimfitzgerald6510]

That is the best editing of a video ending that I have ever seen. I actually belly laughed at the sequence. Disclaimer: I too have suffered from Wooden Boat Syndrome and have spent many hours and dollars sanding, cutting,chipping, shaving,painting with a mostly smile on my face.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed watching it 😄

[@mk12pickle]

I suffered from Steel Boat Syndrome and in the end it really did not pay off. Increasingly I look at people restoring old wooden boats like this and kind of feel gravitation towards it...

[@argentum530]

Arabella is afloat, Tally Ho is well advanced and can almost feel the tides, and now North Star appears on my horizon and I'm here for the long voyage to wherever she's heading!

[@donnyo65]

It's amazing to think this was in the water relatively recently! I guess, back in the day, they would have just built a new one but it's great to see people prepared to preserve these old working boats.

[@motorv8N]

My hat’s off to you all for taking this on. Plus, now when I contemplate the couple soft planks in my creaky little daysailer that need some attention I don’t feel near as scared or depressed!

[@jquickj]

Excited for this content! Thanks to the whole team for making this project happen.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

You’re welcome, thanks for watching!

[@johnlinehan9053]

Love listening to James explanations.👏

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

He's great, isn't he!

[@extremelydave]

If this was Columbus' Santa Maria, I could see going to the massive amount of work you fine gentlemen are going thru. A fine ship this may be, but I would have built a replica and called it a day....that said , I will gladly watch you turn this from a pig to the belle of the ball.

[@Hackjob101]

i watched this whole video thinking this channel was a huge channel with half a million or more subscribers to see to my surprise that you guys barely have 6k!!! WOW, i gotta say this channel deservers a million, the quality of content is incredible! Will be sticking around for more!

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Thank you for the kind words! We're a very small team putting this all together, and the kind words and encouragement goes a long way!

[@Hackjob101]

@FavouriteBoatworks it reminds me alot of the shop in Beaufort NC, across the street from the maritime museum is a dry dock that repairs and brings back to life derelict wooden boats and you are able to go in and watch them work. Not sure they've done something of this magnitude but watching this video was very nastolgic of watching them repair boats as a kid there.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

@@Hackjob101 That's great to hear. If you're ever near Vancouver you're welcome to come by for a tour!

[@dariuszziejka6585]

Hi. I admire your zeal and enthusiasm. I'm waiting for the next episodes. Best regards.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

See you in the next one!

[@jimprouty6793]

We enjoy the series so far, please stop the music so we don't have to mute the entire episode.

[@Joe___R]

With as much damage as that boat has to it, I believe it would be faster and cheaper to just build a whole new boat. You can copy that one and use the 2% of her that is still worth salvaging on the new boat. As it looks now, you will have to replace 90% anyway.

[@henkgertlenten]

I thought I was listening to Paul Stamets for a second, about the mycelium

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

If only we could bring Stamets onboard 😜

[@kevinchiasson2495]

Keep up the great work! Love watching the video as I sit here up in Prudhoe Bay Alaska on the Arctic Ocean shores. Maybe i'll see it in the water up here someday! It was always one of my walking stops down at the dock in Kits. Point when i am home.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

We'd love to see her back in the arctic waters again, bring her back to her homelands.

[@andrewtiefry5990]

Keep it up I love to see these once great boats brought back to life. I love wood boats in my early 20s I rescued a 34 ft pacemaker wood boat and worked on her for a while until I moved across country. I am going to do it again but do not have a project yet.

[@gabem6362]

Amazing work but yet so sad to see the rot and awful condition of the wood ,much respect to you all

[@alexdieudonne1924]

This shaping up to be a great series

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Thank you! 🙏

[@sliekerstar]

Carriage bolts and ready rod!?! Geezuz, glad I don’t own a wooden boat! Oh, wait a minute, shit!

[@quillgoldman3908]

Yer fcuked mate!

[@davidprocter3578]

Nothing like grim and grotty work to elevate the soul and bring on appreciation of hot showers. Hats off to bilge water bill you would not get me doing that , at that boats age there would have still been old timers around that used the bilges during bad weather as a lavatory.I knew an archaeologist who contracted a nasty disease excavating a roman sewer.

[@quillgoldman3908]

Hahaha! Bilge water Bill 😂

[@aquious953]

I've seen epoxy resin (flexible version) preserve boats incredibly well. Rather costly up front but worth it.

[@jafa101]

Great episode! I can smell that rot through the internet, wow its a messy part of the restoration.

[@randallbates8891]

what a mess. good luck!

[@flightplan1000]

I spent 16 years working in a boat yard in Juneau, Alaska doing just this kind of work. Sometimes it was mucky, cold and funky but eventually you get to stop removing old rotten, wet wood and get to start adding the good stuff. These guys look like they know what they're doing although I'm not sure a kilt is good work gear...

[@quillgoldman3908]

It’s only bad for those of us who have to hold the ladder…..😳

[@Deanmachine667]

@@quillgoldman3908😂😂

[@PropRhouseofcarnage]

The work kilt performs perfectly.

[@ih302]

You guys have nerves of steel.

[@polardiscoball]

respect for all your hard work

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

🙏

[@henkgertlenten]

Looks like this is going to be a complete rebuild, situation might even be worse then Tally Ho. Will be very interesting to watch!

[@robertcarkeek8391]

LOVE IT!!

[@nickgreenwood2854]

Most of the boat will be outside the shed. Atm I wouldn't waste a gallon of petrol and a match on it. But I hope like other boat restorations it will come right in the end. I wish you luck.

[@carlthor91]

I sure hope,you have construction drawings! You are going to need them. Best wishes from Northern Manitoba.

[@madmann5040]

Good to see my local islanders bringing back history, Maybe i come down for a vist since your just down road and over the Malahat! And hey i enjoyed the opening, this why i love the island 😅

[@quillgoldman3908]

We’re on the mainland, in Richmond.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Come visit!

[@madmann5040]

@@quillgoldman3908 and here I thought you where on the lsland

[@madmann5040]

@@FavouriteBoatworks when I get over to the mainland I will for sure

[@kolsen6330]

Regular green prestone automotive antifreeze, brushed on till the wood wont take any more, will kill dry rot and prevent it from forming. Fiberglass will stick to wood so treated.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Antifreeze is a great trick to stop wood rot!

[@davidford694]

You need to have a short intro at the beginning of each episode. Took me awhile to find out that it was indeed the North Star you were working on. Remember, many watch a lot of KZbin, and it isn't easy to remember each individual video.

[@andrewbailey7999]

Hope some of it can be saved! That's an awful lot of rot!!

[@kenmcdonald7793]

Nothing harder to break up than really old concrete...enjoy!

[@timstanton6783]

the chainplates look in good shape

[@dominicbuckley8309]

So the rebuild will not be 'from the keel up' but 'from the chainplates downwards'!

[@terrulian]

Amazing.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@joesprague1464]

I predict the keel and frames and most of the planks. Then the deck beams,deck planking…

[@SeaDog-Si]

Looks like everything bar the keelson is being replaced. I remember Leo saying the same about Tally Ho and then finding out that needed replacing too! Great job guys, I'm really looking forward to upcoming videos. Is there set days the videos will be released?

[@quillgoldman3908]

Every second Friday at this point

[@mikef.1000]

Wow, that's one rotten boat... lotsa hard work but satisfying work coming up... assuming the owner wants to go ahead with the re-creation of the whole ship.

[@quillgoldman3908]

We are fortunate to have a committed owner who values the ships history.

[@vivanasperen3339]

I really wish a good respirator mask was used in projects like this!

[@Cmxx1v]

I hate to see them hitting one hammer with another. One can shatter. I’ve seen it with my own eyes which I’m lucky to still have.

[@marcatteberry1361]

That lead is probably Pre-Nuclear age. Making it worth more than Gold for electronics and stuff...

[@marksingleton7199]

Just out of interest guys, if you had the original plans would it be cheaper to build from scratch or repair when you see the amount of rot.

[@quillgoldman3908]

Yes, it would

[@ReasonsWhy1]

Ship of thesus

[@MikeAG333]

Guys, it's concrete, not cement. Cement is a constituent of concrete, and the words are not interchangeable.

[@yachtung]

What if just put several layers of grp on her bottom and couple of fresh plywood bulkheads, and leave her alone inside this shell? Was this possible?

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

She'd just keep deteriorating. Not sure if you've watched episode 3 where we uncovered a termite nest in the coach house roof, that plus the saturated wood, would have her in a pile of mulch in another few years.

[@jhai2121]

Love the concept of retention of ‘history’, & conservation of in general, but this appears to nothing much more than a ‘rotten old boat’. Tally Ho, was apparently built with timber of more appropriate type.

[@Deanmachine667]

There is some historical significance here. The north west passage would. It belong to Canada if it wasn’t for North Star.

[@jhai2121]

@@Deanmachine667 Interesting!! Would appreciate more details as to this history.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

More historical details will be coming soon. Like the previous commentor mentioned, the Vessel holds significant importance for both Canadian maritime history, the Inuit and Inuvialuit and the NW Passage.

[@bryrensexton4618]

👍!!!

[@Mrsnichols1965]

This boat was afloat simply because it wanted to be. I keep wondering if there will be enough left to repair, or if its just to get dimensions and build a new one. Hoping enough of her is left to keep that drive to stay afloat inside her, lol

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Fingers crossed we can save her 🤞

[@pmnfernando]

reverse loft the boat to get her dimensions right (im guessing you dont have any plans or table of offsets) and build a new one. this is just burning time and money in my view. yeah you might find a piece of wood you can reuse for some non structural/decorative piece, but thats it.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

The boat is being rebuilt in place, as one piece comes out, pattern gets taken and a new piece goes in.

[@KieranMckean]

A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into 💰💸

[@abraxasracing]

Steel balls from a ball mill industrial crusher....

[@joewoodchuck3824]

What is ready rod?

[@bricklesskiwi376]

Threaded rod. It's an accent thing

[@kb43ver]

Thanks for sharing it with us. I hope you go on and sometimes it will be in the state Tally Ho is right now Great work! To everybody reading this: Like, comment and subsribe!

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Thank you for the support!

[@twin40dave]

Can I ask what's a ready rod 😊

[@Deanmachine667]

It’s a length of threaded metal rod that you can cut to length to create a long “stud” (headless bolt).

[@twin40dave]

@Deanmachine667 thank you Dean 😊

[@tippin.turtle]

Seems time consuming... maybe try a match next time?🔥

[@Deanmachine667]

Some people don’t see value in preserving history and knowledge.

[@samburkhart4714]

What was the cassette tape?

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Only Poseidon knows at this point

[@samburkhart4714]

@@FavouriteBoatworks 🤣

[@johnryan2193]

I think I would have put a match to it alow tide .t

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

:(

[@sergueiothonucci1638]

😃😃😃

[@pl7868]

Chasing rot isn't my favorite thing to do really

[@speedster9622]

Who is paying the bills for this restoration?

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

What's the point? she's done.

[@jjoo6229]

The sound track needs to be replaced with a song called "The Black Flag Flying." kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqOZdZuafbiaoLM

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

We'll have to come up with our own shanties as to not get a copyright strike 😜

[@marklamontagne3919]

Considering how much is rotten, and the labor it takes to deconstruct, why not just start from scratch? Build a replica. Tally Ho is a work of art. But there's not much original on her.

[@quillgoldman3908]

Because then it’s just a replica….;)

[@louisjadot9194]

Tally Ho is a replica now as she was compleatly rebuilt. there is very little of the orignal boat reused, a part of the stern. I agree that is the way you want to do it and provide a lot of work for many and time is not a problem, and your boat will be a replica as well. Best of luck and enjoy.

[@peterandersen8684]

Why does the old dude wear a dress when he is working?

[@quillgoldman3908]

Because his cannonballs don’t fit in pants

[@mk12pickle]

Soggy Bottom hahahaha

[@citomp1240]

Looks like termite bait to me.

[@janhellinck6830]

messy job

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

Very messy 🥴

[@wakatobi2138]

fare.... ;)

[@wakatobi2138]

as in....how did she fare

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

We've got it changed 😁😅

[@Letsgofishing911]

The Bible said they will sail in rotting wood in the last days.

[@MrTallpoppy58]

Your intro is too long. Sorry it's not cute or clever, just boring. Love your video though ... very interesting. Who's the old dude ? He's great.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

That's James, he's a seasoned sailor, rigger and sail maker, he does everything from canvas repairs to 3D renderings of ships and sails.

[@peterandersen8684]

@@FavouriteBoatworks Why does he wear a dress?

[@PropRhouseofcarnage]

Because cannonballs this big don’t fit in trousers.

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

@@peterandersen8684 Gary wears a kilt, see the comment above 👆

[@peterandersen8684]

@@PropRhouseofcarnage Or he is gay

[@DarrenBoxhall]

Just build a new one. You will be rebuilding 90% of it anyway

[@MichaelCooley-se7sb]

If you replace every thing on a ship ,when your done is it still the same ship?

[@ThatOneGuyWithTheEye]

I dont understand? If they are going to rebuild it why do they just throw the wood around all over. If they are going to replace all or most of the wood why dont they just build a whole new boat

[@FavouriteBoatworks]

The vessel holds a lot of historical significance for Canadian maritime history, the inuit and the Yukon and Northwest territories. As one piece goes out, measurements are taken and a new piece is put in its place. But before any major work starts all the rot needs to be removed.