Getting Afloat with Nick Gates, Final Episode 15, Out on the Yard!

[@alexandertgtalbot]

So ends my binge... I wish there was more... Great series!

[@pottery1950]

Thank you Nick and crew for an excellent series!

[@TDoC2024]

Just binge watched this. I loved it. Great content and the boat restoration thread that carried through the series was fantastic. I now feel the urge to go get my own rotten boat.

[@fraseben]

Thoroughly enjoyed for the second time. The Sharpie sailed beautifully and it was lovely to see Wally onboard. Well done. Be great if you made some more Nick!

[@Pete-eb4ec]

My dad was a boat builder like you. He built classic Dutch open sailing boats like, Bergemermeer, Pampus, Flying Dutchman, Flying Junior and more. He would come home smelling of wood. I thoroughly enjoyed binging the 15 episodes. Thank you so much!

[@hesseldijkstra5327]

I remember as a child watching the Sharpys sailing in the regattas in the fifties on the lakes in the northern part of the Netherlands. So nice to see one again.

[@allenwhitehead7246]

I thoroughly enjoyed the series, Nick. As so many others have said, I wish there was more! Anyone who enjoyed this may also like the ongoing Sampson Boat Co. series. A British boatbuilder and sailor is restoring a wooden pilot cutter - like yacht on the west coast of the USA. With over 50 videos already shot and probably 50 more to go, It'll keep everyone binging for a while!

[@allenwhitehead7246]

Nick, I also meant to say that I absolutely LOVE what you did with that Morris Minor! Is/was that your actual daily driver? The creativity and craftsmanship is amazing!

[@clivegreenall309]

Thanks for sharing. It's been such a pleasure watching this restoration. The professional skills and dedication are inspirational and including the original owner to the re birth was a crowning moment for me. Fair winds. Regards from S Africa Clive

[@dominiqueveaudry1045]

Watching it again for a second time and enjoying every second! This is what television was made for!

[@brianwaite3292]

Thanks Nick for a wonderful series. Tracking down the original owner of your new sharpie and taking him for a sale was the perfect thing to do.

[@skookumjack]

Thanks again for re-floating this series, Very well worth a watch Nick, well done.

[@P61guy61]

Thank you for posting this. I love wood boats but don't have the time at home just yet to start a project like yours. I have to settle on my fiberglass boats for now. You really have done a good service by saving old boats, showing others how to do the same, and for providing great video. Well done indeed.

[@TheWizardOfTheFens]

Excellent series....just found it, but better late than never!

[@julianhawker2680]

Great series, thanks for uploading.

[@scottmaschino1927]

Great series. It was very informative, and I enjoyed very much watching it. Right up to the point where I finished it.

[@donotwantahandle1111]

Glad to see all that hard work paid off! The result: a beautiful boat that sails well. Can't wait for your next series!

[@advasivediamond9965]

Thanks Nick for that great series. Really enjoyed it and wished there was more to see.

[@julanesutton9626]

Wonderful entertainment and achievement. Loved the format, content, locations, Tess et al. Thanks Nick.

[@MsStrong30]

Hi Nick! Your Sharpie, Rudolf, is a fine looking boat. I'm a bit envious, enjoy!

[@tommypetraglia4688]

Wow, just wow. Riveting without a single dull moment You lead an interesting life and are a wonderful presenter

[@davidpritchard1553]

Thank you Nick for you tubing the series. Great fun to watch.

[@jackrabbit5047]

Nick, I absolutely loved the series - I had intended to string it out for Saturday mornings by the fireplace throughout the bitter Canadian winter, but, alas! I couldn't keep myself from binge-watching the whole thing whilst laid up with a cold these past two days. Now I have nothing better to do with my Saturday mornings than retreat to my workshop and attend to my own boat work.

[@glendree1]

Thank you very much Nick for uploading this great series. I have watched them all with episode 15 this weekend. I have enjoyed the boats, the people and places you visited in the UK. Thanks for the great advice and would love to see a new series from you in the future. All the best and love to Tessa a clever dog! G

[@felixmendoza4846]

VERY GREAT SERIES THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US

[@Chris.from.1950]

Nick, I have enjoyed your series thoroughly! Thanks for sharing your work with us! ❤️

[@AndyUK-Corrival]

Excellent Nick, not sure what I will do on my Sunday evenings now but then there is the Summer coming and best just get out on the water...

[@UKPete]

Great series, I really enjoyed watching them, thanks for making them available!

[@andyw248]

That was so much fun watching these 15 episodes! You certainly have a way of radiating your passion for sailboats, and I think I learned a few things from watching you working on that Sharpie. Thank you for pulling this out of the archives and sharing!

[@regkane-Pluvis]

I watch a lot of sailing type videos, yours are by far the best. Reg Kane

[@seanicky]

Ah thanks Reg, too kind!

[@davidhelsing7634]

Great series Nick. Thanks so much!

[@davidpriest913]

Thanks Nick, great series really enjoyed it. I live in Shetland and we still see the Lehmkuhl, still looks great.

[@floydraser4603]

Hi Nick, Just a note to add my further thanks to you for re-floating this series. It’s true you are a natural in front of the camera and your genuine enthusiasm comes over, adding to the enjoyment of the viewer. I know I floated this idea previously but having seen all the programs I’m sure there’s room for at least one more series on our screens? Finances and motivation aside, there is still a wealth of material to be covered apart from revisiting subjects and people from the first series, and engines, loads of engines!

[@seanicky]

Thanks Floyd, I will ask...

[@dreastman]

Amazing Series!!! Thanks so much for posting this!!!

[@seanicky]

Glad you enjoyed it!.... and thanks for saying 'thanks'!

[@umvhu]

Thank you, I've watched every episode back to back, and enjoyed them all.

[@MrJerryheffer]

Just found this series, and totally enjoyed it. What a shame that television doesn't seem to make more of this sort of programme for the boat owners of the Country surely there's a market there.

[@martineyer5336]

Great series loved watching it. You have done a great restoration. Got me motivated into sprucing up our 125. Just getting it ready for a new season of racing...

[@sirkyoj1]

Thank you for this series! I have decided to take sailing lessons and I am looking to buy a dinghy!

[@seanicky]

Excellent news Spike, glad you have been inspired by the series! I'm sure you will find the perfect dinghy to suit your budget ⛵

[@fabmanly1070]

I did go out and buy a boat so cheers. Thanks for the great story. I hope your still sailing

[@kens2114]

Just caught up to you videos, really good, thanks

[@martyjames6204]

great series - many thanks!

[@RothwellsCleaning]

Excellent series, thanks for putting up.

[@caicaraskiki]

Great series, Nick! I would love to have your wood working skills. As a former owner of a Sharpie, I wonder if that last bit of oak spline sticking up those few millimeters might be uncomfortable to sit on. It is very pretty, but wouldn't a flush deck be preferable during a pounding race? Love Rudolph. My Sharpie in Brazil was named Kiki. Thanks for everything you do!

[@nataliekeyte5527]

Absolutely loved this series. Not sure how it took me sixteen years to find it

[@seanicky]

Thanks Natalie! You would have had to had Discovery Channel back then, and it's only been on You Tube a year or so. Glad you enjoyed it! Nick

[@neleabels]

Thank you so much for this series, which I binged-watched over the last two days and which I will re-watch now and then. :) I really liked the combination of you introducing all kinds of traditional boating and you restoring a traditional boat. Being a yachtsman myself, I learned many new things about traditional boats as well as of boat building. I really loved looking at your craftsmanship and getting inspired. I really would like to do my own boatbuilding, as well. Unfortunately, I have neither a workshop nor the time nor do I live near shipable waters. But I know that I will be owning my own yacht in a couple of years and even if it won't be a traditional wooden boat, I am looking forward to doing work on all the elements of a boat: hull, rigging, engine, electricity, and I don't know what. Thanks a lot again! :) And perhaps, I don't know yet, in my retirement, I could imagine sailing a traditional dinghy made from wood across the Dutch channels and lakes.

[@alangreen5031]

Really enjoyed the series learned a lot

[@Skewjack1971]

Hi nick, I watches the series 1st time round on Discovery Channel 20 years ago and its still a great series. My son and I are in episode 4 in the white dinghy picking up a mooring at Langstone Bridge I would also love to watch the 3 missing episodes

[@larspedal]

Great series, thanks! So I dream myself back to Cornwall on Deck of a Pilot Cutter, a classic Dinghy, cornish Shrimper or a racer.

[@prof.m.ottozeeejcdecs9998]

I hope there's much morecoming, Nick! Thanks for all your videos! PLEASE, all of you, we have to help Nick to get much more clicks and likes, so SHARE!

[@seanicky]

Nice to hear you enjoyed them Prof. M. Otto Zeee.

[@prof.m.ottozeeejcdecs9998]

My pleasure, Nick! What is your background, in sailing and professional?... and no relation to Bill, I guess ;-)

[@thegreenman4898]

i really enjoyed this show nick, many thanks for uploading ;0)

[@tomv2302]

Thank you Nick for what you do. great coverage and explanation of what you are doing. In the intro part of this video @ :15 you are sailing/racing a wooden sailboat...what is it? and are there plans available to build such a beauty??

[@seanicky]

Hi Tom, it's a Norfolk Punt, developed from gun punts years ago . More here: g.co/kgs/RFxkMF

[@tomv2302]

@@seanicky Thank you Nick for the quick response. I did some binge watching and found your coverage and history in episode 2. which has led me to your friend Gail Palmer and her Sunbeam...wow

[@WidleyWesident]

Nice Sharpie! We used to have a fleet of them at my club (Langstone) on the south coast until they were all appropriated to the east coast. Maybe your next challenge is to create and fit a traditional Sharpie tiller... Happy sailing 👍🏻😀

[@terrysmith7441]

As I say to people with new cars too bad about the colour, great series, please sir More.

[@onanysundrymule3144]

Marvellous series Sir. I never had sky so missed this on Discovery channel back then. You have heaps of subscribers now, waiting for further content, so dig out that old Vhs video recorder (Lima Oscar Lima) and let us see some more of your personable and informed narrative on the subject of boats, sailing, and maritime propulsion. How is that seagull engine for example?, did the new engine in the motor boat perform as expected?, what did you do with the replanked trawler? ...... So much still yet to do and record. Here's hoping, and kind regards.

[@richardbrown4294]

A great series. I bought a Bosun dinghy and

[@promielex]

i am so bummed this is over! are there plans to make new episodes? i'ts an awesome series. as a sailor and model builder from the States I found the series excellent!

[@antiussentiment]

This series thoroughly engaged the sweetheart and I. Please tell us you still have the Sharpie?

[@seanicky]

Hi Andrew, we do yes. Proud to say the only maintenance it's needed is a few coats of varnish on the decks. Still looks good!

[@antiussentiment]

@@seanicky That's great to hear. Sharpies (the 95kg Aussie version) are still a strong class here. We hosted the nationals in Western Australia last summer. 50 odd boats. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJKcnIqPj9RqjZY

[@SirPrancelot1]

A wonderful series. Informative and inspirational. As others have said, you are a natural in front of the camera and it would be good to see what projects you are working on at the moment. Doesn't have to be a professional production. Get a video camera for your kids, or they can use their phones!

[@brinjoness3386]

excellent series

[@glypnir]

You got to be a topman. You were young, energetic, probably more skilled, and you had a cameraman and a producer. Most of the students or passengers presumably didn't get the opportunity. As always, probably the cameraman was doing more difficult climbing than you were. By the way, it's a bit late, but I recommend ear plugs for protection from snorers. I think I've watched all the videos in the series, but I'm still unlikely to restore a wooden boat. I've just bought an inflatable, which I'm planning to paddle while my wife rows - that way we can face each other. I've owned a theoretically sea capable rotomolded row boat called a virus yole, and a couple of sit on top kayaks. The rowboat was interesting but tippy, and I was too tall for tandem use of it. The sit on top kayaks were fun for exploring flooded creeks upstream from the man made lakes which are the only water around here.

[@benters3509]

Life has taught me that those who snore loudest and most also fall asleep quickest and easiest. I use earplugs at all times!

[@Quackalott]

Can I just ask a question Nick? That story of a seaman getting hit with a blaying? pin... do you know if he was a snorer by any chance? ;-)

[@Majoofi]

please do another series, perhaps build a pilot cutter next.

[@GamerKidEdits]

This was absolutely brilliant. When’s season two start?

[@nickburningham5143]

Square riggers could not sail close to the wind, but they could tack to windward. They did not furl sails and wait when the wind came from ahead.

[@sjoormen1]

How fast are this sort of sailboats?

[@SailingwiththeFoxwellFamily]

Hi Nick. Excellent series and thanks for taking the time to put them all up on KZbin, we have really enjoyed watching them. So what happened to the Sharpy, is it still on the water, did it find its way into one of the few Sharpy fleets still sailing?

[@seanicky]

Hi Foxwells, we kept the Sharpie, and it is on its trailer in the drive. We have taken it by road as far as Falmouth and explored the harbours there, and Plymouth too. In Chichester we have camped on board, and now use it to take the children to the beach. A few years ago we competed in the Sharpie Nationals at Bosham and came half way up the fleet of 30. That was mainly because it was blowing thirty knots and we had a small jib and could reef the main. It is still on the paintwork we did for the series, although last year it did have a coat on the bottom. The decks have had a couple of coats of varnish every few years. Glad to hear you enjoyed the series, rgds, Nick.

[@SailingwiththeFoxwellFamily]

Hi Nick, thats good to hear... we first came across some Sharpys on the east coast some where, I had a good old natter with the owner of one of the boats thinking at the time what a lovely design it was. However I'm one of those people that love the look of many old boats but the time pressures of modern life just push me away from them. Your a natural in front of the camera, in this day and age where any one can make a film, take us for example!!! you should have a go. I'm sure we wouldn't be the only ones interested in seeing the things that your currently working on and its surprisingly good fun to do.

[@Dubhain82]

Please make more videos of boat restoration! I saw the series first time out. It was my favourite show. Become a youtuber.

[@brucebaldy]

very stable

[@caicaraskiki]

Sharpies are alive and well in Europe. We used to have one in Rio de Janeiro, where I learned to sail on a Sharpie. Here is the 2019 Sharpie Championship page. www.sharpies.org.uk/gallery/nggallery/sharpies/2019---European-Championship

[@candisbrendel7396]

CUP OF JOE= COFFEE

[@candisbrendel7396]

CHECK YOUR BOOTS FOR SPIDERS MATES!! JUST SAYING

[@candisbrendel7396]

GUNWALL NEEDS TO BE TALLER

[@GamerKidEdits]

This was absolutely brilliant. When’s season two start?

[@GamerKidEdits]

This was absolutely brilliant. When’s season two start?

[@GamerKidEdits]

This was absolutely brilliant. When’s season two start?