Lead Casting Cleanup/Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop, S2-E16

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Thank you for the museum tour and the visit to the youth boat building program. There is much to learn when you build a boat and many disciplines that are involved and for youth to learn these will keep wooden boat building alive for many years to come.

[@peterforsythe3643]

Agree, that’s such a fantastic story

[@davidc6510]

Great cleanup of the keel as well as the Q&A on the pour. The youth program and museum were nice tidbits added to this episode. Thanks for sharing!

[@sheiladunk7583]

( Roly )... uk..The way you put the info. over is spot on,also I think the construction sections are excellent.thank you.

[@TonyHammitt]

I'd love to get out to those museums, I could probably spend weeks there, just fascinated. Someday!

[@barneygoogle2720]

Congratulations and gratitude to Tom Brandl and Joe Filipowski for their initiative and dedication to this wonderful program that is benefitting so many young people. Best wishes to both of you for many productive and rewarding years ahead helping these kids' minds to grow as fast as their bodies.

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

The keel came out terrific and pretty much as you planned it. It looked like you could of used another 100 lbs. of lead for the pour. Well done Captain. Great time at the school for the visit. It's always fun to see young people being introduced to the skills of boat building. It is a trade I hope we never lose.

[@clydecessna737]

That Marine seems a wonderful, wonderful person: Saving those kids one at at time is heroic.

[@aaron6841]

What an awesome man the founder of the boat school was!

[@albertotoledo7917]

Marvelous video!! Thanks for sharing this amazing story! Greetings from Brazil!

[@boatham]

Bob. This was a great video blog. Norfolk and Newport News are both just about my back door. I lived for a number of years in that area and visited the Mariners Museum many times. thank you for showcasing the tidewater Wooden boat school . Since so many of the public school systems have dropped having any type of wood shop instruction the youth are not exposed to the hands on instruction and mechanics of attaching two boards together. Thanks again.. I have a copy of John Brooks plans for the Somes Sound 12 & 1/2 which is the next boat I want to undertake. As the Haven and the Somes Sound are similar and use the same hardware and keel , I am fascinated with your approach. By the way I did get to take a class in Glued Lap streak construction under John Brooks at the Wooden Boat School in Brookline Maine.

[@dennisdownes9319]

Great video Bob! From the nano-second, your camera flashed that hull, I knew it was Herreshoff. I was so glad when you took a minute to give a little more detail. Living near Bristol Rhode Island, we never get tired of seeing the great ships and boats Capt Nat designed! DD

[@mrklyles]

Another excellent video Bob. I also enjoyed seeing the workshop and museums. All the parts are sure coming together.

[@woodpeckerbinojpathrose3068]

Thanks

[@hawazz1]

Thanks for the new video! Looking forward to see the planking process

[@adam8642]

What an excellent endeavour by Tom and his team. Superb.

[@abelincoln95]

The anonymity of sitting behind a computer keyboard seems to bring the worst comments in some people. From all indications, you are very responsible & methodical in your craft. You are doing some awesome work & I appreciate the ride along with you.

[@johnlinehan9053]

Tom Brandl, what a great guy! Semper Fi

[@bxw0624]

Thanks Bob. Another great episode.

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

Nice Story! I grew up In Chesapeake, VA and spent many days on the water from the age of 12 I have owned a boat of some sort and still do. I discovered airplanes at age 15 and put my boat in dry dock for a few years. Over years I have owned all kinds of boats from a 45 foot Irwin Ketch Sail Boat to a Styrofoam Snark to a 26 Grady White. And a Barber Boat. I now live in West Texas, it is not like North West river or the Elizabeth River or the ICW. All we have here are lakes so it will have to do.

[@janote641]

Great episode......

[@richardsiddon610]

Thankyou for sharing.

[@johnshoureas1629]

Thank you for a great video.

[@rlong9830]

Hope you are doing well. While at the Mariners Museum did you by chance get to see the Crabtree Gallery?

[@TheArtofBoatBuilding]

Hi Robert, I did. What amazing attention to detail he and his wife had. Outstanding museum.

[@rlong9830]

I recently found your channel. During this time while my family is fighting COVID, it has given me something else to focus on. A bit of a mental rest outside of our whoas.

[@mattiasfagerlund]

Bob, love this series! If you're wondering why the panoramic shots look jerky, that's typically because you film at one FPS (say 25) and create your finished video at another FPS (say 29.95). Every second or so, there is no frame to render, so the previous frame is repeated - or the other way around, a frame is skipped. Try setting all your equipment to using the same FPS!

[@jackbao1231]

Hi Bob, quick question, can I use the old way which you did in episode 3, a skillet to melt the lead and do multiple time pour to the mod? because I don't have the skill to make a tank to melt machine, thanks for your time sir.

[@TheArtofBoatBuilding]

Unfortunately no, by making small pours the lead will have multiple cold joints that could fail. Thanks for watching!

[@robertbamford8266]

Love the detail as your project develops. I did wonder about the way you handle the lead. I had a run- in with some WWI toy soldiers when I was about 4, which made quite an impression on me. I assume there’s lots of hand washing going on behind the scenes, but I wondered about the dust from filing and even from the hammer drill trimming. Anyway, looking forward to seeing planking.

[@the_real_bin_chicken]

I've been waiting to see this one! :-) i am planning to build one of those boats. g'day from Australia!

[@Tim_G_Bennett]

Any idea what timber you are going to use? Fellow Aussie here and with the price of timber it looks like I will be building a boat from Tassie oak. I don't know how good a timber Tassie oak is for boats.

[@the_real_bin_chicken]

Tim Bennett at this point I’m still trying to figure that out. So far my main contenders are spotted gum for the frames and keel and possibly hoop pine for the planking. However this may change depending on timber prices and availability. I am in south Aussie, so we don’t have the same resources here that you can get in NSW/VIC/QLD. Also getting quarter sawn or even logs to saw here is pretty difficult.

[@Tim_G_Bennett]

@@the_real_bin_chicken Fair enough, I live on King Island so any timber costs another $140ish a cubic meter to get here, so it might well be a boat made from 150x50mm stockyard rails, they are surprisingly good quality.

[@the_real_bin_chicken]

@@Tim_G_Bennett nice one. if it keeps the costs down and still makes a great boat. ide say go for it! :-)

[@ClaytonwFirth]

Hi gents, another fellow Aussie here. I’ve not built anything of this scale yet but have done a few kayaks and paddle boards. I found paulownia very nice for this application, with very similar properties to cedar.

[@АлександрРыбаков-д2ы]

Очень познавательно. Спасибо.

[@shanebba2]

Thanks for your wonderful videos Bob. Really enjoy them iam learning alot. Happy new year

[@mjschaeffer2112]

How long do think it took the lead to fully cool.

[@TheArtofBoatBuilding]

My best guess is 4-5 hours. We finished casting before 1pm and around 5 I check on it and it could be touched with a bare hand. It was in the low 30's (degrees) that day so it of course cooled faster.

[@grahamwheelock7497]

The guys running the program are saints you building a barrel back first finish the herreshoff boat then you can dream of a next build

[@barneygoogle2720]

"Dilemma" looks as if it would have been challenging to handle with it's tiny cockpit.