The Building of "Frosty Morn" Section 3: Decking, Fitting Out, and Launching

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The Building of "Frosty Morn" Section 3: Decking, Fitting Out, and Launching
Section 1: Lofting & Setup - Section 2: Setup and Planking - Section 3: Decking, Fitting Out, and Launching

[@seayak]

We are the current owners of Frosty Morn (now Northern Traveller) and are happy to report that as she approaches the age of 30 she still looks and performs like a new boat, thanks to the quality of materials and the techniques and care used in her construction. McClelland is a master boatbuilder. I have posted two videos of her under sail - search "starboard tack at Hecla Island" and "double reefed off Hecla Island"

[@pironiero]

good

[@williamstrong2068]

Hi, it is now in Rivière du loup in eastern Québec. Do you know the phrf for that boat?

[@carmelpule1]

I come from a family of traditional boat builders and so I do know craftsmanship. This is mastercraftsmanship at its best. The tone of the man's voice projects peace of mind and a good heart and confirms what Enstein once said, that sailling and violin playing are the noblest of pleasures. This man is a noble gentleman indeed

[@mikemagnum7987]

Thank you for allowing us to be a part of such an incredible build! I can't express how much I enjoyed watching and dreaming......;)

[@rodsnap]

Hi, should have gone to bed hours ago but started to watch and could not stop . Lovely to watch a craftsman at work. Like all highly skilled people you make it look so easy. Thanks for posting this. Regards, Rod

[@davidallen9526]

Outstanding Sir. I think the true mark of a master is in his mixture of craftsmanship and artistry. She is a thing of beauty! Truly appreciate you sharing this with us. Blue Sky's and Following Sea's.

[@inthenameofjustice8811]

Always great to watch an artist at work and would love to see much more. Thank you.

[@mmanut]

I am a contractor by trade out of Boston Massachusetts. It was a real pleasure watching you build a beautiful boat. Your handwork is second to none. Now if I could only teach my carpenters to take a little bit of pride in their work, I showed this video to my guys at lunch time to see if I could get a little pride out of them. I hope it works. Beautiful boat. Fantastic job. Vinny

[@thomasbuzzi3234]

Incredible lofting and pattern work. Amazing what ONE man can do. Just a pleasure to watch. Having built lesser craft on my own, this was a treat to watch!

[@yotozme]

Beautiful boat and excellent show of craftsmanship. I only build boats like that in my dreams. Rest in peace Jim, regards from Norway.

[@mmanut]

You have a talent that is slowly giving way to the modern boat building techniques. I hope you have a young man to help you out in your shop that is smart enough to pick your brain during the day. You my friend are very talented. It was a real pleasure to watch you work. Vinny

[@MBdrummer3288]

My man, you’ve built one hell of a sweet little boat there. Very very nice. I want one!

[@andredc9583]

Amazing video with great workmanship and detail!! She is truly a very beautiful boat!

[@dinos8557]

fantastic video series. I have built 3 watercraft using epoxy resin and marine ply. A 16' skiff and two kayaks and your video has given me incentive to build again. What a beautiful ship you have given life to.

[@dinos8557]

+santard Where can a set of plans to build this boat be purchased?

[@vincent7520]

Great job. Thank you for posting. Having spent 5 years restoring a 33 ft. sailboat from top of the mast to keel I know this how much work you had under your belt !… Everybody watching this video should leave a comment thumbing you up !!!…

[@coffeefish]

He makes it look effortless. Very nice work.

[@Ronnibach1]

WoW! Thank you. Awesome video, fun to watch. Such A Beautiful Sailboat!

[@ronaldreed7698]

Very nice boat, fantastic workmanship and you have a perfect voice for narration. Beautiful boat.

[@UnbeltedSundew]

Absolutely gorgeous boat. Beautiful workmanship.

[@ZacVaper]

Only 6 months, that's incredible. Nice work.

[@MrJamesdean435]

it was a pleasure to watch you build a this boat the detail was great thanks

[@dannymullane9252]

Hi.the work you have done is absolutely wonderful. And I can see you are enjoying it thanks for your video.

[@magdyzahran8804]

Thank you very much for your wonderful video, showing how to build a boat. You are very professional and surely you knew what to do. God bless those skilled hands.

[@MikeSmith-rg2nv]

Extraordinary work. A master craftsman. Thoroughly enjoyable

[@hangemhigh2000]

"Starting to look like a boat here". Looks like a really fast boat here. Great job, I learned a lot just watching your video. You confirmed my uses of fiberglass cloth for cracking to. Thanks for sharing.

[@loloaqici82qb4ipp]

Loved the whole process from beginning to end. Beautiful little boat.

[@mmanut]

Absolute gorgeous boat. Fantastic craftsmanship. You have some talent sir.

[@BusterGasket]

A real masterclass! Thanks very much. The tip about using bungee cords for tensioning fibre glass weave is something I'll use in future.

[@travisbarlow2446]

I enjoyed it very much. You are certainly a craftsman. Thanks for posting.

[@VAdu56]

Magnifique travail !! réalisé dans les règles de l' Art, comme on dit en France... Super Bravo pour cette construction solide , et superbe à la fois, que le bois est joli... ! c'est à la hauteur des riviera...!! Bravo !

[@VAdu56]

Wonderful work !! realized in the rules of the Art, as they say in France ... Super Bravo for this solid construction, and superb at the same time, that the wood is pretty ...! it is up to the riviera ... !! Well done !

[@Camperhollow]

That's pretty incredible. I enjoyed watching this.

[@gamatseo88]

1hocdem

[@seayak]

Hello: I was the third owner of this boat - owned and sailed her for seventeen years, from 1998 to 2015. This boat outpointed everything i ever sailed against. She was a sailor's sailboat! Her deep foils and hull shape made her unbeatable to weather. I sold her on for a boat with more headroom and cruising amenities, but still miss the sound of waves slapping against the cold-molded hull, and the way she would accelerate "through the gears" as she caught the wind. The fractional rig, a midcockpit traveller, radiused in two planes, with a windward sheeting car, and a rigid vang made it easy to tweak the mainsail shape for most wind/heading combination. With a relatively small foretraingle, you had to fly a spinnaker to get the most out of her downwind, and in really stiff winds her relatively light (750 lb) ballast made her somewhat tender, so you had to reef early and depower the main in gusts. She received annual coats of varnish to her topsides as UV protection for the clear finished glass/epoxy layer on the outside of the hull, and painted surfaces were redone as required with Interlux Briightside. The only structural work I did was to re-skin the rudder with an extra layer of 10 oz glass set in clear-setting epoxy, to thwart off some incipient checking of the wood - otherwise she needed nothing beyond paint, epoxy, varnish and Cetol to maintain her in Bristol condition. The boat was as sound when sold as the day she rolled out of McClelland's shop. The cold-molded hull was bulletproof and never leaked a drop, nor did the decks or windows. His build quality was second to none. Thanks for posting this video - I passed on my CD copies of the entire build, along with her plans as drawn by Peter Dunsford, of Gary Mull's Naval Architecture firm, to the new owner when I sold her on.

[@jasonsweet1868]

What a beautiful boat the transom was the finest I have ever seen thanks very much for the best how to video on here

[@keithwignall1428]

Gorgeous boat, beautifully built!

[@dngoodchild]

Brilliant! A fiine combination of traditional boatbuilding skills with modern materials.

[@cuzzinyes]

A true craftsman, you have created a beautiful work of art. Thank you for sharing.

[@TheBoabby50]

Magnificent skills and workmanship. I take my hat off to you. Wish I had another too, for your easy style of narration from the auld country. Thank you for sharing. Boab

[@jonnydarke]

Thank you so much, a really beautiful piece of floating art

[@paulryan4939]

Wonderful work and I thought at first it was been made in Northern Ireland Thank You.

[@prolific9002]

"I really can't stress enough, doing as much work as possible outside the boat." Words of wisdom.

[@elizabethslifka4750]

As with most things with boat building if it looks right it is right . I like this mans attitude I worked at shipyards many years always liked men with laid back way of things it makes the work much more enjoyable

[@Stef1357tsag]

συγχαρητηρια, καλη παρουσιαση και εξαιρετο αποτελεσμα , μπραβο!

[@TheTwopeesinapod]

Just to say thanks a million for the well presented video. I have a Lotus 10.6 and it was built using a similar method. Lots and lots of hours!!!!

[@polygamous1]

thanks for posting n enjoy your boat after the hard work its well deserved

[@markpalmquist]

Thank you for sharing this video! I am a furniture maker, but have always wanted to build a boat.

[@pacerodi]

What a perfection! Its a work of art what you did.

[@cornflake73]

thank you for allowing us to view your work by video. I would love to build a boat like that but I am just a wood butcher with little experience. I am of the persuasion that we need more wood boats built.

[@7891-r7l]

that was a lot of work I hope you got paid nicely for your efforts and thanks for taking the time beside building it to put together this video . Thanks so much it was fun watching.

[@senormucho7846]

Wow. Thanks for that. You are a true artist.

[@alansweet2221]

I know this was in the80's as I visited him at his shop in Kenora Ontario, Canada . The amazing thing was that he thought to video tape it at the time.

[@sandercurtis1847]

You are an extremely impressive and articulate man!

[@paulbull1993]

Enjoyed the three episode, thank you.

[@sergeymaksimov1611]

Молодец - в ней частица его души!!!

[@JohnSmith-yk2bk]

All by himself ..This was awesome . Thank you for sharing

[@sirguillaumecote]

Wow, that is a lot of skills and patience, thanks for sharing

[@arturfisher]

Excellent demonstration of great work, I really enjoyed watching all three of Your videos, they helped a lot in understanding the process. Thanks so much!

[@murilocarvalho4976]

Verdadeira obra de ARTE. Mestre engenheiro de alto nível. Obrigado por compartilhar

[@pauljewitt1445]

Really enjoyed your videos a true craftsman at work a work of art !!!

[@snoozinglion8596]

That was great! Beautiful boat, thanks for sharing

[@waynehackel3005]

sure enjoyed that, you are a real craftman thanks

[@lynsilva6172]

Wonderful video. Just wish I had shop, tools etc to do it. Maybe one day!

[@joeclarke9782]

Exceptional video. I feel like a slacker for formerly just spraying hullls/boats with fiberglass.

[@jaimeantoniofreitaslinhare7054]

Um dos video mais legal...não me canso de olhar....É inspador ...parabéns!!

[@seayak]

To Nacho Leon: In answer to your question, the boat has three thru-hulls, one on the starboard side of the engine for cooling water, one below the port galley cabinet which is the intake for the sink and head, and and below the starboard galley cabinet which is the sink drain. All three have bronze seacocks with a 90 degree rotation. Notwithstanding the boats racy appearance (and performance!), she is a capable cruiser with a galley, full marine head, and four berths. She has taken a number of week-long cruises on Lake of the Woods and Lake Winnipeg.

[@fanch56740]

Très beau travail. Bravo et merci.

[@dalex690]

beautiful workmanship, great job111

[@robbsantos7050]

thank you this journey.. excellent journey...

[@mauricioalbertopadin9639]

Felicitaciones BUEN TRABAJO BUEN BARCO...!!

[@OriginalEric]

I really enjoyed this series, thank you

[@jaimeantoniofreitaslinhare2861]

Parabens ,trabalho de luxo ,muito bom !!!😃😃😃 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@MrWhatnext]

Man that is some nice work.

[@lgallant]

Thanks for sharing this great video series! Beautiful boat!

[@alialobaidi2589]

beautiful boat, all the best.

[@treeapron]

Great video. Thank you for sharing.

[@dejuvena]

Excelente muy buen trabajo felicidades !!

[@buildingsailboats4549]

Thank you for sharing, very interesting to see and your voice is also very nice.

[@GuitarraLisboa1977]

Congratulations, from Portugal. Very nice work and very nice video.

[@matzoman3401]

very nice to see! Thanks for sharing!

[@handyandy345]

stunning work, love watching these and learning more.

[@gj3072]

Great job!! And I mean both the boatbuilding and the video.

[@edstimator1]

awesome build

[@bobtaylor975]

That's awsome grate job thanks for the video

[@chochi17]

Отличная работа!!!

[@mvinci145]

WOW!!! That was truly awesome. Im so impressed. I only wish i had an oz of your skill.

[@Arsipel123]

thank you so much its great job have a nice sailing

[@fatgammon1]

brilliant and well narrated

[@PhilosopherRex]

Amazing. A true master at work.

[@rushd45]

Excellent video, shows the beautiful craftsmanship and care taken with the building of the boat. Any more in the works?

[@sigurdouroboros4060]

An inspiration. Thank you.

[@hh6633hh2]

gxhb

[@terrybullock3140]

What breathtaking craftsmanship! I've just watched these in absolute awe of your work - single-handed, too! Is there any recent footage of the boat?

[@ggreene245]

Beautiful boat...

[@jarrodmartin3630]

Is there a need to use fiberglass cloth over a wood boat IF it is only in warm weather climate? Or in salt water?

[@jasoncatt]

Simply superb!

[@vladimiralexandrov8549]

Интересное и полезное видео. Спасибо!

[@Borduna354]

Very, very, good job. Congratulations!

[@camyoung453]

Great job, good to see suck great woodworking

[@makhoe1]

that is a very beautiful boat

[@neilscoelho]

Very nice i must admit.. Great Job Man.

[@dannyboyarevalo7511]

thanks for the video... helps a lot,, im gonna build one soon,,

[@ViolentKisses87]

That was beautiful. I bet parting with such a labor is difficult