The Last Shipyard in the Tagus River, Jaime da Costa's Shipyard.

[@patrikcalloch7953]

le Portugal possede une richesse exceptionnelle de types de bateaux ; une visite au magnifique musée maritime de lisbonne donne parfois l impression que toute l histoire de la construction traditionnelle en europe y a coexisté.

[@geoffreylotz3661]

Amazing to see some of those vessels restored, sad to see how many are rotting away....an important part of Portuguese culture and heritage, for sure...thanks for the video, much appreciated. Muito obrigado...

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks for watching Geoffrey, and long live Jaime Costa! 💪

[@arturbenatti2785]

Think you for showing us Jaime's shipyard.

[@berndbanken3256]

Thanks lot for your tour! These places habe a special aura for me. The old ships fading away ober centuries, glued in the mud- what did they see, what kind of water did they smell and how many feet dif they feel? A Many months i live on a very nice island in the Atlantic ocean: Ile de Noirmoitier south of Nantes. There you find the same neglected ships, fading away over years. At the end there will be only the oak ribs and rusty engines. Due to the tide more and more mud will pile up around the wrecks and small plants start to grow. A rainy day? Better not to visit - the mood could be damaged...😮‍💨

[@MinSredMash]

The very same craftsmanship, but such different boatbuilding traditions in this region

[@carlosagm73]

Obrigado pelo vídeo. Nesse tipo de visita virtual o 360 ficou top. Abraço

[@TheBoatRambler]

Obrigado Carlos!

[@jamiecampbell6547]

I remember my visit with pleasure!

[@bertlbarm4374]

thank you so much for showing this wonderful boats and giving that good background informations

[@TheBoatRambler]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@josephmalek6541]

Hi: Liked the boat yard tour a lot. Also liked the 360 presentation. This time it was very smooth and seamless. Nice...

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thank you very much Joseph!

[@petejohnson6498]

Thanks for the tour!

[@johnb5112]

A great video of an amazing place. It is great to see these traditional boats being maintained and I hope the yard continues to do so for many years. I enjoyed the 360 format, although it does take a bit of getting used to.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi John! It might take a bit to get used to but once you do you'll find yourself trying to pan on regular videos! At least I do! 😅

[@MP_TROLL]

My father was born not to far from this ship yard and used to trap birds when he was a kid there too. It’s been 60 years since he has seen this place.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Could you show him the place with this virtual tour?? 😉

[@MP_TROLL]

@@TheBoatRambler I did it made him cry

[@frankjoziasse7914]

Really lovely video! The sort of place where you could wander around for days and see more and more detail. History, craftsmanship, decay, renewal. The 360 format was perfect to give a real flavour of the place, felt like I was walking around there myself. Thank you for showing us this important piece of Portugal's maritime history!

[@TheBoatRambler]

Glad you enjoyed it Frank!

[@matiasalberto7]

Beautiful!!

[@MManel]

Fantastic ...

[@DavidHolmgren-vg7yz]

It's very interesting boats. I like the Varino class...it has nice lines.

[@raytheron]

What an amazing place, and Jaime da Costa is a wonderful man for the great work he does. It's heartbreaking to see such beautiful boats in such a terrible state. I hope most if not all of them can be rescued. As for the format of the videos -- normal is fine by me! Muito obrigado, Teo!

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks Ray

[@davidedellorto2882]

Great.

[@chasingsunsets380]

Such a fascinating place, thanks

[@TheBoatRambler]

It really is! 😉

[@XSiLx2007]

This a very interesting video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and concerns about the boatyard. The Portuguese people are loosing the tradition of making boats and the use of the sea and river

[@TheBoatRambler]

That is very true although here in the Tagus river and estuary there seems to be more traditional boats around than 30 years ago.

[@XSiLx2007]

@@TheBoatRambler I don't think so. Furthermore. We, the Portuguese, are losing a lot of things related to boats, namely, the technology used in the construction of wooden boats. Do not forget that in times gone by, we had the most advanced technology in the world that allowed us to make discoveries that still affect everyone. Today, people who work with wooden boats can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand.

[@sergioramiao4674]

Very good. I loved it 👍

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thank you very much!

[@CristianSzwarc]

amazing place, my two cents about 360: Is very interesting to look around BUT because you are moving there is no much time to look all around to see all the interesting bits, and when you describe something, one may be looking to another place and is hard to move fast to see what are you talking about, I super enjoyed your sailing 360 where is easy to just look here and there without much detail and enjoy the ride. For a place like this with so much history and amazing things to see like the hemp in between the boards you may be better using a regular video where you direct the audience's focus where you know the interesting bits are, thanks for the amazing videos.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks for the feed back. If you pause the video you can still pan around and once you have seen everything just press play again.

[@CristianSzwarc]

@@TheBoatRambler oh! I learnt something new thanks. I'm sure you will find the correct mix of 360s and regular videos to get everyone entertained and educated, your English, calm voice, video quality and pace are very enjoyable to watch. It's also nice to see others in your videos (from time to time, like in the camping ones or the random interactions) and get a glimpse of how things are outside the camera (catching you speaking Portuguese is a window outside the video). obrigado!

[@theresnobodyhere5778]

loved that tour of the yard on a phone i find it fast and easy to pan up down all around if you use two fingers to control the viewing ,the yard needs to be saved its industrial history and culture from generations maybe should be formed into a trust or charity visitors centre which does take lots of money to set up funding from government sources if the owners dont ask they wont get

[@TheBoatRambler]

Jaime's son has been working in the yard for a few years now, we all hope he will keep it running.

[@theresnobodyhere5778]

@@TheBoatRambler strange coincidence my little 18 ft boat was designed by a man named Da Costa think his first name was Leonardo

[@DavidHolmgren-vg7yz]

You need to do an indepth video on a nice Varino class. Go over the rigging and operation on the boat.

[@jonb8481]

A very interesting visit Teo, great to see these yards that are dying out fast. Personally i would prefer normal format for this type of video. I got a little lost as to exactly which boats you were talking about, i was looking elsewhere! Keep up the good work 👍

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks Jon b!

[@BensWorkshop]

Alas I can only see it in a warped view which is a shame. I wonder if anyone else is having trouble. I do like the painting on those boats. Also I do prefer normal format as I can't make use of the 360.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Ben! That is very strange as YT identifies the video as 360 automatically there shouldn't be any warp effect whatsoever! When you choose the Image quality do you see a "S" at the end of the image quality setting like 2160"S"4K? On the phone you can't watch it on a Facebook window for example, it needs to be opened on YT directly. the phone also detects it automatically. It's a shame you can't see it in 360 because it's such a nice feature. I find myself trying to pan on regular videos nowadays....

[@BensWorkshop]

@@TheBoatRambler I do not get the S. It's a CODEC thing. KZbin might recognise it, but that doesn't mean it can put the decoding code on my laptop. I wonder if anyone else is have the same problem?

[@BensWorkshop]

@@TheBoatRambler I do get the options with an S on the end though. In fact all the resolutions are followed by an S on these videos.

[@01MrAfonso]

Boas, Adorei o video. Queria perguntar se sabe o nome das outras embarcações "abandonadas" a estibordo do Castro Junior e que tipo de embarcação, por exemplo, se era um bote ou varino.

[@TheBoatRambler]

A proxima vez que passar no estaleiro vou tentar saber os nomes. 😉

[@01MrAfonso]

Obrigado pela atenção. No caso de saber também entretanto de que tipo de embarcação se trata, acho seria interessante. No meu ponto de visto, acho que se trata um varino, uma galeão (Nova Alcacer), um bote e um bote-trata. @@TheBoatRambler

[@paulvandal4444]

Once again, a great video. I originally subscribed while following your Goat Island Skiff build. I was hoping you might get involved in another build from scratch. Are there any projects in the shipyard you can follow? That woild be awesome to see and document. Thanks Theo! The 360 was cool. It would be great to see more in the future where it lends itself to what you want to convey.

[@TheBoatRambler]

I will have a word with Jaime, the shipyard master to see what's on the cards... 😉

[@hurdurdur7rl696]

What do you think is the max length of a boat that could be lateen or lug rigged and be still comfortably handled by 1 person if needed?

[@TheBoatRambler]

well....I don't think I can give you a specific size but I can tell you that Bruno goes solo on Princesa many times and it's a 3ton, 9 meter, 45sqm main sail boat. On 15kts sustained winds he thinks twice about going out solo but with a reef on he can do it safely. Remember that these boats have no deep keel nor ballast tho. Of course Bruno has sailed lateen sails for a few years now and he is a very good skipper. Lug sails I don't know...there is no such sails around this area. The Moliceiros boats up north do use Lug sails but I can't say much about them.

[@johnvrebos4629]

Sorry my friend, no offence, the content is interesting but the 360 video stands in the way. No extra value as well as bad quality images for what could have been shot a lot better with a normal camera. Keep on going, I like what you are showing us from Portugal.

[@benalla39]

Couldn't watch to the end, the music was just too annoying. Nearly turned the sound off, but it's 50% story...

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Brendan, any music in particular (there are 6 different ones on the video) or just in general?

[@benalla39]

@@TheBoatRambler I first noticed it in the graveyard when I couldn't hear your words over the music, but in fact I think the 360 format is close to sensory overload already and adding any music on top is just distracting me from navigating, watching and listening all at the same time. Maybe if I had some hours up on the format I would feel differently?

[@TheBoatRambler]

@@benalla39 You are right about the graveyard bit in particular. There was some wind noise so I activated the "Voice isolation" feature at 50'%. it is supposed to cut by 50% all the surrounding noise but it sometimes doesn't work too well and the voice seems to be affected too. Should have watched the whole video after rendering too! Thanks for the feedback.

[@benalla39]

@@TheBoatRambler Hi Again Teo. Also he guided tour format in 360 makes me feel a bit like the dumb kid in the class who never knows where they should be paying attention. I get my attention drawn to something that isn't what you are looking at, which is the point of 360 and then I hear you saying "over there", realise you are probably pointing at something even though I cant see you, and scrabble around trying to find you in frame, but of course sometimes I"m not fast enough and I miss whatever it was. If I was really with you I would be in your three dimensional headspace and have audible cues to where you were and where you were pointing and I would have no learning curve for how to swivel my head to where you are pointing. in 360 video without having spent time to master the navigation, it makes me feel like a klutz. It worked much better on the skiff with no music. That felt like I was really there.

[@seppoe]

Very interesting to see this yard. When I have time to watch this again I will pause the video for more interesting boats and then swivel around… and one thing more, this 360 format allows viewer to look ’beyond the screen’ - I’ve watched some videos by other people where something interesting is just on the left or right of screen… also a bit more details of boats, perhaps you could get Jaime to tell a bit about all this. Not sure if YT translation works from Portuguese to English if needed. Other thing: here in Finland there are two or three schools that teach boatbuilding (mostly though pensioned codgers that want to build a retirement boat…) - aren’t there any in Portugal? It’s such a shame that wooden boatbuilding skills are lost….