I have a copy of the 1964 edition of the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship. It was awarded to me in November 1974 for getting the highest ever recorded mark in a seamanship exam at HMS Excellent. I was 15 at the time. All your videos are a joy to watch. Keep them coming.
All you videos are very understandable for the french Mediterranean speaking sailor I am . Very interesting aesthetic and so nicely presented . So different from our " Mare nostrum " . This way of sailing is sadly impossible on our crowded shores . Thanks a lot .
It is Tusday following Easter and your video has been perfectly timed; and though a year later, your comments are still current. The pandemic is making lives different, and the vaccination frenzy seems to create serious chasms in communication. I don't sail anymore due to age and health, but build model boats instead. Keeping busy is the key, as the social bubble for my wife and I is small. Thank you Roger, you have brightened my day, and have joined our bubble. Regards, Rodney Vancouver Island Canada
Hi Roger, I used to be a Bosun in the Danish navy (and have been teaching seamanship both in the navy and in civilian life) It's a real pleasure to see you work 👍 I do love your videos. Thank you so much 🙏
I just received my copy of the 1937 Admiralty Manual of Seamanship. It is a truly amazing document of its time. It details the rigging of a square rig sailing ship, how to tie a battleship to a quayside, what the various etiquettes are for saluting an Admiral are (let fly your sails, stand and salute), semiphore and what the various bosun's whistle signals stand for. The flags of the world's navies features the German Navy and Merchant Navy flags with dirty great swatikas on them! It was so cheap and is in pristine condition - highly recommend you get a copy.
I enjoy your videos very much. I wanted a sailboat when I was about 14. I didn't get one until I was in my late 30s. It is a small one man racer, a small fiberglass boat with a lot of sail made in Toledo Ohio in the early 60s. I would love to sell it and try and find a wooden boat like yours but I will probably have to settle for fiberglass again. but I defiantly need something bigger so I can teach my grand children to sail.
Film time 19:25- a coat of shellac to seal thread ? Now that you've shared a couple 'at home' tales, we know our skipper more as a neighbor. So neighbor, when will you take us along on one of your favorite walks ? Or include us in for a neighborhood bbq..or-- ? My favorite part of this presentation? The rattling if your stoves coal- wood & pouting of your glass & the puff of an an old couch as you settled down.We all know that precious moment when the burn is just right, the glass replenished & all is right
Many of us boat owners used the lock down for spring outfitting and attending to many delayed projects on our vessels. One of the few positive outcomes of this horrible situation. Hopefully next year we'll have less time but a healthier world.
Thank you Roger, as someone fairly new to sailing I much appreciate your insight into boat maintenance, and your excellent series of enjoyable videos, especially here in the depths of a Canadian Prairie winter, and no hope to sail ‘till the Spring. Fair winds.
As I no longer sail or partake in any preparations and maintenance of a boat, or it's sailing. It is lovely to have your videos and your particular setting to continue the lifestyle. Excellent videos and mostly traditional maintenance. Thank you so much.
Hi Roger, I was taught to sail by a boating purist, and pardon me if I put you in the same bracket. Your use of the correct boating terminology is for me, so refreshing to hear. Your manual of seamanship was a joy tp behold. I have an old Reeds Companion, that having seen your manual, must have "borrowed" much of it's content, but without it, I would not be. I am for all my sins a Yachty and spend most of my time surrounded by "boating holidaymakers".I ought to add that my wife and I sailed all the way to Greece, 2003, visiting every island in between, and we keep her there, it's much warmer, but I will always say going below, port starboard, and NOT downstairs left & right !!!!!!! I trust you get what I mean. Standards are not just slipping, they are heading south with much gusto .............Please keep up the good work. Kind Regards, Barnacle Bern SY Cadbri.
Hello Roger. Love Your channel. Your trips are voyages of dreams! Small thing to comment on, very small, but can have huge consequences. I have seen the pin on the shackle work out on a active anchorage. I suggest a bit of stainless wire through the head of the pin around the U part of the shackle. Met an owner who lost his sailboat down in Mexico on the pacific side for the lack of a bit of wire? Thirty years later was still lamenting, For the lack of a nail the shoe was lost... . jimmy
Roger, Thank you from the Chesapeake Bay where we are in lock down as well. You have motivated me to head to the shop and crank out another 6 feet of baggywrinkle... Be Well
Thanks Roger. I don,t own a television set and I,ve not watched a TV for 30 years, but I am really enjoying the videos you produce. The information, education and general interest in your TH-cam videos is marvelous and I don,t need a licence to watch them. Thanks for the time and effort you put into entertaining us.
Recently found your videos and really enjoying following your adventures. Also glad to see your Steve Hall North Sea Sails! Steve built us a new set for our gaff cutter and she sailed better than ever before. Really enjoyed your voyage around the Venetian Lagoon which we did on a charter boat four years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep the vlogs coming!!
Thanks Roger! Watching from L.A.... Appreciate the vids and how they highlight the little joys and challenges. Also helps resist the urge to upsize, upsize, upsize.
I really enjoy your videos here in the US. This one particularly spoke to me because I’m a tinkerer and piddler. You actually just reminded me that I need to put fiberglass on my canoe paddles.
Same here Roger, moved the architectural practice home, done all my boat maintenance and the lockdown is driving the children crazy! Looking forward to the next installment!
Wonderful Rodger! Thank you for letting us peak over your shoulder as you potter away on all these tasks that are such a big reason for the appeal of simple traditional dinghy sailing. Our boat is away in the country as well. Up in Sonoma county at my friend Bill’s barn. Unfortunately that is a seventy mile drive that I can not do at present. However my sail, spars and oars are here. So I am inspired. Some day I hope you could visit California.
Reminded me of the tasks in my EDH exam 53 years ago.( Before they stole the letters for a computer game). I always pull the rope out hard first then twist it back towards the eye after the first tuck on the anchor splice. Makes it shorter and tighter. Enjoyed the video. My boat is 55 miles away at Stithians and I am locked in for the duration apparently!
Thankyou Roger I have 10 meters of chain and 30 metres of rode on my 7 tonne contessa. Went to the hebrides and took an extra 30 meters of chain. Its deep there . Am not alowed on my boat, not even to do maintenance, on pain of arrest. Ridiculous. Have been watching the Corbett Report. It makes more sense than the news. Cant wait to sail again..
Roger, I keep asking myself, “why am I so enamored with your videos”. I have decided that the answer is, “I wish I was Roger”. 😊 And I REALLY enjoyed this one.
You're very lucky, Roger, to have your boat at home so that you can work on her. I hope, like me, you have great sympathy for those wooden boat owners who are part way through their spring refit, only to find that the covid-19 lock down is preventing them from completing the work. What must be really bad is all this dry & windy weather shrinking wood and opening seams etc. Great video nevertheless.
Yes, agreed, I’m one of those - two masts, spars and gaff varnish all ruined by the beast from the east last year: was banking on this weather to fix it all
Roger, such a welcome video during these dark days. you have a lovely place to call home, and so much knowledge both in your Architecture work and obviously your Dinghy sailing video's.. a welcome respite during the lock-down. Thank you for taking the time and effort. atb
I’ve been using my fid wrong for more than 30 years! I thought it was just a better tool than a plain marlin spike for creating a channel through the rope - never knew it would pull the strand through! Thanks for the revelation, even if it comes a bit late for me.
Great episode, very relaxing. I learnt basic knots and splices as a cub and boy scout. Subsequently learned more as a sailor and mountaineer/climber. What puzzles me today watching lots of sailing channels the predominant knot is the Bowline but no-one seems to add a stopper knot behind it these days. When I was learning it was a prerequisite and we were criticized for not using it. I'm glad you're keeping busy during this lock-down, like you I'm in a rural area but I really feel for people like my son who lives in London, they must be bouncing off the walls with just one hour of permitted exercise per day. I wonder if this virus will effect where people want to live in the future, the importance of a back garden, garage and allotment area being more significant than previously valued. As always thank you for sharing especially during these testing times, best regards Paul D.
That's the first time I've heard of a stopper knot. So you'd tie a round turn or a figure of eight on the trailing end hard up against the bowline? Was that to stop it undoing unintentionally?
Nice mention of the manual of seamanship. I have the 1952 version. Can't get to my boat at the moment on it's moorings, itching to get back out on her. Fitted a diesel heater in January and don;t think I'll get a chance to use that again til next winter if I'm lucky!
Дякую за такі душевні відео. Класна шапка. Я мрію про дві речі - вивчити англійську, щоб розуміти на слух без титрів, і ще - дожити, щоб поміняти шапку хакі на ось таку , як у Вас, Роджер..
Roger, as we speak I am reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. I have been enjoying your video's for a long time. The comrades, animals, do not realise they play a major part there in...
For a minute there, I thought I was watching a new BBC Sitcom-- But then it got down to Serious Business! Also, I reference: The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor by Darcy Lever. Excellent book, archaic in some way but good information.
Very easy to watch. I inherited Vol 1& 2 of the Manual s of Seamanship from my Grandfather and bought Vol 3 a few years a go to complete the set. Amazing books.
As always Roger - lovely I'm a bit of a wound up, frustrated guy and you Sir, unwind me. I wish I could ba as much at peace as you appear to be. Thank you for taking the time for all your productions. My Next boat I'm hoping will be a Phoenix III. Same length but half the weight/size. Thanks again, stay well! - R
Wow just reread that post and the Phoenix dream was sold down the river (convinced it was not the right choice) by you Roger! As you know I am now the proud owner of an ILUR! Not regreting it in the slightest - in 13 days I'll be on my first 3 day cruise with three other boats - thanks again Roger, Rob
You really should get a wing chair into your boatshedtent. :-) Very interesting look into this and that of maintenance with glowing entusiasm for the craft. Thank you for yet another splendid film. :-)
Brilliant calming not boring at all Roger , I’m in finistere a place you know well ,, lock down going well if a bit tighter than the uk , I hope you get back over here soon and get back on the water in your lovely boat ,,, keep em coming ..
Thank you Roger! Once again you've made the dreary, delightful. If someone were to tell me that I would watch a video of a person painting oars, I'd tell them they were off their nut, yet here I am. I actually enjoy this type of video. Off to find a copy of the Admiralty book.
Lovely video Roger, and glad that you have such an exceptional taste in books! I have the same edition, given to me by a friend of a relative when I joined the Merchant Navy, and whilst some may be considered obsolete, it is a facinating snapshot into the seafaring world before the war, and the section on ropework, wire splicing, worming & parceling, etc is easily the most comprehensive that I have seen in any book. Stay safe Roger, and hopefuly we shall all be able take to the water again before too long!
What Roger refers to as a fisherman's anchor is referred to in the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship (vol 1, 1937) as an Admiralty Pattern anchor. I found a number of advertisements using that name too.
Thanks Roger, very relaxing and informative video. I am half way through your book, which is most enjoyable. I am looking forward to sailing my fall purchase of a 73 ish Mirror dinghy. It is in good condition and has been well looked after and the price was right. Thanks again for these videos always look forward to them. From Kevin in Ontario Canada. Cheers. :-)
Yes, I am stuck doing architecture as well in my home office. Construction is continuing although at a slower pace. I have my boat projects out behind my barn to distract me. Just a different continent.
Roger, I am one of five amateur boat builders who recently commenced building Francois' Ilur here in Perth, Western Australia. I like to think of Perth as Southampton surrounded by thousands of miles of dry forest and dry Weatfields as a means of describing it to English relatives. It would seem Covid 19 has finally pushed us all into gear! I'm sure this was in no small way due to your inspiring videos. Watching Avo dro close up is a treat for people like me. It gives us a clearer idea of what the boat is supposed to look like! Francois' latest 'improved' 2011 incarnation of the Ilur is more family leisure and less working boat than Avo dro. Seeing what the 'original' looks like in detail is very revealing. I am currently niaive and optimistic enough to think it's going to take a couple of years before we are all sailing ragattas together. What to name that august event? Mmm...
Thanks for another most interesting video. Your village looks charming, your house looks very traditional, love the fireplace, I have a wood stove and this video made me want to light it.
Thanks Roger. Farmers think they own the countryside.😂😂 You have as much length of anchor rode as I have on my 35 footer. (I do sail in the med. No tides) Of course, mine are heavier. I still use my fathers old seamanship manual from ww2. Still good for many things. Stay well everyone.
You mentioned one time that you didn't know if the oars are commercial or made for the boat. They are made with the boat. I'll be making mine at some point. Thanks for the videos.
Roger, each one of your videos are such a delight and shared learning... and on this occasion supported by a symphony of highly talented backyard birds. I think I am hearing a European Robin - oh so very different from the American Robin. (Love them!) Anyway, a perfect way to spend 27 minutes of vicariously messing with boats. Your videos are as inviting as they are instigating. I can't wait to get my Ilur back into water. - and yes, I also have a few things to sort out first. - I had planned to go to a favorite cruising ground of mine, the Tangiers Sound on the Chesapeake, in late May but I am not so sure that this is going to happen given the circumstances.
If I ever meet an architect and he has you work strong hands, I know I'm in good company. I watched this three times, once for the workmanship, once for the narration and once for the birdsong ..
Roger, In one of your future videos, please include a demonstration of the double trailers seen in some of your videos, with a rolling launch dolly that runs onto a highway trailer. They are unknown to my part of the world, and would save a lot of rusted out big trailers. With a good look at one, I believe I could build one. IndepensionLtd has a very brief video as does Right-On trailers. But your own observations would be very helpful.
ahhh, lockdown I'm taking this opportunity To repaint the uppers on My Hartley TS16. I have been watching your videos a lot.So much of what you do,and take with you, i can apply to my own Yacht.We are coming into autumn here in Australia.So our season is over.I really envy you your sailing waters.Even New Zealand has it better than us in Melbourne.Cheers mate.
perfect boat and the perfect home. and cows too. you have built an excellent life!
I have a copy of the 1964 edition of the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship. It was awarded to me in November 1974 for getting the highest ever recorded mark in a seamanship exam at HMS Excellent. I was 15 at the time.
All your videos are a joy to watch. Keep them coming.
Thank you
All you videos are very understandable for the french Mediterranean speaking sailor I am . Very interesting aesthetic and so nicely presented . So different from our " Mare nostrum " . This way of sailing is sadly impossible on our crowded shores . Thanks a lot .
It is Tusday following Easter and your video has been perfectly timed; and though a year later,
your comments are still current. The pandemic is making lives different, and the vaccination frenzy seems to create serious chasms in communication.
I don't sail anymore due to age and health, but build model boats instead. Keeping busy is the key, as the social bubble for my wife and I is small.
Thank you Roger, you have brightened my day, and have joined our bubble.
Regards, Rodney Vancouver Island Canada
Making model boats sounds lovely though.
Hi Roger, I used to be a Bosun in the Danish navy (and have been teaching seamanship both in the navy and in civilian life) It's a real pleasure to see you work 👍
I do love your videos. Thank you so much 🙏
I love watching real craftsmen working on traditional sailboats. I have my father's 1937 Admiralty Manual of Seamanship , and I refer to it regularly.
I just received my copy of the 1937 Admiralty Manual of Seamanship.
It is a truly amazing document of its time. It details the rigging of a square rig sailing ship, how to tie a battleship to a quayside, what the various etiquettes are for saluting an Admiral are (let fly your sails, stand and salute), semiphore and what the various bosun's whistle signals stand for.
The flags of the world's navies features the German Navy and Merchant Navy flags with dirty great swatikas on them!
It was so cheap and is in pristine condition - highly recommend you get a copy.
Very cool to get to see part of your dwelling, very cozy. Thankyou for sharing with us.
Boat's don't look after them selves nice to see and I will be looking forward to doing this myself thanks
We all spend time fiddling with our boats to keep things ship shape. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I enjoy your videos very much. I wanted a sailboat when I was about 14. I didn't get one until I was in my late 30s. It is a small one man racer, a small fiberglass boat with a lot of sail made in Toledo Ohio in the early 60s.
I would love to sell it and try and find a wooden boat like yours but I will probably have to settle for fiberglass again. but I defiantly need something bigger so I can teach my grand children to sail.
Film time 19:25- a coat of shellac to seal thread ? Now that you've shared a couple 'at home' tales, we know our skipper more as a neighbor. So neighbor, when will you take us along on one of your favorite walks ? Or include us in for a neighborhood bbq..or-- ? My favorite part of this presentation? The rattling if your stoves coal- wood & pouting of your glass & the puff of an an old couch as you settled down.We all know that precious moment when the burn is just right, the glass replenished & all is right
And it's Laphroaig, even better.
Many of us boat owners used the lock down for spring outfitting and attending to many delayed projects on our vessels. One of the few positive outcomes of this horrible situation. Hopefully next year we'll have less time but a healthier world.
Small cruiser owner here: appreciate you, very much. Thank you.
Thank you Roger, as someone fairly new to sailing I much appreciate your insight into boat maintenance, and your excellent series of enjoyable videos, especially here in the depths of a Canadian Prairie winter, and no hope to sail ‘till the Spring. Fair winds.
Very interesting video on dingy maintenance...thank you for sharing.
As I no longer sail or partake in any preparations and maintenance of a boat, or it's sailing. It is lovely to have your videos and your particular setting to continue the lifestyle. Excellent videos and mostly traditional maintenance. Thank you so much.
Hi Roger, I was taught to sail by a boating purist, and pardon me if I put you in the same bracket. Your use of the correct boating terminology is for me, so refreshing to hear. Your manual of seamanship was a joy tp behold. I have an old Reeds Companion, that having seen your manual, must have "borrowed" much of it's content, but without it, I would not be. I am for all my sins a Yachty and spend most of my time surrounded by "boating holidaymakers".I ought to add that my wife and I sailed all the way to Greece, 2003, visiting every island in between, and we keep her there, it's much warmer, but I will always say going below, port starboard, and NOT downstairs left & right !!!!!!! I trust you get what I mean. Standards are not just slipping, they are heading south with much gusto .............Please keep up the good work. Kind Regards, Barnacle Bern SY Cadbri.
Hello Roger. Love Your channel. Your trips are voyages of dreams! Small thing to comment on, very small, but can have huge consequences. I have seen the pin on the shackle work out on a active anchorage. I suggest a bit of stainless wire through the head of the pin around the U part of the shackle. Met an owner who lost his sailboat down in Mexico on the pacific side for the lack of a bit of wire? Thirty years later was still lamenting, For the lack of a nail the shoe was lost... . jimmy
Roger, Thank you from the Chesapeake Bay where we are in lock down as well. You have motivated me to head to the shop and crank out another 6 feet of baggywrinkle...
Be Well
Thanks Roger. I don,t own a television set and I,ve not watched a TV for 30 years, but I am really enjoying the videos you produce. The information, education and general interest in your TH-cam videos is marvelous and I don,t need a licence to watch them. Thanks for the time and effort you put into entertaining us.
Recently found your videos and really enjoying following your adventures. Also glad to see your Steve Hall North Sea Sails! Steve built us a new set for our gaff cutter and she sailed better than ever before. Really enjoyed your voyage around the Venetian Lagoon which we did on a charter boat four years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep the vlogs coming!!
Yes, Steve makes lovely sails.
Thanks Roger! Watching from L.A.... Appreciate the vids and how they highlight the little joys and challenges. Also helps resist the urge to upsize, upsize, upsize.
I really enjoy your videos here in the US. This one particularly spoke to me because I’m a tinkerer and piddler. You actually just reminded me that I need to put fiberglass on my canoe paddles.
My favorite spring ritual; getting the boat ready. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for uploading this video Roger it is a welcome distraction at the moment.
Same here Roger, moved the architectural practice home, done all my boat maintenance and the lockdown is driving the children crazy! Looking forward to the next installment!
Well done. Enjoyed the splicing.
Absolutely fantastic. Inspirational.
Wonderful Rodger! Thank you for letting us peak over your shoulder as you potter away on all these tasks that are such a big reason for the appeal of simple traditional dinghy sailing. Our boat is away in the country as well. Up in Sonoma county at my friend Bill’s barn. Unfortunately that is a seventy mile drive that I can not do at present. However my sail, spars and oars are here. So I am inspired. Some day I hope you could visit California.
Thankyou Roger for your lovely videos, they've kept me afloat through the winter here in Canada.
All the very best to you.
Also in Canada and also agree - this helps keep me sane and inspires me!
Reminded me of the tasks in my EDH exam 53 years ago.( Before they stole the letters for a computer game). I always pull the rope out hard first then twist it back towards the eye after the first tuck on the anchor splice. Makes it shorter and tighter. Enjoyed the video. My boat is 55 miles away at Stithians and I am locked in for the duration apparently!
Thankyou Roger
I have 10 meters of chain and 30 metres of rode on my 7 tonne contessa.
Went to the hebrides and took an extra 30 meters of chain. Its deep there .
Am not alowed on my boat, not even to do maintenance, on pain of arrest.
Ridiculous. Have been watching the Corbett Report. It makes more sense than the news.
Cant wait to sail again..
I used to charter a Contessa 32 on the W Coast and would take her to the Outer Hebrides. Miss it.
Roger, I keep asking myself, “why am I so enamored with your videos”. I have decided that the answer is, “I wish I was Roger”. 😊 And I REALLY enjoyed this one.
looks like a nice life..
Not boring at all. I find the boatwork videos informative and inviting. Fair winds and a following sea, and thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing during these crazy times. Your video took me elsewhere for a while and I do appreciate this. Cheers from America!!
Roger love your videos always learn something new ,
Hope you are well. Can't tell you how much joy i derive from your post!
You're very lucky, Roger, to have your boat at home so that you can work on her. I hope, like me, you have great sympathy for those wooden boat owners who are part way through their spring refit, only to find that the covid-19 lock down is preventing them from completing the work. What must be really bad is all this dry & windy weather shrinking wood and opening seams etc. Great video nevertheless.
Yes, agreed, I’m one of those - two masts, spars and gaff varnish all ruined by the beast from the east last year: was banking on this weather to fix it all
Very nice splices! Please, continue doeing videos during the lockdown!!!!!!!
Roger, such a welcome video during these dark days. you have a lovely place to call home, and so much knowledge both in your Architecture work and obviously your Dinghy sailing video's.. a welcome respite during the lock-down. Thank you for taking the time and effort. atb
Oh yes, I did enjoy this video. It’s the next best thing to being there watching you work and picking up a little knowledge along the way. Thanks.
I’ve been using my fid wrong for more than 30 years! I thought it was just a better tool than a plain marlin spike for creating a channel through the rope - never knew it would pull the strand through! Thanks for the revelation, even if it comes a bit late for me.
Great episode, very relaxing. I learnt basic knots and splices as a cub and boy scout. Subsequently learned more as a sailor and mountaineer/climber. What puzzles me today watching lots of sailing channels the predominant knot is the Bowline but no-one seems to add a stopper knot behind it these days. When I was learning it was a prerequisite and we were criticized for not using it.
I'm glad you're keeping busy during this lock-down, like you I'm in a rural area but I really feel for people like my son who lives in London, they must be bouncing off the walls with just one hour of permitted exercise per day. I wonder if this virus will effect where people want to live in the future, the importance of a back garden, garage and allotment area being more significant than previously valued. As always thank you for sharing especially during these testing times, best regards Paul D.
That's the first time I've heard of a stopper knot. So you'd tie a round turn or a figure of eight on the trailing end hard up against the bowline? Was that to stop it undoing unintentionally?
Nice mention of the manual of seamanship. I have the 1952 version. Can't get to my boat at the moment on it's moorings, itching to get back out on her. Fitted a diesel heater in January and don;t think I'll get a chance to use that again til next winter if I'm lucky!
Дякую за такі душевні відео. Класна шапка. Я мрію про дві речі - вивчити англійську, щоб розуміти на слух без титрів, і ще - дожити, щоб поміняти шапку хакі на ось таку , як у Вас, Роджер..
Another fucking brilliant vid Roger. Blissful 27 mins taking my mind off the matters of the world!
that F1 tractor is awesome 😎. Like your lockdown environment.I always put a strong threat upon the end of the woven cord. Love this nice work.
Roger, as we speak I am reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. I have been enjoying your video's for a long time. The comrades, animals, do not realise they play a major part there in...
Great to see the splicing and that the art isn't dead, loved it.
That was so relaxing to watch, and so very informative. I am really loving these vids. Thanks Roger.
For a minute there, I thought I was watching a new BBC Sitcom-- But then it got down to Serious Business! Also, I reference: The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor by Darcy Lever. Excellent book, archaic in some way but good information.
Very easy to watch.
I inherited Vol 1& 2 of the Manual s of Seamanship from my Grandfather and bought Vol 3 a few years a go to complete the set. Amazing books.
A wonderful vid. I learned much from your hands-on approach. Thanks from the waters of the cold North Atlantic here in New Hampshire in the states....
Very informative video and relaxing to watch. Thank you Roger. Looking forward to the next one.
As always Roger - lovely
I'm a bit of a wound up, frustrated guy and you Sir, unwind me. I wish I could ba as much at peace as you appear to be. Thank you for taking the time for all your productions. My Next boat I'm hoping will be a Phoenix III. Same length but half the weight/size. Thanks again, stay well! - R
Wow just reread that post and the Phoenix dream was sold down the river (convinced it was not the right choice) by you Roger! As you know I am now the proud owner of an ILUR! Not regreting it in the slightest - in 13 days I'll be on my first 3 day cruise with three other boats - thanks again Roger, Rob
Great video, i find watching spicing very relaxing but quite frustrating to do myself, I guess I dont do rope work often enough.
You really should get a wing chair into your boatshedtent. :-) Very interesting look into this and that of maintenance with glowing entusiasm for the craft. Thank you for yet another splendid film. :-)
Brilliant calming not boring at all Roger , I’m in finistere a place you know well ,, lock down going well if a bit tighter than the uk , I hope you get back over here soon and get back on the water in your lovely boat ,,, keep em coming ..
I always believed epoxy and fiberglass would trap moisture and create rot? But you seem to have done this several times with sucess?
Thank you Roger! Once again you've made the dreary, delightful. If someone were to tell me that I would watch a video of a person painting oars, I'd tell them they were off their nut, yet here I am. I actually enjoy this type of video. Off to find a copy of the Admiralty book.
Lovely video Roger, and glad that you have such an exceptional taste in books! I have the same edition, given to me by a friend of a relative when I joined the Merchant Navy, and whilst some may be considered obsolete, it is a facinating snapshot into the seafaring world before the war, and the section on ropework, wire splicing, worming & parceling, etc is easily the most comprehensive that I have seen in any book.
Stay safe Roger, and hopefuly we shall all be able take to the water again before too long!
Nice work, your videos are always a delight and we are already looking forward to the next one, nice Hat by the way!
The video was great, as usual. I was going to ask a question, but you answered it with the book at the end. Thanks.
What Roger refers to as a fisherman's anchor is referred to in the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship (vol 1, 1937) as an Admiralty Pattern anchor. I found a number of advertisements using that name too.
I’ve always called them fisherman’s. I’m not sure that Admiralty Pattern fold down.
Roger, just finished reading your book, really enjoyed it, nice mix of fact, how to and story telling!
I just love your videos, Roger. You're such an inspiration, thank you.
Absolutely great video. Very informative. Thank you so much.
Superb, loved every fathom of this.
I just love Rogers videos its too late for me to start sailing ,but relaxing to watch Roger. Cool Bannanas
Thanks Roger, very relaxing and informative video. I am half way through your book, which is most enjoyable. I am looking forward to sailing my fall purchase of a 73 ish Mirror dinghy. It is in good condition and has been well looked after and the price was right. Thanks again for these videos always look forward to them. From Kevin in Ontario Canada. Cheers. :-)
Well done Capt. Barnes.
love the video. Dug out my late father in law's Manual of Seamanship Vol 1& 2. He served on HMS Nelson and Coastal Forces in WW2.
25:24 good book! fair winds Roger
God job, thank you Roger! 🙏👍😎
thanks for getting me out of the house for half an hour
It is good to show what it takes to keep the boat in Bristol fashion. A small segment on knots would be great.
Yes, I am stuck doing architecture as well in my home office. Construction is continuing although at a slower pace. I have my boat projects out behind my barn to distract me. Just a different continent.
Roger, I am one of five amateur boat builders who recently commenced building Francois' Ilur here in Perth, Western Australia.
I like to think of Perth as Southampton surrounded by thousands of miles of dry forest and dry Weatfields as a means of describing it to English relatives.
It would seem Covid 19 has finally pushed us all into gear!
I'm sure this was in no small way due to your inspiring videos.
Watching Avo dro close up is a treat for people like me.
It gives us a clearer idea of what the boat is supposed to look like!
Francois' latest 'improved' 2011 incarnation of the Ilur is more family leisure and less working boat than Avo dro.
Seeing what the 'original' looks like in detail is very revealing.
I am currently niaive and optimistic enough to think it's going to take a couple of years before we are all sailing ragattas together.
What to name that august event? Mmm...
Hi captain . Beware of the mouses . They love sails just to bite holes in them .
Thanks for the bosuns work.👍
Why am I not surprised you’re a Laphroaig man... my Brother! 👊🏾😜.
Very enjoyable and most welcome at this testing time we are all in.
Thanks for another most interesting video. Your village looks charming, your house looks very traditional, love the fireplace, I have a wood stove and this video made me want to light it.
Apologies but I was referring to the fibreglassing which I have some expertise in as well as dinghy building.
Thanks Roger. Farmers think they own the countryside.😂😂 You have as much length of anchor rode as I have on my 35 footer. (I do sail in the med. No tides) Of course, mine are heavier. I still use my fathers old seamanship manual from ww2. Still good for many things. Stay well everyone.
Your videos remind me so much of Jack Hargreaves "Countryman". Thanks for making them.
Great video Roger
This is great. I'd always love to see more!
Admiralty manuals splicing etc is still used with steel cabling. Going to have a gussied up vessel there come time to sail again.
Thank you Roger. Interesting, informative and inspirational. X
Thanks Roger - interesting video.
Espectacular video Roger!
You mentioned one time that you didn't know if the oars are commercial or made for the boat. They are made with the boat. I'll be making mine at some point. Thanks for the videos.
My oars are adapted Admiralty oars from Collars of Oxford - shortened and made slimmer.
@@RogerRoving Yes I see. The plans in the book are for 3 metre rowing oars and a 2.9m sculling oar with different paddle size.
Hi Roger enjoyed every minute well done your a true craftsman ATB
She will certainly be ship shape and Bristol fashion.
My anchor lines have an eye splice over a thimble connected to the chain with a shackle and wire in the shackle pin. 😎
Will it pull in through a fairlead?
Roger, each one of your videos are such a delight and shared learning... and on this occasion supported by a symphony of highly talented backyard birds. I think I am hearing a European Robin - oh so very different from the American Robin. (Love them!) Anyway, a perfect way to spend 27 minutes of vicariously messing with boats. Your videos are as inviting as they are instigating. I can't wait to get my Ilur back into water. - and yes, I also have a few things to sort out first. - I had planned to go to a favorite cruising ground of mine, the Tangiers Sound on the Chesapeake, in late May but I am not so sure that this is going to happen given the circumstances.
If I ever meet an architect and he has you work strong hands, I know I'm in good company.
I watched this three times, once for the workmanship, once for the narration and once for the birdsong ..
Roger, In one of your future videos, please include a demonstration of the double trailers seen in some of your videos, with a rolling launch dolly that runs onto a highway trailer. They are unknown to my part of the world, and would save a lot of rusted out big trailers. With a good look at one, I believe I could build one.
IndepensionLtd has a very brief video as does Right-On trailers. But your own observations would be very helpful.
Roger, are you ok? It looked like there was blood on the rope, we were worried about you! Great video, as always.
ahhh, lockdown I'm taking this opportunity To repaint the uppers on My Hartley TS16. I have been watching your videos a lot.So much of what you do,and take with you, i can apply to my own Yacht.We are coming into autumn here in Australia.So our season is over.I really envy you your sailing waters.Even New Zealand has it better than us in Melbourne.Cheers mate.