Interesting video. I have a couple of tips. Get a machinist scale. They are thinner and more accurate than your ruler for taking offsets. Also, if your lands are all the same amount added to your pattern, make your batten that width and mark the other side of the batten. Last, it was hard to see if your spiling jig was just flat on the bottom or if it stepped down the thickness of the pattern material. More important in carvel planking. All my spiling jigs are made out of aluminum scrap hatch trim, and they have a hook on the end equal to the thckness of my pattern material. This ensures you are marking the actual inside edge of the plank. Again, I'm enjoying your videos from all the way in New Jersey, USA. Always excited to see a wooden boat built!
It will be interesting following her progress over the next few years ! P.S. If you ever happen to be in South Australia we have a Biennial wooden boat festival called the "Yorke Peninsula's Saltwater Classic"; in part to commemorate when the remote coasts of this State were served by hoards of mostly ketches known as the "Mosquito Fleet" because they were so prevalent ! We also used to be the source of grain and wool for England, carried by famous clipper ships; which can be learned about in the South Australian Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide as well as smaller museums along the coast. Cheers from an Arthur Ransome fan in rural South Australia !
Thank you! I've never been to Australia, but I would love to go someday. I hear a lot about the wooden boatbuilding community there so would definitely spend a lot of time looking at boats if I get the chance to go! Also, don't know if you could spot it, but the book I'm reading at 11:30 is Ransome's Winter Holiday!
To be honest, I would have preferred doing the offsets in feet and inches, because that's how I usually do it, particularly for larger measurements. But the way the ratio worked out when I resized the plans, it was easier to use metric for the offsets. I will be using a combination of both imperial and metric throughout the build, I should think. Switching between systems is something I do all the time.
@@buildingladygarnet quite right that's the proper way and why we English quite happily go to the wood supplier and ask for an 8' x 4' sheet of 13mm plywood :)
@@hatatfatcat Ha, exactly! The important thing is to make sure everyone knows what system you're using. I once worked with someone who asked me to machine a plank, said he'd written the measurements on it. I had one look, went to him and said, "What system are you using?" He said "Oh, right, should have mentioned. I write the length in inches, width in centimetres, thickness in milimetres." Good thing I asked, he might have gotten a very oddly shaped plank!
@@hatatfatcat Exactly ! Also; Merchant: How long do you want the plank cut sir? Customer: 13 feet and three of them centimetre things. Once heard in my local timber yard many years ago.
Thanks for another enjoyable update. Your high precision wooden school ruler made me smile.
:) It was the one I had to hand! But I'll be double checking all the measurements, and for that I'll use my steel ruler.
Interesting video. I have a couple of tips. Get a machinist scale. They are thinner and more accurate than your ruler for taking offsets. Also, if your lands are all the same amount added to your pattern, make your batten that width and mark the other side of the batten.
Last, it was hard to see if your spiling jig was just flat on the bottom or if it stepped down the thickness of the pattern material. More important in carvel planking. All my spiling jigs are made out of aluminum scrap hatch trim, and they have a hook on the end equal to the thckness of my pattern material. This ensures you are marking the actual inside edge of the plank.
Again, I'm enjoying your videos from all the way in New Jersey, USA. Always excited to see a wooden boat built!
Thank you for the tips Bryan, greatly appreciated. :)
Thanks for the update! Love this project and your completely confident serenity about the whole thing.
Thank you!
It will be interesting following her progress over the next few years !
P.S. If you ever happen to be in South Australia we have a Biennial wooden boat festival called the "Yorke Peninsula's Saltwater Classic"; in part to commemorate when the remote coasts of this State were served by hoards of mostly ketches known as the "Mosquito Fleet" because they were so prevalent ! We also used to be the source of grain and wool for England, carried by famous clipper ships; which can be learned about in the South Australian Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide as well as smaller museums along the coast.
Cheers from an Arthur Ransome fan in rural South Australia !
Thank you! I've never been to Australia, but I would love to go someday. I hear a lot about the wooden boatbuilding community there so would definitely spend a lot of time looking at boats if I get the chance to go! Also, don't know if you could spot it, but the book I'm reading at 11:30 is Ransome's Winter Holiday!
I wonder if The Nancy Blackett Trust would give you some publicity on their blog. Good luck with the project.
Thank you Gavin! I will look into that.
Its the Nancy Oldfield trust nancy blacket is a swallows and amazons character
Very interesting and yes, relaxing to watch. Happy New Year to you!
Thank you Dan, happy new year!
great
Thanks Peter
now we are talking
At 3:51 did you mean 54' ? You quoted 44' which is 4' shorter that the planned hull 🤪
Haha, well spotted! I should have said 54'. Oops.
millimeters ??????? LG will be the only NW built in that metric in history. I suppose it is best to stick to the scale you are comfortable with.
To be honest, I would have preferred doing the offsets in feet and inches, because that's how I usually do it, particularly for larger measurements. But the way the ratio worked out when I resized the plans, it was easier to use metric for the offsets. I will be using a combination of both imperial and metric throughout the build, I should think. Switching between systems is something I do all the time.
@@buildingladygarnet quite right that's the proper way and why we English quite happily go to the wood supplier and ask for an 8' x 4' sheet of 13mm plywood :)
@@hatatfatcat Ha, exactly! The important thing is to make sure everyone knows what system you're using. I once worked with someone who asked me to machine a plank, said he'd written the measurements on it. I had one look, went to him and said, "What system are you using?" He said "Oh, right, should have mentioned. I write the length in inches, width in centimetres, thickness in milimetres." Good thing I asked, he might have gotten a very oddly shaped plank!
@@hatatfatcat Exactly ! Also;
Merchant: How long do you want the plank cut sir?
Customer: 13 feet and three of them centimetre things.
Once heard in my local timber yard many years ago.
@@tetleyk Hehe, that's brilliant!