Thank you Jerry! That's so kind of you to say! She really is starting to look so good, we're working hard but luckily also having lots of fun with it! Thank you for your lovely feedback, it means a lot!
Great job with the start of the fairing. Many people will compliment you on the beautiful woodwork, joinery, interior, and the ship's beautiful lines, but unless you're a boat builder you don't realize that the most beautiful aspect of a wooden built boat like yours, and ours, is that it is the fairing job that shows the dedication and determination. A fair hull is the quiet testament to a skilled boat builder, or two in your case. Keep up the great work!
Each new layer on the hull-from wood planking to fiberglass to epoxy paint-creates another perspective of her lines and she just keeps looking better…and bigger! 😳👍
Ifka, I've long admired your editing skills, and today's episode has a delightful sequence where you have laid a light jazz piano over video of you muscling the torture board across the hull. A light and lovely bit of irony. Well done. And with the white and rub rail together, the picture starts to come into focus. Another great video. Thanks.
Another great video. Watching you guys really helps keep me motivated for my build. I'm still on holidays, if you call brick laying, landscaping, excavating etc holidaying, lol. Anyway, I hope to be back at it next week and filming another Dragonfly extravaganza. Take care you two. Cheers from Captain Steve and Maple the miracle mutt. :)
Thank you John, I really appreciate your comment, the selection of the music is always hard, to predict if people will find it pleasing but we usually go for songs that we love and suit the situation. I'm really glad you like our choices. I personally love the music we use and I'm happy you do too 😊
Happy New Year! and Happy Friday! Always wonderful to see the progress of Tatkine! I learn along with y’all, more and more with every episode. A perfect example, that I have no doubt I’ll be trying in the future, is the interesting placement of a cell phone within the drip zone of a full can of primer whilst pouring. I could literally hear Ifka politely saying, “you might want to move your cellphone”😂🤣😂🤣 You two brighten this old woodworker, and sailor’s day with every episode, thank you! Cheers from Dallas!
another tip, you can use black spray paint in rattle cans to mist on the primer before sanding. so when you sand, all the highs and lows will really show up easily, and helps with not sanding too much.
Fröhe Weinachten and Happy New Year from Germany. I envy your short sleeves. Pro tip: Buy a cheap spray can of brown primer and sprinkle over surface to be sanded. This will give you a very visible guide to high and low spots during sanding.
Doing great guys. Just a tip, roll on the maximum primer possible without it runing. should look really wet with no dry spots. Its great that you are showing some of the bloopers, it keeps it reall and shows that what you are doing is not easy. ohh the joys of longboarding haha
Wetting table. With any near-vertical layup, you have to pre-wet the glass; and of course prime the surface (as you did). Get yourself a table long enough for your intended layups, cover it in plastic sheet, make the glass sopping wet, then roll it up on an old tube to transfer it to your working surface. Cheers and good luck!
Hahaha yes! It sounded easy when we planned it but things have a way of working out differently 😉 it was a long process in the end to do one bit of cloth but we got it done in the end! Thanks for watching!
Another superb episode - and what a beautiful place to go fishing! The torture board will help you to discover muscles you never knew you had but the workout will be very worthwhile. It's amazing what a difference a bit of paint makes, and Tarkine will undoubtedly be an absolute stunner when she's finished. Keep up the good work!
Guys I had a wry smile whilst the torture board was in use, the name is so apt. She is coming along splendidly and I'm looking forward to see her with the first full coat of final primer. She is a good looking girl, when completed I'm positive she's going to turn many heads wherever she goes
Once you get her fair, spraying the primer saves a LOT of sanding and waisted paint. That orange peel is a real pain when trying to get a good undercoat. A cheap spray gun is all you need, I have 4 coats wet on wet done in a morning. Light sand the next day and ready for top coat. Looking fantastic!
Oh, the memories! And I was just fanching around with a 12’ skiff! I found that an unthickened epoxy paint (Lou Sauzedde recommended one from TotalBoat) worked great to create a “crust” through which I could sand through, almost as a marker coat, before I started the fairing/painting/fairing loop. My issue was knowing when to stop. And the good news was that the new roller-applied topcoat paints are really fantastic and very forgiving. Beautiful video, by the way. And the drama with the first strip of twill was fantastic. All the best from Texas!
I'm really impressed with the progress in both build AND editing. That said, I sort of miss the videos where the camera mount slowly gives way until we are all looking at the floor. You know, similar to the way fiberglass did on this episode. 🙃 Great channel, great project. Hope viewership is sufficiently growing. It will go through the roof when you pour lead, so keep that in mind if you need a boost.
happy new year guys, looks like a good work out Matt but mind the old war injury to your shoulder, i think the Mrs is doing better at the torture board - that surface is looking real good, not an easy thing to get right when using fiber glass, but the white guide coat is a real aid, a lot of hard work for sure, but well worth it
At the wooden boat festival look for Leo of Sampson Boat Co,he built Tally Ho and is giving a talk there. I’m sure he’ll love to see your boat and it would grow your channel too I guess. I’ve just found your channel so awesome well done so far.
Great work, no glory in that job. No one will ever say nice fairing job, but they'll notice right away if it isn't a good job, good luck. O and thanks for featuring my favorite hat once again. :)
A pleasure all times to follow your work. I learned a lot. However, from the video footage the stongback below the keel looks - to me - not robust enough. I am building a boat too (upside down however) and added steel jacks under the keel as the weight of the hull increased...do you keep-up with the lateral stability and vertical weight resistance of your strongback assy ? Not a detail to avoid a catastrophic failure.
Amazing the impact of the rub rail on the whitened hull. Really accentuates the boat shape. Maybe doing smaller fiberglass sections. Say half or two thirds with more hull wetting and top taping. Or full sections with one or two more persons. Torture boarding is no fun. Great that you can change up the routines and muscle groups used. Neck, shoulder, arms, back and legs must be sore.
What roller sleeve were you using? The texture is called stipple, and will be different with different sleeves-foam, mohair, microfibre, etc. Great progress!
Another idea but used to be expensive. You can buy a digital kitchen scale now for 11 bucks...(those are male elks). weighing epoxy ratios is so much easier and less error prone. Feel sorry for your two's backs. She looks pretty with the rub rail.
Tasmania was build by convicts, forced labor was normal... The work is still there, now done voluntarily! What a job, no need for the gym after a day of hard work!
i might be mistaken but the lighter cloth you showed was woven roven maybe 3oz. so far ive never worked with twill, which is a type of woven roven but with a specific sequence between the warp and weft which gives it a specific look and making it drape really nicely over compound/complex shapes. ive worked with 17oz 45/45 biax, and bought a roll of 3oz woven roven because , for some spots i wouldnt need such a strong cloth and i could also save in the resin. turns out that ive laminated it as i normally did for any other time, only to be able to peel it after the resin had cured. i lost all confidence in the cloth and never used it more, to this day i dont know what hapenned, and im sure it wasnt a problem with the resin or contaminated surfaces because im pretty anal about those instances
got to say it shocked me u left the keel exposed ...... i can see guys sailing along smack a log in that area and delaminated in those area specially how waters flow... i would wrap it in fiber glass from stem to stern
The whole boat will be wrapped in glass, inside and outside. The inside is already done. There are two layers of glass on the hull already in this video. The glass also wraps underneath the keel. This cloth we did in this video is a layer of twill that goes over the heavy cloth. It's to minimise print though.
You are not blocking entirely correctly. If you move in the long length direction of rhe block you can create valleys. The correct way is to move perpendicular in a 30-45 degree direction to the curve.
its *Campbell Is 52 sth time soon (maiden voyage) 🤣🙃 hope the chooks don't eat your dust I had 50 chooks for the 12 months (10men) and I had so many eggs daily i fed them to the SUB Antarctic Skuas they swallowed them whole / some smashed in the greedy faces would a made great video 🥳 2025 to youall!!
Looking good! Have you considered using a wider roller when applying paint to such a large area, you could save alot of time and effort. A guide coat to show low spots when sanding will also aid you when sanding the hull, as they use in auto painting. Just a thought.
Tarkine is really starting to come together, she looks divine, you guys are working so hard, it's amazing to watch...
Thank you Jerry! That's so kind of you to say! She really is starting to look so good, we're working hard but luckily also having lots of fun with it! Thank you for your lovely feedback, it means a lot!
Great job with the start of the fairing. Many people will compliment you on the beautiful woodwork, joinery, interior, and the ship's beautiful lines, but unless you're a boat builder you don't realize that the most beautiful aspect of a wooden built boat like yours, and ours, is that it is the fairing job that shows the dedication and determination. A fair hull is the quiet testament to a skilled boat builder, or two in your case.
Keep up the great work!
Each new layer on the hull-from wood planking to fiberglass to epoxy paint-creates another perspective of her lines and she just keeps looking better…and bigger! 😳👍
Ifka, I've long admired your editing skills, and today's episode has a delightful sequence where you have laid a light jazz piano over video of you muscling the torture board across the hull. A light and lovely bit of irony. Well done. And with the white and rub rail together, the picture starts to come into focus. Another great video. Thanks.
Another great video. Watching you guys really helps keep me motivated for my build. I'm still on holidays, if you call brick laying, landscaping, excavating etc holidaying, lol. Anyway, I hope to be back at it next week and filming another Dragonfly extravaganza. Take care you two. Cheers from Captain Steve and Maple the miracle mutt. :)
your background music is almost classical and i love it.
Thank you John, I really appreciate your comment, the selection of the music is always hard, to predict if people will find it pleasing but we usually go for songs that we love and suit the situation. I'm really glad you like our choices. I personally love the music we use and I'm happy you do too 😊
I second that! Your background music is by far and away the best and least obtrusive of all the boat building channels I watch
@gregwilliams7227 thank you Greg! I really do appreciate that feedback. I'm so happy to hear this 😊
My heart sank when the glass peeled off but fortunately the music lifted me❤
Hahaha glad to hear it! Thanks
No chickens were harmed during this filming. Seriously guys it is looking very good, Lots of hard work bearing results. Great stuff.
Haha yes never harmed! Just annoying ha
What a great job you are doing on your dream boat. Set backs seem to make you both stronger.
So happy to hear it comes across like that haha we were feeling a bit defeated at the setback but got it done in the end! Thanks for following along!!
My chickens heard yours and say hi back.
Authentic is my word that best subscribes both of you!
Aw thanks!!
Happy New Year! and Happy Friday!
Always wonderful to see the progress of Tatkine!
I learn along with y’all, more and more with every episode. A perfect example, that I have no doubt I’ll be trying in the future, is the interesting placement of a cell phone within the drip zone of a full can of primer whilst pouring. I could literally hear Ifka politely saying, “you might want to move your cellphone”😂🤣😂🤣
You two brighten this old woodworker, and sailor’s day with every episode, thank you!
Cheers from Dallas!
another tip, you can use black spray paint in rattle cans to mist on the primer before sanding. so when you sand, all the highs and lows will really show up easily, and helps with not sanding too much.
Fröhe Weinachten and Happy New Year from Germany. I envy your short sleeves. Pro tip: Buy a cheap spray can of brown primer and sprinkle over surface to be sanded. This will give you a very visible guide to high and low spots during sanding.
maybee use a spray of black guide coat just a light mist that's what i've used on car repairs it shows up all the low spots?
Thanks for the tip! We'll give it a go!
Great to watch!. How do you stay so calm when things go wrong lol. Loved the music too. Keep up the good work.
Glad you enjoyed! Cheers
Doing great guys. Just a tip, roll on the maximum primer possible without it runing. should look really wet with no dry spots. Its great that you are showing some of the bloopers, it keeps it reall and shows that what you are doing is not easy. ohh the joys of longboarding haha
She’s looking amazing, well done ❤
Thank you so much ❤️
That rub rail really makes a difference! 👍
Yeah true!
Seeing that rubrail go on gave me a definite "ahhhh" moment, the curves of Tarkine are very seductive to the eye. Bloody good job
Wetting table. With any near-vertical layup, you have to pre-wet the glass; and of course prime the surface (as you did). Get yourself a table long enough for your intended layups, cover it in plastic sheet, make the glass sopping wet, then roll it up on an old tube to transfer it to your working surface. Cheers and good luck!
120 grit! Wow, that sounds like hard work.
Keep plodding on guys. You'll get there.
Hahaha yeah a touch light maybe… 🤔
What a beauty, you can see the shape, 🎉
Yeah she’s getting there!
Another great video
Yeeha! Thankyou!! 🥳
One foot in front of the other together in the same direction is why you two have built a very special boat, congratulations.
so you thought you could squeeze in a little break huh?! the fiberglas thought NOT! 😅 keep it up, it'll get hard now but you're progressing well!
Hahaha yes! It sounded easy when we planned it but things have a way of working out differently 😉 it was a long process in the end to do one bit of cloth but we got it done in the end! Thanks for watching!
wow that is a lot of work, looking good. 😎💚💙👍👍🍺🍺🍻
Thank you Walter!! Getting it done, bit by bit!
Another superb episode - and what a beautiful place to go fishing! The torture board will help you to discover muscles you never knew you had but the workout will be very worthwhile. It's amazing what a difference a bit of paint makes, and Tarkine will undoubtedly be an absolute stunner when she's finished. Keep up the good work!
How the two of you are managing a project of such monumental effort escapes me. This is truly awesome work.
Thank you! It's a lot of work but we're having fun with it. 😉
Guys I had a wry smile whilst the torture board was in use, the name is so apt. She is coming along splendidly and I'm looking forward to see her with the first full coat of final primer. She is a good looking girl, when completed I'm positive she's going to turn many heads wherever she goes
Ah thanks!! Very nice of you to say! Cheers
Once you get her fair, spraying the primer saves a LOT of sanding and waisted paint. That orange peel is a real pain when trying to get a good undercoat. A cheap spray gun is all you need, I have 4 coats wet on wet done in a morning. Light sand the next day and ready for top coat.
Looking fantastic!
Wouldn't be a proper Friday without see you both. Everything is looking good. The Viking is getting a shoulder workout, love her tattoos. Ed
Hahaha thanks! She sure is! Cheers
Whooee! The first of many coats of paint; visible progress.
Yeeeeeeee!!!
Agree with music comments. Lovely soundtrack in many episodes. It sets your channel apart. A list would be great.
BEAUTIFUL
THANK YOU 😊
Oh, the memories! And I was just fanching around with a 12’ skiff! I found that an unthickened epoxy paint (Lou Sauzedde recommended one from TotalBoat) worked great to create a “crust” through which I could sand through, almost as a marker coat, before I started the fairing/painting/fairing loop. My issue was knowing when to stop. And the good news was that the new roller-applied topcoat paints are really fantastic and very forgiving. Beautiful video, by the way. And the drama with the first strip of twill was fantastic. All the best from Texas!
Well done both, that’s some seriously hard graft and the beautiful lines are really starting to show.
Super boat
Thanks!
HNY! What a transformation the blocked out single white colour made. Looking great.
Thanks so much!
She is looking great guys good job !!
Thanks!!
As always the highlight of the week!
Hahah great to hear that! Cheers
looks great
Cheers!
I'm really impressed with the progress in both build AND editing. That said, I sort of miss the videos where the camera mount slowly gives way until we are all looking at the floor. You know, similar to the way fiberglass did on this episode. 🙃 Great channel, great project. Hope viewership is sufficiently growing. It will go through the roof when you pour lead, so keep that in mind if you need a boost.
It's looking awesome guys!
Thanks Liam!!
This is helpful for alot of us !😂🎉
Nice one.. looking forward to your next video.
Thanks 👍
tape the glass to the gunwales. and use more ressan .
happy new year guys, looks like a good work out Matt but mind the old war injury to your shoulder, i think the Mrs is doing better at the torture board - that surface is looking real good, not an easy thing to get right when using fiber glass, but the white guide coat is a real aid, a lot of hard work for sure, but well worth it
Great work guys 🇬🇧
Thanks!
Tardiness is really looking good,I would imagine fairing by hand with a flexi board gives you a proper feel for the finish.
Both of you rock!
Aw thanks!!! ☺️
Looking great well done both
Cheers!
At the wooden boat festival look for Leo of Sampson Boat Co,he built Tally Ho and is giving a talk there. I’m sure he’ll love to see your boat and it would grow your channel too I guess. I’ve just found your channel so awesome well done so far.
Yeah we heard! Hoping to catch up with him for sure! Cheers
Looking Fantastic !
Thank you! Cheers!
Great progress
Love the flavor!!
Thank you, looking beautiful.
Thank you! 😊
Awesome to watch this process great job
Thanks so much for watching!
Should be stapling that top edge!! Easy to remove later
Great work, no glory in that job. No one will ever say nice fairing job, but they'll notice right away if it isn't a good job, good luck. O and thanks for featuring my favorite hat once again. :)
Going great people ❤
Looks awesome. Thank you 👌
Thank you! 😊
Wow ! What a job !
Thank you!
HERMOSO BARCO !!! Un gran saludo desde latitud 34 s. Argentina !!!
Absolutely stunning workmanship.
Oh thank you so much for the kind words! ☺️
Brilliant work guys. Hard work but excellent
Jerry(below me,) just took the words right out of my mouth(well, fingers....) cheers and Happy New Year...richard Normandy
A pleasure all times to follow your work. I learned a lot. However, from the video footage the stongback below the keel looks - to me - not robust enough. I am building a boat too (upside down however) and added steel jacks under the keel as the weight of the hull increased...do you keep-up with the lateral stability and vertical weight resistance of your strongback assy ? Not a detail to avoid a catastrophic failure.
Yeah a fair point!! We will throw a few more under it’s a good idea cheers
Amazing the impact of the rub rail on the whitened hull. Really accentuates the boat shape. Maybe doing smaller fiberglass sections. Say half or two thirds with more hull wetting and top taping. Or full sections with one or two more persons. Torture boarding is no fun. Great that you can change up the routines and muscle groups used. Neck, shoulder, arms, back and legs must be sore.
What roller sleeve were you using? The texture is called stipple, and will be different with different sleeves-foam, mohair, microfibre, etc.
Great progress!
Fabulous.
Thank you!!
Love your channel, chooks and all!
Another idea but used to be expensive. You can buy a digital kitchen scale now for 11 bucks...(those are male elks). weighing epoxy ratios is so much easier and less error prone. Feel sorry for your two's backs. She looks pretty with the rub rail.
you really should get you the right tools to do the job rent an air compressor, and a sander
Tasmania was build by convicts, forced labor was normal...
The work is still there, now done voluntarily!
What a job, no need for the gym after a day of hard work!
That's where hats come into their own
Yep exactly!
Now we see why Iefke where's that hat! ;)
Hahaha yes! Glad you noticed!
Супер фитнес☝️😉⛵🏅🥇
i might be mistaken but the lighter cloth you showed was woven roven maybe 3oz.
so far ive never worked with twill, which is a type of woven roven but with a specific sequence between the warp and weft which gives it a specific look and making it drape really nicely over compound/complex shapes.
ive worked with 17oz 45/45 biax, and bought a roll of 3oz woven roven because , for some spots i wouldnt need such a strong cloth and i could also save in the resin. turns out that ive laminated it as i normally did for any other time, only to be able to peel it after the resin had cured.
i lost all confidence in the cloth and never used it more, to this day i dont know what hapenned, and im sure it wasnt a problem with the resin or contaminated surfaces because im pretty anal about those instances
Thanks for the too rare Tasmania footages
You're welcome!
i love that owatrol t shirt and cant find it, would you be so kind to point me out where to buy this one?
Some rotten jobs feel like they will never end but they do……you poor things, really feel for you!
Ah thankyou! We are really getting there though
got to say it shocked me u left the keel exposed ...... i can see guys sailing along smack a log in that area and delaminated in those area specially how waters flow... i would wrap it in fiber glass from stem to stern
The whole boat will be wrapped in glass, inside and outside. The inside is already done. There are two layers of glass on the hull already in this video. The glass also wraps underneath the keel. This cloth we did in this video is a layer of twill that goes over the heavy cloth. It's to minimise print though.
Try and make yourself a 'Flintstone'.
I see why that is called a tourture board.
It must be tourture to do that for any length of time.
Hahah yes very true! But also a little rewarding!
You are not blocking entirely correctly. If you move in the long length direction of rhe block you can create valleys. The correct way is to move perpendicular in a 30-45 degree direction to the curve.
Hmmm yes we understand that but it’s not always that simple, there are humps and bumps all around that we have to locate and work to them.
Filling and Fairing - I would sell my mother to get someone else to do it....
Hahaha wise words!
A newly built fiberglass boat with a wooden core?
I would call it a suicide.
its *Campbell Is 52 sth time soon (maiden voyage) 🤣🙃 hope the chooks don't eat your dust I had 50 chooks for the 12 months (10men) and I had so many eggs daily i fed them to the SUB Antarctic Skuas they swallowed them whole / some smashed in the greedy faces would a made great video 🥳 2025 to youall!!
Is there any scientific evidence that shows a “faired” hull is more efficient than an unfaired hull, other than aesthetics?
Hahah not sure! There is a lot of pride and aesthetics involved for sure! Often it will stand out of she’s not fair, especially with gloss paint!
Looking good! Have you considered using a wider roller when applying paint to such a large area, you could save alot of time and effort. A guide coat to show low spots when sanding will also aid you when sanding the hull, as they use in auto painting. Just a thought.
That's a good idea! These are just cheaper… haha building on a budget!
You need put more epoxy..........