Wouldn't recommend it at this time, especially after the assassination of one of their popular generals. Hopefully some day our two countries can work out their differences. Of course traveling internationally anywhere for the time being isn't going to be easy.
If there are trees and water, boats will be built, true in every corner of the planet. Lou - I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed all of your videos. Thank you.
I seen a guy in a video on you tube, i think in Africa, the sawyer had an ancient Stihl contra chain saw, he used the same method, making a shallow kerf first then deepened it, the best part was that he had flip flops on. These (your videos) inspire me to make my you tube channel better, thank you posting and sharing!
Nothing better than watching creative people doing their trade! Real life beats Hollywood every time! Thanks for sharing Louis,and please thank the men in the shipyard when you get the chance. In 1996 I was on vacation on the Azores,they have a very old tradition building whaling longboats,and some are still built but with the purpose of leisure and other fishing. They are built with the local trees called cryptomeria,that was imported from Japan many years ago,because they grow very fast in the climate there. As you might know,cryptomeria is a cedar type that is very light but strong,and is perfect for building boats. I can recommend traveling to the azores visiting sawmills,shipyards and the old whale hunting museum. They are fantastic boat builders. Just like you!
Love your videos mate. Wish I had known about you when I was at URI. Living in Scotland now. Building a St. Sails skiff for my local Coastal Rowing club. Come over and visit.
That's one of the best things about wooden boat building is that you can find international work crews at just about any boatyard even the smaller ones in far off places you wouldn't expect to find a "foreign" Shipwright. I mean, come on, a Frenchman and an American in a Chilean boat yard, working side by side with experienced Shipwrights and students? That is awesome! I can't make it to New York this Saturday, but would love to follow your journeys around the world and see some of your visits to other boatyards. Watching you build is great, but seeing other techniques, and similarities, from around the world is super interesting as well. Thanks, Lou, for sharing this with us. God Bless, fair winds, and following seas.
Lou , As always ---Really Awesome the work and contributions You and Your team give to the Wooden Boat (and Ship) World. These "Lou Goes To Chile "video series have enlightened and inspired Me. I was in the "Totally Unaware" category about this great Chilean Ship Building Industry. I recently attended the 47th annual "Tall Ships America" convention in St. Petersburg .Fla and told People about The Ship Building in Chile and nobody knew (They Do Now) about it. Great You and Your team are getting the word out. Steve Cross akaSuperAX
I'm glad you went to Chile. My first impression of Chile was the excellent fruit that comes from Chile. Grapes and particularly cherries. Then viewing the Military parades over the years on youtube and other videos on TH-cam shot by residents of Chile . So impressed that Chile is a modern progressive Counntry. Sorry to hear about the discontent of the recent protest apparently everything isn't well for the people of Chile and now you give me a different tour . I can't help it , Chile is a fascinating Country
Lou, you would be welcome on our tiny Greek Island of Agistri. Three generations of boatbuilders are working here. Grandfather Adonis, his son Vangelis and his son Adonis (Adonakis = little Adonis). I have a house for you to stay in which is 200 yards from the boatyard. Oh, and all the fish you can eat, plus all the wine you can drink.
Hi Lou, I am enjoying your series on the sport dory. Last night I noticed that you seem to have a JVD ( jugular venous distention). If you haven't been to the doctor in a while you could stop by any fire station and have an EMT check you out. The test is 10 seconds with a stethoscope. Thank you for all that you do. Captain Mike Boyle
There was a place in City Island, New York, that I would go to, and just watch them build boats. It had a great big glass front and you could just stand there for hours and watch them work. Must have been an amazing trip.
Thank you Lou for this great video of the boat builders in Chile. Those cypress logs are huge! Every boat builder has his methods as you point out but always like to share their story. I think that is what makes boat builders some of the friendliest people on the planet. Take care and have a great week ahead.
Interesting how those trawlers look a lot like the traditional Goelettes (French word for schooner) used on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec in the early part of the Twentieth Century. For those who are interested, several exemplars of these vessels can be seen at the quaint maritime museum located in St. Joseph sur la rive, about an hour's drive East of Quebec City.
i loved these videos! it was a great surprise watching videos from my country in your channel, thx for sharing this, and i hope you return to Chile to work some time shipbuilding in here, that'd be awesome. Saludos :D
There still be some boat shipyards in Greece, especially in koilada Peloponnese, that I'm sure that they will welcome you and have nice and creative time ! Thank you for all these wonderful information you share with us and God bless you and your family !
George ---This would be a Great Positive if All The Ship (and Boat) Yards would take a more Proactive "Look At Me" aspect in promotion and share information with the World to Promote and Publicize Wooden Boat (and Ship) . Sharing this information is a heck of a lot more important than being humble. Steve Cross akaSuperAX
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series Lou! Awesome to see how people from different places do the same thing - and how open they are to share how they work. Thanks for sharing!
When are you getting back to those wonderful boat building videos you did in your shop? I was fascinated and entertained. I loved those and gave watch them again and again. I learned so much and I’ve been a woodworker and finish carpenter for 25 years. Thank you for doing what you do
I loved your comment about how you learn more about people when sharing a meal together than at any other time. I could not agree more---no matter the cultural or language barrier differences. As a human species, we all need sustenance for our bodies and minds and there is no better way to achieve this than "breaking bread", especially over a meal like the one you enjoyed with your new found Chilean friends.
Such a great video guys! My favorite out of the Chili series. Would be so cool to see you travel to various places around the U.S. and Europe. Can't wait to see what you post next...
Always great to see you and what you are doing with like minded people around boats and the building of wooden boats. Just great. Thank you for your enthusiasm and passion for your work and craft is really something to behold.
Hi Lou, Thank you so much for making such an interesting series of programs. If you ever get the chance, if you haven’t already, come to the UK and meet Luke Powell and see his amazing pilot cutter Pellew.
I am so happy to be watching new videos from you again. So happy. Be healthy and well, Lou. Looking forward to more. Just watched the Acorn to Arabella episode. Happy to see they could also learn from your wisdom :)
Wonderfull video Lou glaid you are back, even though I never met you it feels like seeing a good friend again ;) Your passion for boats and craftmanship impresses me. Greetings from a boat owner from The Netherlands 👋
Lou. the almost perfect chainsaw cuts are done by only cutting an inch at a time .. they were trying to get that to you but it got lost in translation.. when you only cut an inch deep.. you control the cut.. when you cut full bar deep the chain controls the direction of the cut by how much slop is in the chain and guide groove on the bar. . thats brilliant of them to figure that out.. there is a way around it allowing you to cut full depth... new chains and new bars so the chain with a factory grind is the only one used for full depth cuts.. also invest in the Stihl chainsaw sharpener to match your chain pitch.. they call it a "Stihl 2 in 1 Filing Guide" when you sharpen your chains with that.. look carefully at the chips that come out of the cut.. instead of saw dust it comes out as curls like you took a hand plane thru the cut.
Hi Lou, I find it interesting why the yard makes wooden fishing boats and not steel for example? Is it a passion for wooden boats or it's just more practical in wood where they they are? Cheers Steve from UK
Lou so glad to see you back at it you have such passion for your craft you remind me of my grandpa he was such a great master craftsmen he himself built many boats in his garage that us grand kids took out on roquette lake in the Adirondacks on our family camping trips hope all continues well for you hope to see new boat building videos soon take care
I really wish I had seen this video earlier. I'm sitting in my apartment in NYC and I would have loved the opportunity to meet Lou and learn all I could from him, hear his stories, Etc. I'm going to make sure that bell is working from now on!
Another fantastic video mate! My thing was logs homes until my late years. i now have a new interest in the art of boat building. Had a opportunity years back to look into a "boats maine apprenticeship". That gave me the bug. I am too old to get my hands dirty in some building but, I sooo appreciate the art that I want to learn even if I cant build.
Hi! Lou.. you inspire of what your doing it's my childhood dream to build my own boat and you've given me ideas on how to build one and I thank you for that..God bless..Lou😊
*Wonderful video. What fun. Yup, you would pick up building with a chainsaw alone within a week's time. It is slow and takes strength and patience, but the cost benefit is huge when you don't have a sawmill or a Woodmizer horizontal band saw or an Alaskan Saw mill set up, OR a Ship's band saw because of the expense of those things ... that's for sure.*
Lou it looks like you had an amazing time ,as I tell my sons we are always learning new things even if it's a different way of doing things we already know differently.
Hi Lou, I was asked once who would I have dinner with if I could choose anyone in the world. My answer was Lou the shipwright. Keep up with the videos, they are the next best thing to a dinner.
A little after 19:00 a big black bird flies under the camera, then it;s shadow passes on the ground - very auspicious. Not the high point of the video - the disk - and probably not unrelated. I like timber, chainsawing, boats, travel, people, black sand beaches, and Lou, but the food just made me salivate. Happy trails!
I saw in the comments section that it would be Awesome to see Lou Salazar and Leo Goolden together on a Video ,probably at The Yacht Tally Ho . Since Leo is one of my friends and professional associates , I sent Leo an email asking about this. Leo said He would be glad to meet Lou anywhere especially at The Yacht Tally Ho. I hope this happens soon. Steve Cross akaSuperAX.
Those wide bows remind me of the old dutch fishing vessels called "botters''. They where especially designed for steep short waves. These fishing boats had no standing rigging to hold up the mast.
Love watching your love of boatbuilding. Maybe you could go spend some time with Leo on the Tally Ho project or even the boys In Bristol at his home shipyard that are building the Pilot Cutters.
I am trully glad you enjoyed the craftsmanship in chile, seems you missed the shipyards in the island of Chiloé, they "carpinteros de ribera" still use the traditional methods for building sail boats, they have a proud tradition dating hundreds of years
Hey I'd love to see you at Nosy bee in Madagascar. It's one of the last places where all the industry between the islands is still don with wooden sailboats, and they move tones up on tones of freight on even the smallest of craft but they do these huge wooden ships and all the town come out to pull them down the ramp. You would be in your element.
Incredible skills. Sure would like to see them cut in the varying angle on the planking. Isn't it enjoyable being around people as yourself? Cheers, Lee
Since i live in the land of the Eucalyptus tree, i am curious as to what species are used in ship building, so I found they grow Blue gums over there (Eucalyptus globulus,) and is red gum grown as well. Red gums are killers, large branches can fall on hot still days, i have seen it happen, often campers get killed because they put their tents under or near the rees. But that could happen with any large tree i suppose. Thanks for the great Video's Lou.
Very interesting Lou. So glad to see you again. The chainsaw work was amazing. I did wonder if they used any kind of jig, like an Alaskan mill on that enormous timber
I built a few wooden boats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The last one I built was an A-Class catamaran. 1/8" ply, stitch and glue, using copper wire, woven mat and epoxy resin on the "keel" join. Sort of semi WEST system. Very light and very strong. Bending the ply in two dimensions makes it very rigid. The technique has been supplanted by ultra-light, emotionless, plastic hulls built in factories. And the price of an A-Class catamaran has gone stratospheric. Ah, well. Mind you, I would have loved to sail the foiling A-Class catamarans, whatever the technology and whatever the price. I got a bit old. Have you ever explored this construction method, Lou?
Eucalyptus you say, cheers from the Great South Land the home of the Gum Tree. I have many big Blue Gums growing beside my house. The tallest hardwood trees known are Eucalyptus, 140 metres I think is the record.
Blue Gum is one of the best, www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/390299/Timber-in-Boatbuilding.pdf . www.boatdesign.net/threads/blue-gum-as-boatbuilding-wood.10556/ Cheers from Lake Macquarie.
I kind of hope that someone approaches you guys to make a documentary. I would love to see you guys go back with some of your gear to give them. Then have them come visit your boat yards.
Doug ---That would be a great video with Lou and Leo to educate and promote the Wooden Boat and Ship Building Industry (and Hobby) . I will sign on the petition " Lou and Leo Meet At The Tally Ho " . The segment "Milling Live Oak In The Deep South" that Leo recorded at My Sawmill and Area currently has the record (I am pretty sure) for views on Leo's "Tally Ho" channel at 700,000 views but if Lou and Leo recorded a video that would smash that record. Let's keep it Going and tell (Ask) Lou and Leo to make this Video . Steve Cross akaSuperAx
That would be awesome. I'd also like to see Lou visit the Acorn to Arabella boat house. Alix and Steve could benefit from Lou's experience, and having Lou in the shop would be awesome to hear his comments and recommendations for the current stage of the build. I'd vote for either and/or both visits.
Great video. Love your enthusiasm. Do you know what species of Eucalypt they use there? We obviously use a lot of Eucalyptus here in Australia for commercial craft but my understanding is that Eucalyptus outside of Australia has been transplanted.
Here is a possibility Lou - check out these boat builders in Iran
th-cam.com/video/gfBXnhV1Zys/w-d-xo.html
Wouldn't recommend it at this time, especially after the assassination of one of their popular generals. Hopefully some day our two countries can work out their differences. Of course traveling internationally anywhere for the time being isn't going to be easy.
I can't imagine a better ambassador for America. Thanks for sharing
If there are trees and water, boats will be built, true in every corner of the planet.
Lou - I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed all of your videos. Thank you.
I seen a guy in a video on you tube, i think in Africa, the sawyer had an ancient Stihl contra chain saw, he used the same method, making a shallow kerf first then deepened it, the best part was that he had flip flops on. These (your videos) inspire me to make my you tube channel better, thank you posting and sharing!
Totally awesome techniques an bet that lunch was great
Keep sharing we love your experience to learn from
Nothing better than watching creative people doing their trade!
Real life beats Hollywood every time!
Thanks for sharing Louis,and please thank the men in the shipyard when you get the chance.
In 1996 I was on vacation on the Azores,they have a very old tradition building whaling longboats,and some are still built but with the purpose of leisure and other fishing.
They are built with the local trees called cryptomeria,that was imported from Japan many years ago,because they grow very fast in the climate there.
As you might know,cryptomeria is a cedar type that is very light but strong,and is perfect for building boats.
I can recommend traveling to the azores visiting sawmills,shipyards and the old whale hunting museum.
They are fantastic boat builders. Just like you!
If you like wooden boats the Egypt should be on your list of places to visit vast shipyards building wooden boats.
Love your videos mate. Wish I had known about you when I was at URI. Living in Scotland now. Building a St. Sails skiff for my local Coastal Rowing club. Come over and visit.
This episode is Awesome. Thank you.
That's one of the best things about wooden boat building is that you can find international work crews at just about any boatyard even the smaller ones in far off places you wouldn't expect to find a "foreign" Shipwright. I mean, come on, a Frenchman and an American in a Chilean boat yard, working side by side with experienced Shipwrights and students? That is awesome!
I can't make it to New York this Saturday, but would love to follow your journeys around the world and see some of your visits to other boatyards.
Watching you build is great, but seeing other techniques, and similarities, from around the world is super interesting as well. Thanks, Lou, for sharing this with us. God Bless, fair winds, and following seas.
I am glad you enjoyed my country 🤗
Lou , As always ---Really Awesome the work and contributions You and Your team give to the Wooden Boat (and Ship) World. These "Lou Goes To Chile "video series have enlightened and inspired Me. I was in the "Totally Unaware" category about this great Chilean Ship Building Industry. I recently attended the 47th annual "Tall Ships America" convention in St. Petersburg .Fla and told People about The Ship Building in Chile and nobody knew (They Do Now) about it. Great You and Your team are getting the word out. Steve Cross akaSuperAX
The bow reminds me of the Shannon RNLI bow shape. Love your enthusiasm friend!
Check out the wooden boat building in Kas Turkey! I went earlier this year and it was amazing to watch. Love these videos Lou!
Man Lou you consistently make videos that I'm honored to have watched when I get to the end.
We love living in Chile. So free and clean here. Jim in Chile
I'm glad you went to Chile. My first impression of Chile was the excellent fruit that comes from Chile. Grapes and particularly cherries. Then viewing the Military parades over the years on youtube and other videos on TH-cam shot by residents of Chile . So impressed that Chile is a modern progressive Counntry.
Sorry to hear about the discontent of the recent protest apparently everything isn't well for the people of Chile and now you give me a different tour . I can't help it , Chile is a fascinating Country
Lou, you would be welcome on our tiny Greek Island of Agistri. Three generations of boatbuilders are working here. Grandfather Adonis, his son Vangelis and his son Adonis (Adonakis = little Adonis). I have a house for you to stay in which is 200 yards from the boatyard. Oh, and all the fish you can eat, plus all the wine you can drink.
Really great series. Lou should come to North West Scotland - lots of wooden boat building happening here and designs unique to the area.
Hi Lou,
Really enjoyed seeing your video, and your enthusiasism is infectious. Great to hear people talk about their passion.
Regards,
Patrick
Great video
Hey Lou. You are a massive inspiration to me. last year I built myself a work skiff largely from your video series. Keep it up
Hi Lou, I am enjoying your series on the sport dory. Last night I noticed that you seem to have a JVD ( jugular venous distention). If you haven't been to the doctor in a while you could stop by any fire station and have an EMT check you out. The test is 10 seconds with a stethoscope. Thank you for all that you do. Captain Mike Boyle
There was a place in City Island, New York, that I would go to, and just watch them build boats. It had a great big glass front and you could just stand there for hours and watch them work. Must have been an amazing trip.
Thank you Lou for this great video of the boat builders in Chile. Those cypress logs are huge! Every boat builder has his methods as you point out but always like to share their story. I think that is what makes boat builders some of the friendliest people on the planet. Take care and have a great week ahead.
20 minutes of Lou in a sunny paradise...I'll take that. 😎
It looks like it would be fun teaching them new composite construction techniques. It looks like you had a great time meeting them and helping out.
Interesting how those trawlers look a lot like the traditional Goelettes (French word for schooner) used on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec in the early part of the Twentieth Century. For those who are interested, several exemplars of these vessels can be seen at the quaint maritime museum located in St. Joseph sur la rive, about an hour's drive East of Quebec City.
Ahhh. The mighty St. Lawrence. Home sweet home. My ancestors settled on the Isle de Montreal late 1600's to early 1700 Héry dit DuPlanty.
i loved these videos! it was a great surprise watching videos from my country in your channel, thx for sharing this, and i hope you return to Chile to work some time shipbuilding in here, that'd be awesome. Saludos :D
Lot of wooden boat builders in The Netherlands Lou. They'd love to have you I'm sure.
True, I know a few of them 😉
There still be some boat shipyards in Greece, especially in koilada Peloponnese, that I'm sure that they will welcome you and have nice and creative time ! Thank you for all these wonderful information you share with us and God bless you and your family !
George ---This would be a Great Positive if All The Ship (and Boat) Yards would take a more Proactive "Look At Me" aspect in promotion and share information with the World to Promote and Publicize Wooden Boat (and Ship) . Sharing this information is a heck of a lot more important than being humble. Steve Cross akaSuperAX
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series Lou! Awesome to see how people from different places do the same thing - and how open they are to share how they work. Thanks for sharing!
Lou I have see in YOU TUBE some wood boat building in Indonesia and is imprecing Nice to see you back
When are you getting back to those wonderful boat building videos you did in your shop? I was fascinated and entertained. I loved those and gave watch them again and again. I learned so much and I’ve been a woodworker and finish carpenter for 25 years. Thank you for doing what you do
I loved your comment about how you learn more about people when sharing a meal together than at any other time. I could not agree more---no matter the cultural or language barrier differences. As a human species, we all need sustenance for our bodies and minds and there is no better way to achieve this than "breaking bread", especially over a meal like the one you enjoyed with your new found Chilean friends.
Such a great video guys! My favorite out of the Chili series. Would be so cool to see you travel to various places around the U.S. and Europe. Can't wait to see what you post next...
Always great to see you and what you are doing with like minded people around boats and the building of wooden boats. Just great. Thank you for your enthusiasm and passion for your work and craft is really something to behold.
Travelling and mucking in - that's how you make friends of the World! Brilliant...
Hi Lou,
Thank you so much for making such an interesting series of programs.
If you ever get the chance, if you haven’t already, come to the UK and meet Luke Powell and see his amazing pilot cutter Pellew.
It has been utterly fabulous! Thank you so much. Great videography that could not be narrated any better by anyone besides Lou.
I am so happy to be watching new videos from you again. So happy. Be healthy and well, Lou. Looking forward to more. Just watched the Acorn to Arabella episode. Happy to see they could also learn from your wisdom :)
So glad you had this experience, Lou! What a wonderful time you must have had.
Wonderfull video Lou glaid you are back, even though I never met you it feels like seeing a good friend again ;)
Your passion for boats and craftmanship impresses me.
Greetings from a boat owner from The Netherlands 👋
Lou. the almost perfect chainsaw cuts are done by only cutting an inch at a time .. they were trying to get that to you but it got lost in translation.. when you only cut an inch deep.. you control the cut.. when you cut full bar deep the chain controls the direction of the cut by how much slop is in the chain and guide groove on the bar. . thats brilliant of them to figure that out.. there is a way around it allowing you to cut full depth... new chains and new bars so the chain with a factory grind is the only one used for full depth cuts.. also invest in the Stihl chainsaw sharpener to match your chain pitch.. they call it a "Stihl 2 in 1 Filing Guide" when you sharpen your chains with that.. look carefully at the chips that come out of the cut.. instead of saw dust it comes out as curls like you took a hand plane thru the cut.
Hi Lou, I find it interesting why the yard makes wooden fishing boats and not steel for example? Is it a passion for wooden boats or it's just more practical in wood where they they are? Cheers Steve from UK
Great to see more and more wooden boats being built all round the world,thanks Lou for bringing us these videos🙂
I love his passion for this topic. I love his respect for other craftsman.
Lou so glad to see you back at it you have such passion for your craft you remind me of my grandpa he was such a great master craftsmen he himself built many boats in his garage that us grand kids took out on roquette lake in the Adirondacks on our family camping trips hope all continues well for you hope to see new boat building videos soon take care
Roquette Lake? Or Raquette Lake? As in Raquette River.
I really wish I had seen this video earlier. I'm sitting in my apartment in NYC and I would have loved the opportunity to meet Lou and learn all I could from him, hear his stories, Etc. I'm going to make sure that bell is working from now on!
Spectacular filming 👏🏻👏🏻
Another fantastic video mate! My thing was logs homes until my late years. i now have a new interest in the art of boat building. Had a opportunity years back to look into a "boats maine apprenticeship". That gave me the bug. I am too old to get my hands dirty in some building but, I sooo appreciate the art that I want to learn even if I cant build.
Hi! Lou.. you inspire of what your doing it's my childhood dream to build my own boat and you've given me ideas on how to build one and I thank you for that..God bless..Lou😊
Love your enthusiasm Lou...you da man!!!!!
Wow, that was a treat. Thanks for the warmth.
Glad you're back, Lou. Was pretty worried for the last year.
Fabulous series Lou. Love seeing wooden boat building in Chile. Keep up the good work. Thanks!
A real pleasure to watch this journey you are on
*Wonderful video. What fun. Yup, you would pick up building with a chainsaw alone within a week's time. It is slow and takes strength and patience, but the cost benefit is huge when you don't have a sawmill or a Woodmizer horizontal band saw or an Alaskan Saw mill set up, OR a Ship's band saw because of the expense of those things ... that's for sure.*
Big wooden boat yard in Bahrain you should visit. Close to the airport you can see from the highway. Love to see you visit that one.
Lou it looks like you had an amazing time ,as I tell my sons we are always learning new things even if it's a different way of doing things we already know differently.
Thanks for the video Lou! Glad you had a fantastic time down there in Chile.
Hi Lou, I was asked once who would I have dinner with if I could choose anyone in the world. My answer was Lou the shipwright. Keep up with the videos, they are the next best thing to a dinner.
LOU, fantastic video.... makes one want to travel to Chili, begin my apprenticeship.
are there plans to go back to the shop for another build?
Sure hope so
Glad to see you back
A Chilean low country boil!! Awesome!!!
Great job Lou! Always enjoy your programs. William Arthur-Architect/Builder
A little after 19:00 a big black bird flies under the camera, then it;s shadow passes on the ground - very auspicious.
Not the high point of the video - the disk - and probably not unrelated. I like timber, chainsawing, boats, travel, people, black sand beaches, and Lou, but the food just made me salivate. Happy trails!
Looks like a great trip. Thanks for the videos. Time to build another boat!
I saw in the comments section that it would be Awesome to see Lou Salazar and Leo Goolden together on a Video ,probably at The Yacht Tally Ho . Since Leo is one of my friends and professional associates , I sent Leo an email asking about this. Leo said He would be glad to meet Lou anywhere especially at The Yacht Tally Ho. I hope this happens soon. Steve Cross akaSuperAX.
Great work Lou, can’t wait to see what projects you’ve got for this year.
What a wonderful experience.
Those wide bows remind me of the old dutch fishing vessels called "botters''. They where especially designed for steep short waves. These fishing boats had no standing rigging to hold up the mast.
Love watching your love of boatbuilding. Maybe you could go spend some time with Leo on the Tally Ho project or even the boys In Bristol at his home shipyard that are building the Pilot Cutters.
Send a video to the University showing the steaming of planks in the bag in place on the frame.
A picture is worth a thousand words! 😃 👍
Lou, I've seen some videos of boat building in Vietnam, I think you would really enjoy that country also.
Great video Lou!!!! Back to the shop now and get building!!! 😀
I am trully glad you enjoyed the craftsmanship in chile, seems you missed the shipyards in the island of Chiloé, they "carpinteros de ribera" still use the traditional methods for building sail boats, they have a proud tradition dating hundreds of years
Hey I'd love to see you at Nosy bee in Madagascar. It's one of the last places where all the industry between the islands is still don with wooden sailboats, and they move tones up on tones of freight on even the smallest of craft but they do these huge wooden ships and all the town come out to pull them down the ramp. You would be in your element.
My great grandfather was K.V. Kruse whose shipyards were in Coos Bay, Oregon. He was from Denmark.
Lou you have to build more boat. I hope to se it soon
Great video Lou. Hope to see you in a new shop, building a new boat and passing on your skills.
Incredible skills. Sure would like to see them cut in the varying angle on the planking.
Isn't it enjoyable being around people as yourself?
Cheers, Lee
Since i live in the land of the Eucalyptus tree, i am curious as to what species are used in ship building, so I found they grow Blue gums over there (Eucalyptus globulus,) and is red gum grown as well.
Red gums are killers, large branches can fall on hot still days, i have seen it happen, often campers get killed because they put their tents under or near the rees. But that could happen with any large tree i suppose. Thanks for the great Video's Lou.
Very interesting Lou. So glad to see you again. The chainsaw work was amazing. I did wonder if they used any kind of jig, like an Alaskan mill on that enormous timber
I built a few wooden boats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The last one I built was an A-Class catamaran. 1/8" ply, stitch and glue, using copper wire, woven mat and epoxy resin on the "keel" join. Sort of semi WEST system. Very light and very strong. Bending the ply in two dimensions makes it very rigid.
The technique has been supplanted by ultra-light, emotionless, plastic hulls built in factories. And the price of an A-Class catamaran has gone stratospheric. Ah, well.
Mind you, I would have loved to sail the foiling A-Class catamarans, whatever the technology and whatever the price. I got a bit old.
Have you ever explored this construction method, Lou?
The dinghy being built is a Snipe, designed by William F Crosby in 1931, USA
Eucalyptus you say, cheers from the Great South Land the home of the Gum Tree.
I have many big Blue Gums growing beside my house. The tallest hardwood trees known are Eucalyptus, 140 metres I think is the record.
Blue Gum is one of the best, www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/390299/Timber-in-Boatbuilding.pdf . www.boatdesign.net/threads/blue-gum-as-boatbuilding-wood.10556/ Cheers from Lake Macquarie.
Very interesting. Reminds me of a wooden fishing boat yard I went to in Vietnam, near Hoi An. You should visit there.
I kind of hope that someone approaches you guys to make a documentary. I would love to see you guys go back with some of your gear to give them. Then have them come visit your boat yards.
Good one Lou! Love the low-tech approach!
The bluff bow reminds me of the old Spanish galleon !
Would you consider flying over to the north west coast. I reckon you a Leo from the Tally Ho project would create some phenomenal content.
Doug ---That would be a great video with Lou and Leo to educate and promote the Wooden Boat and Ship Building Industry (and Hobby) . I will sign on the petition " Lou and Leo Meet At The Tally Ho " . The segment "Milling Live Oak In The Deep South" that Leo recorded at My Sawmill and Area currently has the record (I am pretty sure) for views on Leo's "Tally Ho" channel at 700,000 views but if Lou and Leo recorded a video that would smash that record. Let's keep it Going and tell (Ask) Lou and Leo to make this Video . Steve Cross akaSuperAx
Omg I would love to see a little collaboration with those two!
Great idea
That would be awesome. I'd also like to see Lou visit the Acorn to Arabella boat house. Alix and Steve could benefit from Lou's experience, and having Lou in the shop would be awesome to hear his comments and recommendations for the current stage of the build.
I'd vote for either and/or both visits.
What a great idea!
Nice report Lou, I'm not surprised that they noticed you drooling on that chainsaw :)
love seeing lou . give him a pay rise!!
I love the enthusiasm!!!!
Great video. Love your enthusiasm. Do you know what species of Eucalypt they use there? We obviously use a lot of Eucalyptus here in Australia for commercial craft but my understanding is that Eucalyptus outside of Australia has been transplanted.
Native to Australia , Tasmania & a few small close islands only.
Thanks Lou, now I want to go to Chile.
Thanks Lou for the Great video .
At 4.47 just look at the timbers that form the side rails. Wow!