You should do a documentary on these guys (or have one done), especially the old guy. I'd be fascinated to know specifics about his upbringing and life.
I strongly recommend to pull the masts and inspect them. Also you should think of replacing the standing rigging. Your technique of sealing the deck- mast joint is more common in fishing vessel. There the working mast is usually built in. At sailing ships usually the mast is centered by using wooden wedges and sealed with a thick rubber "skirt".
Welcome. Often in your films there is an elderly man who pulls all the work. Great respect for him and of course for you for the entire renovation. You make dreams come true and it's great. I am with you and I keep my fingers crossed.
MP, you have on your team probably the the most senior of you all, please would you convey to him how much I enjoy his work he really is one of the old school masters of a time when men could build a boat by eye, just let him know he is much appreciated as far as Australia
This crew is displaying real craftsmanship. Nothing seems to be beyond them. It is incredible how they can turn a plain board into a bench or a bulwark, a swim deck or a pillar. Amazing skills!
I will say it again. The workmanship is unbelievable. I have been doing woodworker for almost 40 years and I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos.
Another great vid . Always amazing how Nezo takes on every task with complete concentration and focus . He moves from one step to another and the finish product is cabinet shop quality . He is a master carpenter and I've worked in construction for 50 years . Yaba will be a fine sailing vessel with his magical touch !
I truly look forward to the weekly "updates" on the remarkable progress you, and your entire crew of shipwrights, are making in "Resurrecting Yaba". That said, watching Nezo - always with a dangling cigarette - wield power tools with the same skill, and apparent accuracy, demanded of a surgeon with a scalpel is astounding! Cheers from Canada!
I've suggested in here before that they should do a documentary on these guys, especially him. I'd be fascinated to know specifics about his upbringing and life.
the craftsmanship of these gentlemen is just amazing. What they are doing is great old school art work. That will last so much longer than todays standards!
Use a split industrial excavator boot and put it at the base of your mast. You couls also use butylene windshield tape, thay stiff is flexible amd sticky
Interesting to see another method of installing mast partners. I would have made the hole larger and then tightened the mast using wooden wedges (wedges allow you to adjust the mast fore and aft and side to side if needed) and then applied a canvas mast boot that is sealed with oil based paint. Learn something every day!
Hi this is Matt from Australia, Make a stainless steel tube around the mast then another stainless steel around the stainless tube with a base plate. Cheers, Matt I love your channel.
Be Advised ~ That mast log is pretty old and I would think twice about loading it up in a storm. Where it went through the deck was rotten all around and I can't see anything good coming of it in the wood around the mast at deck level. Stained wood on the mast is just the start of rot.
Pretty soon you will be pondering your minds on what to choose for a next destination. There are so many places, with sooo many nice people😁💪 Hang on in there,she is looking gorgious already❤ love from us
sailing Yaba .... please share your videos soon. I follow you from Turkey. I am eagerly waiting for the YABA to end.YABA is reborn. will live for at least another 50 years. Glad you have given life to YABA again. and the masters who gave life to YABA are magnificent. brought to life by hand. good luck to you and your masters.May the sea be clear and the wind abundant.
I hope you are going to carve a better profile on the rudder than what looked like a rectangle on the original? It should have something like an 'ANSI' profile. A flat slab is very inefficient in the water. Love your work! 🙂
Hi, Try to watch salt and tar. How they was make there mast closed so no water came in. Follow your 2 every week what amazing team and what a skill Wish your luck Regards Brian Kungshamn Sweden
For the mast most use a canvas boot that would extend about a foot up the mast and about 8” circle on the deck. This joint is going to flex and this solution has worked well. Good luck.
Hi love you guys.I would suggest epoxy and 1/8 plywood around 8 layerers about 1 and a half wide and then a narrow 1 and a quarter two layers and then back to two layers 1 and a half wide.This will make a drip edge away from the mast hole like the exterior trim under a house window but in a circle around your mast.All the best you guys 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🏴☠️🏁🎤
Roof boot flashing kits work great for the mast.. it was made for piping going through water tight roofs but work perfect for masts as well.. they are rubber and will move with the sway as well. Stays water tight!
Who knew that one of the biggest adventures was done in a drydock? You've made friends and many memories, and although I don't know you personally a friend from Maine. I admire your dedication and fearlessness when approaching this entire rebuild. Not to mention you've gained friends at the dock including a new family member. That makes Yaba a win and priceless in my book. You took a lemon and made lemonade my friends.
For 1 year I've been watching this youtube for shipbuilding. I am amazed that the special and old man is a professional craftsman. Respect. How old is he? I estimate her about 65 years old. Best regards from Germany.
Good evening from Tasmania Australia, yaba is progressing beautifully, I know you are looking forward to seeing her in the water soon but I’ll miss watching your carpenters working on her
Look at Salt & Tar, episodes 86 and 87 and perhaps others re stepping mast, mast collar and how to waterproof. Basically, the mast collar does not touch the mast. True up with wedges. Then seal with either leather or canvas covered with pitch. That allows some flexing and prevents cracking and rot of the kind you see on Yaba. You might also consider contacting Leo of TallyHo. He's an experienced boat builder and might be able to give you some guidance.
I have seen a leather boot on the deck encircling the mast, then covered with pitch making sure it is sealed top and bottom. This will allow your mast to flex without leaking. Maybe better ideals out their but I can't think of one myself, this is the best option I know of. Love your boat and all you guys are doing.
That is probably the most ubiquitous system ever devised. A leather sheath is also a good gasket fitted dry and impregnated with tallow and beeswax. While very hot.
I also did see on several places that they had wedges all around the mast to centre and lock the mast in position. The skirt is I think the best option.
These builders are amazing. I always think what if these guys had new tools with new technology? How fast and productive they could be but then I think how interesting it is to watch them this way and see that they don’t need it. But would love to be able to give it to them just because they deserve it and anything to help them be more productive and show off their awesome skills.
I watch another boat being built called Rediviva they used a leather or canvas boot to allow flex. Best of luck love watching this beauty brought back to glory.
MP & Ben, You need a skilled mast rigger, to retune the mast, in the vid it moved. It is very easy to lift a mast up a foot or so to fit a rubber gulet around the bottom of the mast and then slide it up above the deck head, then fit your wood around and slide the gulet down filling the gap. But I know it's too late as the work been completed, next time the job needs to be done, you have an idea what to do
Sea ho! By all vast oceans, finally I’m in boat shopping mode. Time is not enough to enjoy all your episodes at the moment. We’ll catch up later. Fair winds m8s!
Wedge the mast into center of the new deck pass threw planking and you might want go from port to starboard with a long plank, put leather or rubber boot to seal out water, and knotch the base into good wood too. Love what you are doing, the older gentleman is a master and you guys are beautiful people👍
Hi Ben & MP Been enjoying your videos from the start. There is no way to completely stop the hole for the mast fom leaking. Mention to your shiprights that they can put a rubber boot around the mast which will stop the water leaking and still allow the necessary movement of the mast. Good luck.
Watch Salt and Tar "stepping the mast"... what you do for the water dam is use some heavy tar cloth and seal it with whatever they used. It wont leak there anymore. Rediviva is also a wooden boat with wooden masts. The cloth collar is flexible somewhat and it fits over the wooden collar at the base and goes up a ways and fastens to the mast itself up above the root. No way for water ingress. The way your mast is solid mounted like that is good but it's always going to flex a bit around that collar. Putting the flexible water dam on it will stop it from letting water in that crack.
and even more important.... it's easy to change the cloth. no woodwork or rebuilding parts needed. by having the mast only clamped with wedges it can dry out instead of staying wet.
The wood from Brazil is so amazing and very unfamiliar to me! No wonder they have such long rich history of shipbuilding. I wish I could learn more about it! 🙂 (And we know you guys get certified wood and are very careful about what wood you use and where it comes from, which is also nice.) 💨⛵
You guys get the nicest peices of lumber on TH-cam. The boat has come such a long way your definitely lucky to have found the guys with the skills that can still do this type of work. Looking forward to seeing you in the water.
I would suggest to dry the mast and then put V4A steel plate around with epoxy to keep it from beeing affected by moisture there. Then put the two half rings from the hardest wood you have around and leave a 0.5 cm gap between it and the mast and fill it with Sikaflex to have it flexible sealed. Cheers Marc
I really do have a hard time comprehending just how talented these men are. More amazed as the details really come together. Thanks Ben and MP for sharing this journey. 💕
To stop leaks around the mast, look at a metal boot with flange secured to the deck and a flexible gaitor secure to both the mast and the top of the metal boot. Usually they are each made in one piece and fitted to the mast / deck prior to stepping the mast, unless you want to unstep the mast, you would need to make each in several parts and seal with butyl tape, material welding. Then it's important to stop the mast moving relative to the deck, usually custom wedges are used.
For your mast seal, if you can move the chromed Line anchor collar up a bit, and install a rubber seal that would be in the shape of a funnel. So the small end is Around the mast and the large end is attached to the outside of a raised collar that would be fiberglass to the roof.
I have also used a rubber boot to seal a wooden mast. The boot was cut out from an old innertube for a tractor tire and then chemically vulcanized when surrounding the mast. It worked very well untill the UV rays made the rubber crack. Version 2.0 was made the same way but with canvas on top as an UV protective layer in addition.
Make a cone out of heavy canvas and clamp it to the mast and then put a ring on the deck surface or roof surface and attach the canvas to that ring saturate with tar or some other water Proofing material. You can see this method being used on TH-cam channel “salt and tar” In the episodes where they step the mast.
pour votre probleme de joint entre le mat et le pont, vous devriez faire une recherche sur la façon dont était fait les jupes de pied de mâts pour bateau traditionnel. for your problem of seal between the mast and the deck, you should do a search on how the skirts of foot of masts for traditional boat were made.
With woodworm such a problem in your area, wrapping the hull and rudder in synthetic fabric designed to stop 'Shipworm' will keep your hull sound for many decades. And a simple wax impregnated or tar coated canvas boot is the traditional method of sealing the mast thru-deck opening. Clamped to the mast and nailed to a wooden ring fixed to the deck, it will seal out the sea and rain...
Great easy-going attitude you got here. Keep making it real for yourselves!! Super great easy listening background music with the task sound mixed in!! Doing a supercalifragilistic job!! All the best from Surrey BC Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support John! 😍
The senior member of your crew seems to be a jack of all trades and a master of every one of them.
Nezo is an artist. Visualizes the product constantly from concept to final product. Definitely a master shipwright.
My favourite TH-cam channel. Imagine doing all this in the old days without power tools. Nezo is my hero.
Thank you!! Nezo is our hero too! 😍
Nezo looks a little different but nice, Oh! he has been to the hairdresser, he is the master of masters in boat building.
You should do a documentary on these guys (or have one done), especially the old guy. I'd be fascinated to know specifics about his upbringing and life.
I strongly recommend to pull the masts and inspect them. Also you should think of replacing the standing rigging. Your technique of sealing the deck- mast joint is more common in fishing vessel. There the working mast is usually built in. At sailing ships usually the mast is centered by using wooden wedges and sealed with a thick rubber "skirt".
Welcome.
Often in your films there is an elderly man who pulls all the work. Great respect for him and of course for you for the entire renovation. You make dreams come true and it's great. I am with you and I keep my fingers crossed.
Sanding, painting, and varnishing... this is your life now, the joys of wooden boat ownership 😉
MP, you have on your team probably the the most senior of you all, please would you convey to him how much I enjoy his work he really is one of the old school masters of a time when men could build a boat by eye, just let him know he is much appreciated as far as Australia
This crew is displaying real craftsmanship. Nothing seems to be beyond them. It is incredible how they can turn a plain board into a bench or a bulwark, a swim deck or a pillar. Amazing skills!
They need to tighten up that chainsaw chain - it's only touching the bar in a few places!
Mad skills of those guys cutting out the shape in 15cm thick timber with a bandsaw.!! Fantastic to watch. Awesome..!
Best boat rebuilding show on youtube, love it
Thank you! 😍
Rubber around the mast fastened at the top and bottom
I will say it again. The workmanship is unbelievable. I have been doing woodworker for almost 40 years and I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos.
That’s amazing to read! Thank you!
You should check out
Salt & Tar,see how their mast was sealed to the deck.
You need a flexible rubber boot to seal around the mast and down to the housetop, allowing the mast to move.
Thick leather boot covered in tar or pitch, how they used to do it in the old days will seal it and still be flexible good luck
Another great vid . Always amazing how Nezo takes on every task with complete concentration and focus . He moves from one step to another and the finish product is cabinet shop quality . He is a master carpenter and I've worked in construction for 50 years . Yaba will be a fine sailing vessel with his magical touch !
I agree
The old school technical craftsmanship is amazing.
I see the captain was inspecting the rudder.
You are funny MP, love it. Cheers
You should get those guys another round of shirts they've earned it
Man that older guy is such a hard worker he does some fine details on your boat congrats love your channel
I truly look forward to the weekly "updates" on the remarkable progress you, and your entire crew of shipwrights, are making in "Resurrecting Yaba". That said, watching Nezo - always with a dangling cigarette - wield power tools with the same skill, and apparent accuracy, demanded of a surgeon with a scalpel is astounding! Cheers from Canada!
I've suggested in here before that they should do a documentary on these guys, especially him. I'd be fascinated to know specifics about his upbringing and life.
the craftsmanship of these gentlemen is just amazing. What they are doing is great old school art work. That will last so much longer than todays standards!
Any comments on budget ?
I think you could buy 2 brandnew ships what they do now on restauration this vessel.
True ?
I hope the shipwrights are making as much as you are
I don't know about anyone else, but I measure the 'progress' in haircuts and moustaches ;)
The more I watch the more I wonder how it stayed together on the 250 mile voyage. Great job by all
Use a split industrial excavator boot and put it at the base of your mast. You couls also use butylene windshield tape, thay stiff is flexible amd sticky
Interesting to see another method of installing mast partners. I would have made the hole larger and then tightened the mast using wooden wedges (wedges allow you to adjust the mast fore and aft and side to side if needed) and then applied a canvas mast boot that is sealed with oil based paint. Learn something every day!
Epoxy fiberglass would be your friend for reducing wooden rudder penetration and for reducing deck cracks at the mast. It would require thick layers.
Hi this is Matt from Australia,
Make a stainless steel tube around the mast then another stainless steel around the stainless tube with a base plate.
Cheers,
Matt
I love your channel.
I think that old rudder could be very decorative and valuable if planed. Worm word is great re-used.
Be Advised ~
That mast log is pretty old and I would think twice about loading it up in a storm. Where it went through the deck was rotten all around and I can't see anything good coming of it in the wood around the mast at deck level. Stained wood on the mast is just the start of rot.
Pretty soon you will be pondering your minds on what to choose for a next destination. There are so many places, with sooo many nice people😁💪 Hang on in there,she is looking gorgious already❤ love from us
sailing Yaba .... please share your videos soon. I follow you from Turkey. I am eagerly waiting for the YABA to end.YABA is reborn. will live for at least another 50 years. Glad you have given life to YABA again. and the masters who gave life to YABA are magnificent. brought to life by hand. good luck to you and your masters.May the sea be clear and the wind abundant.
I hope you are going to carve a better profile on the rudder than what looked like a rectangle on the original? It should have something like an 'ANSI' profile. A flat slab is very inefficient in the water. Love your work! 🙂
Hi,
Try to watch salt and tar. How they was make there mast closed so no water came in. Follow your 2 every week what amazing team and what a skill
Wish your luck
Regards
Brian
Kungshamn Sweden
On Salt & tar they have a canvas boot around the mast, maybe rope coated in tar & string coated interwoven may work?? 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
For the mast most use a canvas boot that would extend about a foot up the mast and about 8” circle on the deck. This joint is going to flex and this solution has worked well. Good luck.
Hi love you guys.I would suggest epoxy and 1/8 plywood around 8 layerers about 1 and a half wide and then a narrow 1 and a quarter two layers and then back to two layers 1 and a half wide.This will make a drip edge away from the mast hole like the exterior trim under a house window but in a circle around your mast.All the best you guys 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🏴☠️🏁🎤
Roof boot flashing kits work great for the mast.. it was made for piping going through water tight roofs but work perfect for masts as well.. they are rubber and will move with the sway as well. Stays water tight!
Another stunning display of crafting skills from your shipwrights.
I never find anything boring re. the filling and sanding ,or anything else. Just love it all !,
Just amazing to watch how a band saw and a chain saw are so skillfully used to produce parts both small and huge with stunning accuracy of fit!!!!!
Who knew that one of the biggest adventures was done in a drydock? You've made friends and many memories, and although I don't know you personally a friend from Maine. I admire your dedication and fearlessness when approaching this entire rebuild. Not to mention you've gained friends at the dock including a new family member.
That makes Yaba a win and priceless in my book.
You took a lemon and made lemonade my friends.
Thank you so much CJ!
Nezo … what an artist ! Cheers from France
And may God bless him now and in the New Years ahead!
Love its getting closer 💖😻💖
For 1 year I've been watching this youtube for shipbuilding. I am amazed that the special and old man is a professional craftsman. Respect. How old is he? I estimate her about 65 years old. Best regards from Germany.
The ship carpenters
Are more than amazing!
I've watched the entire
Rebuild their skill is unmatched.
Good evening from Tasmania Australia, yaba is progressing beautifully, I know you are looking forward to seeing her in the water soon but I’ll miss watching your carpenters working on her
I reckon nezo woody woodpecker and the whole crew should start there own vids Marty Australia
Hi guys, lots of love ❤ from India 🇮🇳.
Hope you'll your beautiful boat soon.
Great progress on the rudder. As usual things are going well under the supervision of master manager Mr Caio. Keep up the good work sir.
Lovely piece of wood for the rudder. Sorry about the mast problems. Keep your courage up. You have come so far👏👏👏
Thanks Mike!!
Accurately measuring many times before cutting!! Such skill and patience. Patience is what I lack.
Look at Salt & Tar, episodes 86 and 87 and perhaps others re stepping mast, mast collar and how to waterproof. Basically, the mast collar does not touch the mast. True up with wedges. Then seal with either leather or canvas covered with pitch. That allows some flexing and prevents cracking and rot of the kind you see on Yaba. You might also consider contacting Leo of TallyHo. He's an experienced boat builder and might be able to give you some guidance.
Good Morning from the mitten :-)
Good morning Thomas!
I have seen a leather boot on the deck encircling the mast, then covered with pitch making sure it is sealed top and bottom. This will allow your mast to flex without leaking. Maybe better ideals out their but I can't think of one myself, this is the best option I know of. Love your boat and all you guys are doing.
You can also make a canvas boot with tar.Take a look at the channel Salt and Tar - that's how they put up and waterproofed their boat
That is probably the most ubiquitous system ever devised. A leather sheath is also a good gasket fitted dry and impregnated with tallow and beeswax. While very hot.
Something like this: th-cam.com/video/voEg3mfTE9E/w-d-xo.html
I also did see on several places that they had wedges all around the mast to centre and lock the mast in position. The skirt is I think the best option.
@@davidmendoza6249 th-cam.com/video/0FOFtqPlft4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Salt%26Tar
These builders are amazing. I always think what if these guys had new tools with new technology? How fast and productive they could be but then I think how interesting it is to watch them this way and see that they don’t need it. But would love to be able to give it to them just because they deserve it and anything to help them be more productive and show off their awesome skills.
Brasil will always hold a special place in my heart. Good luck with your ship and safe travels . Respect from Texas ❤
I watch another boat being built called Rediviva they used a leather or canvas boot to allow flex. Best of luck love watching this beauty brought back to glory.
Very good build! Everyone is working very hard and well together!!
At 26:06 I think the correct word is “ hydrodynamic” lol! 🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️❤️🙏🏻👍🏻
MP & Ben,
You need a skilled mast rigger, to retune the mast, in the vid it moved.
It is very easy to lift a mast up a foot or so to fit a rubber gulet around the bottom of the mast and then slide it up above the deck head, then fit your wood around and slide the gulet down filling the gap. But I know it's too late as the work been completed, next time the job needs to be done, you have an idea what to do
I always love seeing another part of Yabá come to life.
Sea ho!
By all vast oceans, finally I’m in boat shopping mode. Time is not enough to enjoy all your episodes at the moment. We’ll catch up later. Fair winds m8s!
Awesome!! Good luck!!!
Wedge the mast into center of the new deck pass threw planking and you might want go from port to starboard with a long plank, put leather or rubber boot to seal out water, and knotch the base into good wood too. Love what you are doing, the older gentleman is a master and you guys are beautiful people👍
Look like it all decided good luck.
Hi Ben & MP Been enjoying your videos from the start. There is no way to completely stop the hole for the mast fom leaking. Mention to your shiprights that they can put a rubber boot around the mast which will stop the water leaking and still allow the necessary movement of the mast. Good luck.
Bom dia MP , Ben e Calhou.😊
Watch Salt and Tar "stepping the mast"... what you do for the water dam is use some heavy tar cloth and seal it with whatever they used. It wont leak there anymore. Rediviva is also a wooden boat with wooden masts. The cloth collar is flexible somewhat and it fits over the wooden collar at the base and goes up a ways and fastens to the mast itself up above the root. No way for water ingress. The way your mast is solid mounted like that is good but it's always going to flex a bit around that collar. Putting the flexible water dam on it will stop it from letting water in that crack.
That is exactly the Way to do it. If the Sun is too hard on the tar cloth, all you need to change, is the cloth. Cheap and Long lasting
th-cam.com/video/0FOFtqPlft4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Salt%26Tar
and even more important.... it's easy to change the cloth. no woodwork or rebuilding parts needed. by having the mast only clamped with wedges it can dry out instead of staying wet.
You can also add a vinyl boot over the top as a sacrificial protector.
The wood from Brazil is so amazing and very unfamiliar to me! No wonder they have such long rich history of shipbuilding. I wish I could learn more about it! 🙂
(And we know you guys get certified wood and are very careful about what wood you use and where it comes from, which is also nice.) 💨⛵
Looking great lots of progress!! Keep rolling Yaba crew!! 👍👍
You guys get the nicest peices of lumber on TH-cam. The boat has come such a long way your definitely lucky to have found the guys with the skills that can still do this type of work. Looking forward to seeing you in the water.
Put a rubber boot or canvas boot around the mast and deck that should help with the cracking
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. GOOD IDEA
I’d go with a canvas boot. Check out what Salt&Tar did with their through deck mast.
th-cam.com/video/1X_eouljHng/w-d-xo.html
What Ron said...
Thank you for the suggestion!
A canvass boot around the mast fitted with lashing and a wooden collar on the deck similarly fitted with a lashing. Always flexible and water tight
I would suggest to dry the mast and then put V4A steel plate around with epoxy to keep it from beeing affected by moisture there.
Then put the two half rings from the hardest wood you have around and leave a 0.5 cm gap between it and the mast and fill it with Sikaflex to have it flexible sealed.
Cheers Marc
I really do have a hard time comprehending just how talented these men are. More amazed as the details really come together. Thanks Ben and MP for sharing this journey. 💕
To stop leaks around the mast, look at a metal boot with flange secured to the deck and a flexible gaitor secure to both the mast and the top of the metal boot. Usually they are each made in one piece and fitted to the mast / deck prior to stepping the mast, unless you want to unstep the mast, you would need to make each in several parts and seal with butyl tape, material welding. Then it's important to stop the mast moving relative to the deck, usually custom wedges are used.
For your mast seal, if you can move the chromed Line anchor collar up a bit, and install a rubber seal that would be in the shape of a funnel. So the small end is Around the mast and the large end is attached to the outside of a raised collar that would be fiberglass to the roof.
I have also used a rubber boot to seal a wooden mast.
The boot was cut out from an old innertube for a tractor tire and then chemically vulcanized when surrounding the mast.
It worked very well untill the UV rays made the rubber crack.
Version 2.0 was made the same way but with canvas on top as an UV protective layer in addition.
Make a cone out of heavy canvas and clamp it to the mast and then put a ring on the deck surface or roof surface and attach the canvas to that ring saturate with tar or some other water Proofing material. You can see this method being used on TH-cam channel “salt and tar” In the episodes where they step the mast.
Good morning from the hills of Tennessee.
Good morning!!
You should probably poke around the mast where it's wet with an ice pick and get a feel of how much rot there actually is.
SALT AND TAR, video number 88, describe how to lock in mast and make water tight seal.
MP…. You are so adorable and I love those brown eyes!!! Good luck with the mast repair.
Thanks Stephen!
pour votre probleme de joint entre le mat et le pont, vous devriez faire une recherche sur la façon dont était fait les jupes de pied de mâts pour bateau traditionnel.
for your problem of seal between the mast and the deck, you should do a search on how the skirts of foot of masts for traditional boat were made.
A very good progress so far. Thanks for sharing all these with us !
The mast needs a flexible boot to keep it from leaking. Sikaflex and rubber should do it.
With woodworm such a problem in your area, wrapping the hull and rudder in synthetic fabric designed to stop 'Shipworm' will keep your hull sound for many decades. And a simple wax impregnated or tar coated canvas boot is the traditional method of sealing the mast thru-deck opening. Clamped to the mast and nailed to a wooden ring fixed to the deck, it will seal out the sea and rain...
The skills and knowledge of the wood workers is amazing they make it look so easy!!
Agreed! 😍
I sent the wrong link. This is 5he TH-cam channel I mentioned. th-cam.com/video/voEg3mfTE9E/w-d-xo.html cheers J.
I have seen people make a Leather boot to go around the bottom of the mast.
Put a rubber "donut" around the mast! Simple and efficient! I had one on my aluminium mast, that wasn´t round! You will find this gasket it to buy!
You can get a steel cap and plate for that mast, if you are replacing the mast it will be fine but not with the old mast!
Nice 1 watch your fingers and toes Ben! That was real good, thanks. You and yours stay safe and well!
Great easy-going attitude you got here. Keep making it real for yourselves!! Super great easy listening background music with the task sound mixed in!! Doing a supercalifragilistic job!!
All the best from Surrey BC Canada 🇨🇦
Mp you are looking great in this video
The term you are looking for is mast partners, which you can buy and will prevent water intrusion.
That is some seriously impressive bandsaw work on such a large piece of timber
MP try making a rubber seal out of an old car inner tube which will give you movement but also waterproofing.
put a rubber sleeve around the mast as it allows movement and keeps the water out