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Do you ever think to yourself "In 100 years, there's gonna be some Martian Power Tool Princess making her own all wooden Low-Earth Orbit rocket shuttle just to donate to the Mount Olympus Rocketry for Kids class"?
The Center for Wooden Boats are such good people! I learned to sail with them! You can learn to sail. They teach kids. They teach boatbuilding. They preserve and teach history, and bring old techniques into the future! Their new shop is amazing! They work to make sailing and boats accessible to groups it hasn't been accessible to before! They're truly truly excellent and it's awesome that you've worked with them and passed the boat on to them! Might have just inspired me to renew my pass with them and take Next Thursday out for a sail!
If you do enough volunteer hours with the center for wooden boats, you can earn a free family membership. It could be a simple as clearing the spider webs on a cool winter day. The Center for wooden boats always appreciates the help.
Just a note to all boat builders. If you drill or counter sink for screws after the piece has been painted or epoxied you need to treat that wood that's just been exposed with something to water/weather proof it. If you don't that's where the discolorations and delamination of the finish will start. Linseed oil, epoxy, or varnish will all work but you may never get the screw back out with the epoxy or varnish. Boiled linseed oil and similar finishes will need to be applied regularly.
I was going to write the same. If you paint the wood with epoxy or varnish and then drill holes in it later, you need to reseal the exposed wood. And no, silicone caulk won't cut it. I remember reading a scientific paper a few years ago, where several methods and products for sealing wood were compared. Wood samples were treated, fully immersed into water and the weight gain was recorded. The most effective way to seal wood was molten paraffin wax, three coats of epoxy being the close second best option. Molten paraffin of course has several drawbacks, like remelting of the wax and you can't really paint it, so SEVERAL coats of epoxy is actually the only viable option. Traditional methods like products based on linseed oil, acrylic and even polyurethane paints were much inferior. The problem with all this is of course, once water enters through cracks and holes the epoxy coating will trap it inside, the water can't really get out anymore. So the wood needs to be sealed perfectly, which is hard especially on larger, complicated structures. If you want your boat to potentially last a decade or more, all the screws and fasteners better be stainless steel, even when completely embedded in epoxy. For a boat that's out of the water, stored completely dry 95% of the time and isn't expected to last a long time galvanized might work, but considering all the work that goes into such a project just bite the bullet and get the good stuff.
Great point. Penetrations are where barrier failure or structural deterioration frequently begin and that's not just a "boat" principle. It matters on any substrate where exposure will create change - even just corrosion or oxidation (assuming sound assembly pre penetration and no other existing issues). Modification of a complete boat would be a key example of where a bunch of small failures all begin to contribute.
I worked on fighter jets in the AF, at the first part where you were twisting wires I was thinking that I was going to send you a pair of safety wire pliers. Until I saw that you were already ontop of it. Absolutely love your videos and look forward to the builds. It really makes this old man really happy to see that pure craftsman/womanship is not going to be lost with the younger generation. Cant wait to see what you build next.
When I was a kid, my Dad designed and built a bunch of sailboats, mostly for my brother who was a sailing kid. Most were plywood and fibreglass, much like yours, but he did move on to fibreglass and foam composite. The latter were very fast boats, and did help my brother to be overall winner in at least one season of sailing. But my favourite were the wooden boats, they just looked so good in full clear varnish. It was either the second boat or perhaps they renamed the first one after the first season, but it was called "One Slip" partially after the Pink Floyd song, but also because he made the deck out of too thin plywood, and my brother kept slipping and putting his knee through the deck, so it ended up covered in plywood patches. Anyway, you did a great job with your boat. I'm certain it will inspire many a young sailor to love the sport, let alone learn how to sail. It was fun watching you build it, even if it wasn't always fun building it for you. But most of all, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I loved this video, and all of your videos. I'm an old broke-down and disabled machinist. I'm now unable to make/build things. I get to "make" things vicariously through your vids, well, and the vids of other TH-camrs too. I so much enjoy watching your process. When you launched Next Thursday I seemed to get a bunch of dust in my eyes, or perhaps an allergy attack. It wasn't until the video was over till I managed to clear my eyes. Thanks Xyla, for bringing this old man joy. I'm looking forward to the next mischief you get yourself into. John
The screws going into the skeg from the inside will penetrate the epoxy barrier and be a source of rot as water gets in there. The Gougon recommendation is to drill an enlarged hole, fill with epoxy and then re-drill for screws once hardened. Gougeon brothers wrote the seminal work for wood and epoxy boat construction. (this goes for all the other screws as well of course) There are epoxies with UV blockers in the formula to protect against UV degradation of the epoxy. UV from the sun eats epoxy. Even here at 63 degrees North this is an issue, and I re-glassed my CLC Chesapeake 18 three years ago because I messed this up and the glass started to turn yellow before delaminating 🙂 I have never seen a CLC kit go together before. It was really interesting. Those pre-cut joints sure made things easier as there were no need for scarfing, but I wonder how they do when the plywood is stressed a lot as in some of their kayak kits. Perhaps they add a layer of glass on each side when gluing?
Anything that has exposed epoxy should be sanded and given a coat of poly. The poly will take a beating, but, much simpler to just repoly it now and then than to sand to virgin epoxy and then build it back up. Plus it looks nice.
The patience necessary to build half the stuff you make just amazes me. I would always be looking for shortcuts to the point where I'd drive myself and everyone around me crazy..
Shes like a mini Amazon, as in Swallows and Amazons: White lug sail, centre board, and ever so neat. 😊 Xyla, you're an inspiration to us all and I'm glad to be able to share your videos with my daughters, to show them how unstoppable a girl can be. Thank you!!
Being a retired QE processes have been a big portion of my life. I have watched dozens of CLC project builds. This one is certainly the best. How you bring your education and training into your projects is so gratifying. This makes watching your builds so much fun. Your quirky, off-the-shelf humor adds a lot, too. Thanks for sharing your passion.
Is this a "Total Boat" project?? Pun intended - LOL!! Many years ago in the 60's when I was in high school I worked for my whole high school career at a marina on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, Best job I ever had!! I even built and restored a wrecked racing hydroplane for my own racing use!! One of my jobs was repairing wooden water craft such as Chris Crafts etc for our dock renters. Remove caulking from the planking, replace it then fill the boat with water to swell the planking so it wouldn't sink when you put it in the river! No epoxy back in those days!! Just marine Spar varnish. I even got the chance to help restore a US WWII plywood PT boat and rebuild it's engines. It got converted into personal cabin cruiser. Fun job and many great memories!! Nice work guys! Xyla, ya got a great heart girl.
Why is anti-fouling not good if you're going to have the boat out of the water? Is it less resistant to scrapes than the paint you ended up with? (Also, I felt so sorry for you guys having to strip it all off and repaint it!)
If it's a biocide antifouling, I suspect that they don't want kids to touch it. Also, you cant paint over it with normal paint only antifouling, so they would have to remove it if they want the maintenance to be an educational activity. finally, some regions don't allow it to protect the wildlife. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with having antifouling as a top coat for the underwater part.
Also to add antifouling is generally a softer finish so you are correct in guessing that its less resistant to scuffs and scrapes which of course isnt ideal when its being pulled from the water often.
I'm with you on that, Xyla. Glassing is just as satisfying as pouring epoxy. Also, love the choice of scoring the video with Biddy Sullivan. One of my favorites.
Love that. I was a member of the Center for wooden boats for many years when I lived in Seattle. They are such an awesome organization. So glad you built them a boat.
This brought tears to my eyes, I built a wooden racing dingy with my Dad when I was 17, some of the best memories of my life just came flooding back. Thank you. She is beautiful. You should all be proud, WELL DONE! ❤
This was my favorite build of all of your builds Xyla. I love sailboats and sailing. Next you should combine your boat building skills and the new tiny home trend and design and build a live aboard yacht.
Maya and mainly Aladino from "Sailing Magic Carpet" also assembled/build such a Chesapeake boat for using it as a multi purpose dinghy. Best regards, luck and health in particular.
Probably not, she epoxied the boat together without wetting out the wood first. Leo, on occasion has explained how important it is to wet out wood before epoxy or resin joining.
I love your videos. Your enthusiasm comes through the screen. I especially like it when you go through problem solving issues that come up during each project.
This gave me such sweet nostalgia. I volunteered for the Center for Wooden Boats, years ago. I learned to sail on a little boat very much like what you just built. So very cool! Thanks for sharing, on so many levels.
Watching this it makes me remember my Grandfather who had built his own sailboat (in the middle of the Canadian prairies) and sailed it from Victoria to Hawaii and back. Thank you for this!
wonder if total boat would do a limited run of your purple in botal toat labelled cans? but as always your out there inspiring youngsters to just go for it
That was impressively awesome, holy cow! That project never ended, but when it did .......wow! Beautiful job and thanks for people like you to donate so much for a great program!
de Havilland Mosquito, a WOODEN world war 2 plane. original plans likely available online. on completion, sell it for about $5 million, even if it were painted purple.
She should get her hands on a Sonex, or an rv-12 kit! Aside from being enjoyable to watch, it would be a huge inspiration to a new generation of pilots!
Glad that you did this video using a kit. It really simplifies the build process and provides what levels of skill are required to build this fine vessel. Super job and the outcome is beautiful!
yup, negated all the work of the sealing of the wood, in fact with unsealed screw holes like that it's actually worse because she sealed the rest of the wood since moisture that goes in the screw holes will not be able to escape the wood and be trapped causing accelerated rotting vs if the wood around the holes was able to dry. Those screw holes will be the points it rots from.
Watching Xyla take a sip of the champagne with the bright water in the back and the beautiful finished boat beside her is like the visual representation of confident triumph, and I love it.
Dang, not sure I could tackle one of those pro-level kits, but you've definitely got me thinking about ordering a simpler one as a summer project with kids in a few years, looks like so much fun!
That is the best video I've seen in a while. 35 minutes went by so fast!!!! Congratulations to a beautiful boat, and the crew were absolutely wonderful and really into it; and no blood!!!!
So cool!! Now I can show my friends why I was getting excited about a boat (THIS BOAT) when we were out for a walk!! ⛵️ Love thissssss!! Also, Foxlin Fiberglassing School, or FFS…I like it. 😹
I loved this. Had laughs and warm fuzzies all the way through the video. Next Thursday is an awesome looking craft. You guys should be incredibly proud of her ❤🎉 P. S. I love the purple accents
As always, awesome job! And as a Seattleite who spends tons of time on Lake Union, thanks so much for building a boat for the Center for Wooden Boats. Love their education programs and their great collection of boats that has just gained a gorgeous one.
Started sailing in wooden boats when I was young, Fortunately I had metal spars where allowed as I spent a lot of time racing. I have had a lot of wooden boats and the care they need is a royal pain when a repaint is needed! SO cool to see the build process laid out like that, several of the boats I have owned were designed to be home built in a similar way.
I wonder if it’d be a nightmare to use some kind of expanding foam (like they use to seal and insulate homes) in those flotation cells instead of the cut foam sheet? It might fill the space more fully and not allow any water in.
That's definitely an acceptable technique. It can be tough if you don't have experience with it because over-filling can deform (or burst) the hull. Either option has down sides.
@@xylafoxlin that’s a great reason! Maybe an idea for them: use plastic bags to contain the foam? I’ve had a few things sent to me recently that had foam that was contained in bags as it expanded - conformed to the box and contents, and was easily removed. Maybe if you had another Thursday. 😜 Thanks for these videos. I’ve been wanting to work with fiberglass for a while, and I’ve watched and rewatched your videos.
@@toastrecon Your probably thinking of something like the Instapak products? A ready to use bag that you activate, then drop in the shipping box with whatever your packing? The foam inside it expands to shape around your item then sets. You end up with really nice packing foam moulded around your item. th-cam.com/video/PnKBIGv0CqU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Xyla for the amazing boat!! We have loved using it in our youth programs and it is such a fun boat to teach teens on We'd love to have you back at CWB when you're in Seattle next! I loveeeeee the custom purple!
Your best video yet! Yes, it’s as long as a regular TV program but the quality of content was well worth sitting down to watch. Well done to all concerned and especially Xyla.
"Next Thursday." Perfect! Beautiful boat, but would have gone with a lighter shade of purple...like boysenberry! Thanks so much for sharing, very fun to watch!
Awesome little boat! And looks like a fun build. Love watching your content and showing my daughters & granddaughters that girls can absolutely build anything, and it's not just a boys thing.
Xyla, thanks for showing your creative problem solving in your videos! It really helped me the other day as I built something in my shop, and I was trying to figure out how to secure the workpiece, I remembered how you cut holes in your saw horses to clamp your rocket body down for the tail fin glue up. I was determined to do the same: drill holes in my work bench to hold down the work. And as luck would have it, I ALREADY HAD holes in my workbench at the correct place and distance apart! Thanks and keep being awesome!
You might be interested in the project from Six Point Wood Works, though he's building it himself - it's a personal trawler yacht, it's quite a big project to do by hand!
@15:12 Quick safety tip! You can lower the blade on the table saw when cutting the foam (or anything) to like... 3mm above the material. Less exposed blade above the material is ideal! Love the video and might do one of these in the future. Thanks!
For sanding large curved areas I've used myself Like those flat mops that you usually velcro the Scrubbing/Absorbent part to, and just put sandpaper there. So you sand something near or far below without hunching over.
So much work invovled in building a small wooden boat. Great job guys. I worked for several years making fibre glass boats and to be honest it is so much easier to simple have a mold for the hull. Gel coated means it is ready painted and ready for the water. Having said that it must be so satifying to build one of those kits.
The timing of this post is awesome, I have been following CLC boats for over 20 years, and next week I go to WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine for a week-long Stitch-and-Glue Boatbuilding class, with John Harris. Xyla, I really like your channel, and you did an amazing job on this boat.
Reminds me of the Mirror Dinghy! Always wanted to build a Mirror (FYI UK newspaper (Daily Mirror) printed plans on how to make a dinghy in something like 1962 to get people outdoors and boating) - may have to make room in the shed!
A handsome little craft. The copper stitching served the same role as Clecos on an aluminum aircraft. Electric scissors are clearly a good idea. I've seen videos on carbon fibre and sheet-metal work where they were highly praised. (Probably a more robust version than the cloth-cutting ones.)
Always going above and beyond for others. Shout out to Nico, Piper and Charis! You know you have friends for life when.... :-) I hope Next Thursday has awesome adventures..
If you need tools for sanding - 3D printing is your good friend. I make rotating sander heads for use with drill (wrap using thin sand strip from a belt), or shaped bases for my block sander etc. Glue on sandpaper and off you go. You can even incorporate dust extraction if you want :). Think custom versions of old style block sander you'd make from wood.
Makes me want to build a boat, or something out of glass and resin. I know on boats like the Laser, they used to put empty plastic jugs under the deck to make them always buoyant. Might be easier than the pink foam. LOL about the feeling of stealing on the sand bags! It felt like that to me when I was out in the pouring rain filling bags to stop my house from flooding too! I love the sailing next to a sea plane!
Hi Xyla, I just finished a boat building class. My boat is 50% finished . We did 12 hour days for 10 days straight. I think 350 hours is quite reasonable. I am building a Scamp and hope to have it in the water next spring. Really enjoyed your video. Thanks Grant
Hint for keeping your resin and hardener warm - your local garden center will have heating mats intended to sit on a bench under seedlings. They'll create a nice, controllable warm. Then build a box out of foam insulation to set over it.
For work, a few months ago, we were required to install fire-rated caulking. It was only provided in the horrible "sausage" packaging, which won't with with a standard call caulk gun, only with a specialty caulk gun designed to be compatible. I saved my company a few hundred dollars on those specialty tools by getting a few cupcake decorating/filling kits at my local Walmart. Cut the end off the sausage caulk, stuff it into the frosting bag with the narrow tip, and ziptie the open end tightly, then "frost" the fire barrier locations. It worked amazingly, and passed all QA inspections.
Awesome video! I wish I still had the space to build another craft. Built the high wall Chesapeake 18 from CLC over a decade ago. Still one of my favorite projects of all time. Keep up the great work Xyla!
Love your videos. Yes, the stuff you build is wonderful, but what really stands out in your work is the combo of wonderful maker and understated but super-strong videography and editing skills. Those four years of engineering school payed off. Oh, and i am a lifetime sailor and must say the way you put that boat together is flat out remarkable. I know boat building and it is never as smooth as that!! Next level maker skills.
For sanding the inside of the boat I think some kind of suspension harness where you can float horizontally above it would help with the sore back. Like a hang glider harness. Would at least make good content.
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wtf No safety equipment in those promo photos. Kids not even wearing safety glasses.
Do you ever think to yourself "In 100 years, there's gonna be some Martian Power Tool Princess making her own all wooden Low-Earth Orbit rocket shuttle just to donate to the Mount Olympus Rocketry for Kids class"?
Another boat, but not a total boat!
Assembling a wooden "lego-like" kit can be fun. Especially at working scale.
Well done!
Absolutely needed some jaws theme music during the sailing.
Patiently waiting for this to become a liveaboard sailing channel once Xyla builds her own yacht...
i can't eat seafood :( i would starve lol
@@xylafoxlinyou don't have to only eat seafood 😂
@@xylafoxlin That makes it harder, but I didn't peg you as one to shy away from a challenge. But whatever you do, make sure you take Nico with you!
@@xylafoxlinSo you'll just need a vegetable garden (tech fueled hydroponics?) and a chicken coop! there are catamaran plans online ;)
@@xylafoxlin If you have a floating greenhouse, does that make all your food sea food? xD
The Center for Wooden Boats are such good people! I learned to sail with them! You can learn to sail. They teach kids. They teach boatbuilding. They preserve and teach history, and bring old techniques into the future! Their new shop is amazing! They work to make sailing and boats accessible to groups it hasn't been accessible to before! They're truly truly excellent and it's awesome that you've worked with them and passed the boat on to them! Might have just inspired me to renew my pass with them and take Next Thursday out for a sail!
If you do enough volunteer hours with the center for wooden boats, you can earn a free family membership. It could be a simple as clearing the spider webs on a cool winter day. The Center for wooden boats always appreciates the help.
Just a note to all boat builders. If you drill or counter sink for screws after the piece has been painted or epoxied you need to treat that wood that's just been exposed with something to water/weather proof it. If you don't that's where the discolorations and delamination of the finish will start. Linseed oil, epoxy, or varnish will all work but you may never get the screw back out with the epoxy or varnish. Boiled linseed oil and similar finishes will need to be applied regularly.
I was going to write the same. If you paint the wood with epoxy or varnish and then drill holes in it later, you need to reseal the exposed wood. And no, silicone caulk won't cut it.
I remember reading a scientific paper a few years ago, where several methods and products for sealing wood were compared. Wood samples were treated, fully immersed into water and the weight gain was recorded. The most effective way to seal wood was molten paraffin wax, three coats of epoxy being the close second best option. Molten paraffin of course has several drawbacks, like remelting of the wax and you can't really paint it, so SEVERAL coats of epoxy is actually the only viable option. Traditional methods like products based on linseed oil, acrylic and even polyurethane paints were much inferior.
The problem with all this is of course, once water enters through cracks and holes the epoxy coating will trap it inside, the water can't really get out anymore. So the wood needs to be sealed perfectly, which is hard especially on larger, complicated structures.
If you want your boat to potentially last a decade or more, all the screws and fasteners better be stainless steel, even when completely embedded in epoxy. For a boat that's out of the water, stored completely dry 95% of the time and isn't expected to last a long time galvanized might work, but considering all the work that goes into such a project just bite the bullet and get the good stuff.
@@kirahund6711 yeah I learned at a young age stainless hardware is pretty much the only way to go with brass a good second place.
@@consaka1 Bronze works too, but that's just inferior to stainless.
@@kirahund6711 yeah bronze/brass is too soft. I've had difficulty with it in the past. I just prefer stainless though I wish even it was stronger.
Great point. Penetrations are where barrier failure or structural deterioration frequently begin and that's not just a "boat" principle. It matters on any substrate where exposure will create change - even just corrosion or oxidation (assuming sound assembly pre penetration and no other existing issues).
Modification of a complete boat would be a key example of where a bunch of small failures all begin to contribute.
I worked on fighter jets in the AF, at the first part where you were twisting wires I was thinking that I was going to send you a pair of safety wire pliers. Until I saw that you were already ontop of it. Absolutely love your videos and look forward to the builds. It really makes this old man really happy to see that pure craftsman/womanship is not going to be lost with the younger generation. Cant wait to see what you build next.
Same, except Navy. I still have a couple of safety wire pliers from AT LEAST the 1970s, which is when I served.
those are the ones that still work better!! waiting for a local A&P to retire and sell theirs haha@@tetedur377
So glad she's doing much better now. Glad seeing her energy back.
Fake, don't believe it
@@khoahatake2017 ?
@@SC-RGX7 She overdosed on hormones and then acted surprised when it caused her problems. Because hoes are stupid like that.
I think this may be the first time I've seen Total Boat actually used on a boat on TH-cam
I was thinking the same thing 😂 and of course Xyla has made canoes, but aside from that..!
This whole process was done wrong!
Sailboats are supposed to be built in basements!!!
Finally... the total boat.
25:34 boatal tote
The Total Total Boat
When I was a kid, my Dad designed and built a bunch of sailboats, mostly for my brother who was a sailing kid. Most were plywood and fibreglass, much like yours, but he did move on to fibreglass and foam composite. The latter were very fast boats, and did help my brother to be overall winner in at least one season of sailing. But my favourite were the wooden boats, they just looked so good in full clear varnish. It was either the second boat or perhaps they renamed the first one after the first season, but it was called "One Slip" partially after the Pink Floyd song, but also because he made the deck out of too thin plywood, and my brother kept slipping and putting his knee through the deck, so it ended up covered in plywood patches.
Anyway, you did a great job with your boat. I'm certain it will inspire many a young sailor to love the sport, let alone learn how to sail. It was fun watching you build it, even if it wasn't always fun building it for you. But most of all, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I loved this video, and all of your videos. I'm an old broke-down and disabled machinist. I'm now unable to make/build things. I get to "make" things vicariously through your vids, well, and the vids of other TH-camrs too. I so much enjoy watching your process. When you launched Next Thursday I seemed to get a bunch of dust in my eyes, or perhaps an allergy attack. It wasn't until the video was over till I managed to clear my eyes.
Thanks Xyla, for bringing this old man joy. I'm looking forward to the next mischief you get yourself into.
John
Shucks, I might have posted this. Great comment 👍
(Damn, just got something in my eyes 😢)
The screws going into the skeg from the inside will penetrate the epoxy barrier and be a source of rot as water gets in there. The Gougon recommendation is to drill an enlarged hole, fill with epoxy and then re-drill for screws once hardened. Gougeon brothers wrote the seminal work for wood and epoxy boat construction. (this goes for all the other screws as well of course)
There are epoxies with UV blockers in the formula to protect against UV degradation of the epoxy. UV from the sun eats epoxy. Even here at 63 degrees North this is an issue, and I re-glassed my CLC Chesapeake 18 three years ago because I messed this up and the glass started to turn yellow before delaminating 🙂
I have never seen a CLC kit go together before. It was really interesting. Those pre-cut joints sure made things easier as there were no need for scarfing, but I wonder how they do when the plywood is stressed a lot as in some of their kayak kits. Perhaps they add a layer of glass on each side when gluing?
Anything that has exposed epoxy should be sanded and given a coat of poly. The poly will take a beating, but, much simpler to just repoly it now and then than to sand to virgin epoxy and then build it back up. Plus it looks nice.
The patience necessary to build half the stuff you make just amazes me. I would always be looking for shortcuts to the point where I'd drive myself and everyone around me crazy..
Shes like a mini Amazon, as in Swallows and Amazons: White lug sail, centre board, and ever so neat. 😊 Xyla, you're an inspiration to us all and I'm glad to be able to share your videos with my daughters, to show them how unstoppable a girl can be. Thank you!!
Being a retired QE processes have been a big portion of my life. I have watched dozens of CLC project builds. This one is certainly the best. How you bring your education and training into your projects is so gratifying. This makes watching your builds so much fun. Your quirky, off-the-shelf humor adds a lot, too. Thanks for sharing your passion.
"Are you... prow'd of it?" Xyla gave a very stern look at that joke.
Very good. Take a bow.
You know, I think it's legal to keel-haul people FORE making bad puns. The great things is, AFTer that, no more bad puns.
@@tetedur377Gotta leave the boat in the brine at least a year before keel-hauling otherwise it's not effective.....
She knew she was going to have to spend weeks building a boat with these jokes.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721she absolutely did bahahaha
Is this a "Total Boat" project?? Pun intended - LOL!! Many years ago in the 60's when I was in high school I worked for my whole high school career at a marina on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, Best job I ever had!! I even built and restored a wrecked racing hydroplane for my own racing use!! One of my jobs was repairing wooden water craft such as Chris Crafts etc for our dock renters. Remove caulking from the planking, replace it then fill the boat with water to swell the planking so it wouldn't sink when you put it in the river! No epoxy back in those days!! Just marine Spar varnish. I even got the chance to help restore a US WWII plywood PT boat and rebuild it's engines. It got converted into personal cabin cruiser. Fun job and many great memories!! Nice work guys! Xyla, ya got a great heart girl.
Why is anti-fouling not good if you're going to have the boat out of the water? Is it less resistant to scrapes than the paint you ended up with? (Also, I felt so sorry for you guys having to strip it all off and repaint it!)
If it's a biocide antifouling, I suspect that they don't want kids to touch it. Also, you cant paint over it with normal paint only antifouling, so they would have to remove it if they want the maintenance to be an educational activity. finally, some regions don't allow it to protect the wildlife. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with having antifouling as a top coat for the underwater part.
@@grieske thanks!
Also to add antifouling is generally a softer finish so you are correct in guessing that its less resistant to scuffs and scrapes which of course isnt ideal when its being pulled from the water often.
@@grieskewow. Thanks. Great answer.
anti-fouling paint is great for metal boats, not so great for wooden. That boat will never see salt water so not necessary for anti-fouling paint.
I'm with you on that, Xyla. Glassing is just as satisfying as pouring epoxy.
Also, love the choice of scoring the video with Biddy Sullivan. One of my favorites.
Love that. I was a member of the Center for wooden boats for many years when I lived in Seattle. They are such an awesome organization. So glad you built them a boat.
This brought tears to my eyes, I built a wooden racing dingy with my Dad when I was 17, some of the best memories of my life just came flooding back. Thank you.
She is beautiful. You should all be proud, WELL DONE! ❤
Loved the champagne at the end 🥂
This was my favorite build of all of your builds Xyla. I love sailboats and sailing. Next you should combine your boat building skills and the new tiny home trend and design and build a live aboard yacht.
I just can't believe how much work something like this is! Not only the ship itself but the filming and editing as well. Well done.
Leo from Sampson Boat Co would likely approve. Jokes aside, this is really cool to see how you can build a boat from a kit like this.
Been following Leo, longer than I've
been enjoying Xyla's work.
steve
Not a boat from a kit, a toy.
Maya and mainly Aladino from "Sailing Magic Carpet" also assembled/build such a Chesapeake boat for using it as a multi purpose dinghy.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.
Probably not, she epoxied the boat together without wetting out the wood first. Leo, on occasion has explained how important it is to wet out wood before epoxy or resin joining.
I love your videos. Your enthusiasm comes through the screen. I especially like it when you go through problem solving issues that come up during each project.
This gave me such sweet nostalgia. I volunteered for the Center for Wooden Boats, years ago. I learned to sail on a little boat very much like what you just built. So very cool! Thanks for sharing, on so many levels.
"I am way to Asian to know what gravy looks like" had me laughing out loud.
Seattle needs lots off helpers. Thank you!
A friend of mine attended the Center for wooden Boats several years ago.
Watching this it makes me remember my Grandfather who had built his own sailboat (in the middle of the Canadian prairies) and sailed it from Victoria to Hawaii and back. Thank you for this!
wonder if total boat would do a limited run of your purple in botal toat labelled cans? but as always your out there inspiring youngsters to just go for it
That was impressively awesome, holy cow! That project never ended, but when it did .......wow! Beautiful job and thanks for people like you to donate so much for a great program!
Once again Xyla proves how much of a badass she is! Nice Job!
I love that you built this for such a worthy cause. Being of service where we can, especially to those less fortunate than us, is the way.
How long do you guys think it will be before Xyla builds her own plane?
de Havilland Mosquito, a WOODEN world war 2 plane. original plans likely available online. on completion, sell it for about $5 million, even if it were painted purple.
She should get her hands on a Sonex, or an rv-12 kit! Aside from being enjoyable to watch, it would be a huge inspiration to a new generation of pilots!
next friday ;)
One colab with Peter Stipol away
Give her a year and a half.
Glad that you did this video using a kit. It really simplifies the build process and provides what levels of skill are required to build this fine vessel. Super job and the outcome is beautiful!
Shouldn't all the drilled holes also be sealed to stop moisture from entering the wood?
yup, negated all the work of the sealing of the wood, in fact with unsealed screw holes like that it's actually worse because she sealed the rest of the wood since moisture that goes in the screw holes will not be able to escape the wood and be trapped causing accelerated rotting vs if the wood around the holes was able to dry. Those screw holes will be the points it rots from.
Watching Xyla take a sip of the champagne with the bright water in the back and the beautiful finished boat beside her is like the visual representation of confident triumph, and I love it.
Dang, not sure I could tackle one of those pro-level kits, but you've definitely got me thinking about ordering a simpler one as a summer project with kids in a few years, looks like so much fun!
That is the best video I've seen in a while. 35 minutes went by so fast!!!! Congratulations to a beautiful boat, and the crew were absolutely wonderful and really into it; and no blood!!!!
You’re freekin awesome!!! Thanks for doing all the think I dream about doing!
Good use of aircraft safety wire twisty tool.
Super fun video and a fantastic little boat! Love the purple accents!
The shots of the clamps vanishing frame-by-frame were a good touch, very extra, and are appreciated!
So cool!! Now I can show my friends why I was getting excited about a boat (THIS BOAT) when we were out for a walk!! ⛵️ Love thissssss!! Also, Foxlin Fiberglassing School, or FFS…I like it. 😹
Xyla,
Your videos make me smile 😋.
Keep the aspidistra flying!
God bless,
Paul
I loved this. Had laughs and warm fuzzies all the way through the video. Next Thursday is an awesome looking craft. You guys should be incredibly proud of her ❤🎉
P. S. I love the purple accents
I totally agree that fiberglassing is super satisfying to watch! Especially with a nice wood texture coming through? So pretty!
I wasn't expecting a Lyla Foxlin - Cleetus McFarland crossover! (music at 22:30) 😂
Was about comment rockin‘ Cleetus vibes for the montage!
When does the jet boat engine get installed?
As always, awesome job! And as a Seattleite who spends tons of time on Lake Union, thanks so much for building a boat for the Center for Wooden Boats. Love their education programs and their great collection of boats that has just gained a gorgeous one.
woah, this just came out! Cant wait to watch the video, your content is amazing and you're so inspiring! Keep up the good work!
Started sailing in wooden boats when I was young, Fortunately I had metal spars where allowed as I spent a lot of time racing. I have had a lot of wooden boats and the care they need is a royal pain when a repaint is needed! SO cool to see the build process laid out like that, several of the boats I have owned were designed to be home built in a similar way.
I wonder if it’d be a nightmare to use some kind of expanding foam (like they use to seal and insulate homes) in those flotation cells instead of the cut foam sheet? It might fill the space more fully and not allow any water in.
That's definitely an acceptable technique. It can be tough if you don't have experience with it because over-filling can deform (or burst) the hull. Either option has down sides.
I wanted to! CWB specifically requested I use the pink stuff in case the boat gets borked and they have to pull the foam out and replace it.
@@xylafoxlin that’s a great reason! Maybe an idea for them: use plastic bags to contain the foam? I’ve had a few things sent to me recently that had foam that was contained in bags as it expanded - conformed to the box and contents, and was easily removed. Maybe if you had another Thursday. 😜 Thanks for these videos. I’ve been wanting to work with fiberglass for a while, and I’ve watched and rewatched your videos.
@@toastrecon Your probably thinking of something like the Instapak products? A ready to use bag that you activate, then drop in the shipping box with whatever your packing? The foam inside it expands to shape around your item then sets. You end up with really nice packing foam moulded around your item. th-cam.com/video/PnKBIGv0CqU/w-d-xo.html
@@coffeegonewrong Those must be it! That's pretty cool, I didn't know that it was so "accessible".
Thank you Xyla for the amazing boat!! We have loved using it in our youth programs and it is such a fun boat to teach teens on
We'd love to have you back at CWB when you're in Seattle next! I loveeeeee the custom purple!
What I'm learning is that the Titanic probably sunk because they didn't use enough epoxy.
Your best video yet! Yes, it’s as long as a regular TV program but the quality of content was well worth sitting down to watch.
Well done to all concerned and especially Xyla.
Botal Sail Toat
"Next Thursday." Perfect! Beautiful boat, but would have gone with a lighter shade of purple...like boysenberry! Thanks so much for sharing, very fun to watch!
Awesome little boat! And looks like a fun build. Love watching your content and showing my daughters & granddaughters that girls can absolutely build anything, and it's not just a boys thing.
Xyla, thanks for showing your creative problem solving in your videos! It really helped me the other day as I built something in my shop, and I was trying to figure out how to secure the workpiece, I remembered how you cut holes in your saw horses to clamp your rocket body down for the tail fin glue up. I was determined to do the same: drill holes in my work bench to hold down the work. And as luck would have it, I ALREADY HAD holes in my workbench at the correct place and distance apart! Thanks and keep being awesome!
Building boats with friends should definitely be a new YT genre! It looks approachable and super fun.
You might be interested in the project from Six Point Wood Works, though he's building it himself - it's a personal trawler yacht, it's quite a big project to do by hand!
@15:12 Quick safety tip! You can lower the blade on the table saw when cutting the foam (or anything) to like... 3mm above the material. Less exposed blade above the material is ideal! Love the video and might do one of these in the future. Thanks!
For sanding large curved areas I've used myself Like those flat mops that you usually velcro the Scrubbing/Absorbent part to, and just put sandpaper there. So you sand something near or far below without hunching over.
US Sailing instructor here. LOVE that build and that it went to a great group.
At the end, while sailing...
The DHC 3 encounter is nice.
Is it a teaser for your next project ?
That was one hell of a build to end up giving away.
What a beautiful project. That will be a gift for many years to those kids! Thanks for showing us. That kit was very nicely designed.
So much work invovled in building a small wooden boat. Great job guys. I worked for several years making fibre glass boats and to be honest it is so much easier to simple have a mold for the hull. Gel coated means it is ready painted and ready for the water. Having said that it must be so satifying to build one of those kits.
The timing of this post is awesome, I have been following CLC boats for over 20 years, and next week I go to WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine for a week-long Stitch-and-Glue Boatbuilding class, with John Harris. Xyla, I really like your channel, and you did an amazing job on this boat.
Great build, clearly shows all the makers in this build are full of positive energy. One of your best videos yet! Really enjoyed watching it.
What a gorgeous little purple Sailboat! Lovely job Xyla and team!
Reminds me of the Mirror Dinghy! Always wanted to build a Mirror (FYI UK newspaper (Daily Mirror) printed plans on how to make a dinghy in something like 1962 to get people outdoors and boating) - may have to make room in the shed!
"Next Thursday" will bring the joy of sailing to many people for many years to come. With some TLC, that boat will last a generation or two.
A handsome little craft.
The copper stitching served the same role as Clecos on an aluminum aircraft.
Electric scissors are clearly a good idea. I've seen videos on carbon fibre and sheet-metal work where they were highly praised. (Probably a more robust version than the cloth-cutting ones.)
When are you going to start the ~45ft aluminum sailboat?
Best wishes all.
I've wanted to get a Chesapeake Light Craft kayak kit for ages. You did a nice job, and now I know a bit more of what to expect.
Always going above and beyond for others. Shout out to Nico, Piper and Charis! You know you have friends for life when.... :-)
I hope Next Thursday has awesome adventures..
If you need tools for sanding - 3D printing is your good friend. I make rotating sander heads for use with drill (wrap using thin sand strip from a belt), or shaped bases for my block sander etc. Glue on sandpaper and off you go. You can even incorporate dust extraction if you want :). Think custom versions of old style block sander you'd make from wood.
I am always amazed at your level of quality you deliver. Plus, no matter what you work on, I learn new things.
You are the best.
Wow! What an epic project! So much tedious work. Assembling the wood into a boat shaped structure is the easy bit!
No you are totally right. I love watching the glass start to show the wood, it is like magic.
All the clamps are back! Im so happy!
Makes me want to build a boat, or something out of glass and resin. I know on boats like the Laser, they used to put empty plastic jugs under the deck to make them always buoyant. Might be easier than the pink foam. LOL about the feeling of stealing on the sand bags! It felt like that to me when I was out in the pouring rain filling bags to stop my house from flooding too! I love the sailing next to a sea plane!
freaking awesome build, loved the joy in your face while sailing.
Mahalo for documenting the sheer craftspersonship of this project. It was mesmerising!
Hi Xyla, I just finished a boat building class. My boat is 50% finished . We did 12 hour days for 10 days straight. I think 350 hours is quite reasonable. I am building a Scamp and hope to have it in the water next spring. Really enjoyed your video. Thanks Grant
Belated welcome to Seattle! Glad the weather was nice for your trip!
the center for wooden boats is awesome! thank you for supporting the seattle community :) :)
Can't wait to see you start to build your airplane! Nice boat!
If you're in need of a chuckle, at 25:37 you said "boatal totes" and the YT Closed Caption algo called it "bottle toads". Keep up the good work
Hint for keeping your resin and hardener warm - your local garden center will have heating mats intended to sit on a bench under seedlings. They'll create a nice, controllable warm. Then build a box out of foam insulation to set over it.
Self bailing fixtures are a good idea for that lower well area. When you decide to make your own small wooden boat.
For work, a few months ago, we were required to install fire-rated caulking. It was only provided in the horrible "sausage" packaging, which won't with with a standard call caulk gun, only with a specialty caulk gun designed to be compatible. I saved my company a few hundred dollars on those specialty tools by getting a few cupcake decorating/filling kits at my local Walmart. Cut the end off the sausage caulk, stuff it into the frosting bag with the narrow tip, and ziptie the open end tightly, then "frost" the fire barrier locations. It worked amazingly, and passed all QA inspections.
Watching this from my office overlooking the center for wooden boats here in Seattle. That's awesome.
You are so much fun to watch and listen to!
Watching Xyla build a sailboat. Suddenly hear Cleetus build theme. Half expect to see a massive LS outboard bolted to the transom...
Awesome video! I wish I still had the space to build another craft. Built the high wall Chesapeake 18 from CLC over a decade ago. Still one of my favorite projects of all time. Keep up the great work Xyla!
Love your videos. Yes, the stuff you build is wonderful, but what really stands out in your work is the combo of wonderful maker and understated but super-strong videography and editing skills. Those four years of engineering school payed off. Oh, and i am a lifetime sailor and must say the way you put that boat together is flat out remarkable. I know boat building and it is never as smooth as that!! Next level maker skills.
Nicely done!
It’s refreshing to see quality work being done with attention to detail.
What a little beauty of a boat - the purple is a surprisingly nice touch. All for a great cause, too!
Love the name. Our first production sailboat was christened "Good enough".
For sanding the inside of the boat I think some kind of suspension harness where you can float horizontally above it would help with the sore back. Like a hang glider harness. Would at least make good content.
Drop down like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible.