TRANSOME TROUBLES! Episode 8. Working on my ferro Smack and GP14
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- ** EPISODE 8 **
In this Episode i continue the task of removing the rotten transome assembly, firsty removing the stubborn knees and bolts, then moving onto the the rotten fashion piece. the battle against Sikaflex begins.
i also get the repairs completed on my little Gp14 sailing dingy, ready to rig up and get out for some fun on the water.
My apologies for the delay in uploading this video, Managing to work full time, work on my own boat project at the weekends and some evenings, filming and editing these video's, set up the workshop so i can work inside and also have a life, is proving to be quite a challenge, to add to that, to have computer problems really doesn't help with keeping on track with the video schedule! Hopefully all is resolved from now and the work and videos can start flowing freely!
I want to thank each and every one of you who have shown some much support to my journey so far, especially in this strange situation we have all found ourselves in around the world.
Your continued support is truly incredible and i am incredibly grateful.
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Nice to see a boat project that got completed....love the dinghy! Best of luck with the rest...I will be watching!
Cracking work Finn. Time passes; you'll get there.
I love the design of the sailing dinghy. She's a beauty. At least you were able to fix her up. Nice job of patching the hole.
Sometimes circumstances allow us to work on those things that we've been putting off.
Lockdown...that was fun wasn't it. We had about 6 months of lockdown over 2020 so I renovated my kitchen.
I am a huge fan of your project, I think your videos and music choices are well done and very entertaining. Keep up the good work!
Enjoyed thanks for posting.!
Great job on the GP14. I’ve restored a few gp14’s and other dinghies myself. Painting using roll and tip technique gives you really nice finish. Good Luck woth your project ;)
Great work and determination.
Hi Finn, great video. Again. Keep going..
Greats from East Germany ✌️
Finn, I have just recently found your channel and am spending hours trying to catch up to the present status and have a long way to go as yet. I have watched videos of other DIY boat builders and restorers. If I had the money and were younger and wanted to build a boat, you would be the first person I would talk to about building me a boat because of your attention to detail and the way that you describe what you are doing and why. I am loving your videos and have just finished number 8, so have quite a ways to go. Thank you for being a craftsman and displaying your craftsmanship. If I were younger with the money, your email box would be loaded with requests to build me a quality boat that I knew I could sail around the world in without having any construction mishaps. Take care and stay well.
Great videos Finn!! I really enjoy them!!😁
My very best restoration was a Bell Woodworking GP. I loved it. I sold it to a neighbour who let it go...
LOve it! You are a little bit Leo and a little bit Louis! ;-)
Well done.
Great music...😄👍🏻
Loved the finishing time lapse on the dinghy!
Nice job on the dingy! I am catching up with the current videos.
hi nice work . very well dun
Great work Finn, I enjoy your project & videos. Watched you first with Tally Ho. & now I'm here as well. I sent you drill bits from your Amazon Wish List.... Enjoy!
I wish I had 20% of your energy Finn. Inspirational as always. I guess no out-takes this time because there weren't any😁
What a well done video, Finny. Lots of content and loads of work shown a fast motion. Great job !!
Finny 😬🤣
Great to see that classic old GP coming back to life!
Hi Finn! Good to see you boat is lookin good. The dinghy is cool! Have a great time with family and friends!
Looks good, must post some water pics when you get there
Nice one Finn! Looking forward to seeing that dingy in the water!
Same!
Hi Finn, Perhaps cut most of the Transom out in the centre with a skill saw just leaving the glued bits around the edges. That way you can get your tools in and behind to cut away the Sika. ???????
Enjoyed the video, thanks
I have been following Leo on Tally Ho and then found you here
Just watched this and it has taken me back to my childhood when I was about 9/10 as my uncle built a GP14 in his garage and also another small wooden dinghy. I remember him steaming strips of timber in an old cast iron drain pipe. We all use to go on camping holidays aunt's uncle's cousin's and the two boats. I remember having a race from Warerham to Brownsea Island and back using outboard's and oars . What great memories as I am now 65 .
It seems a well made pipe wrench will last just about forever
Great video Finn! Keep up the hard work.
It's pleasing to see how methodical you are, Finn.
great video, i would like to see one every couple of week,not once amonth please
Fantastic!!
Bloody amazing mate, that vid and work of course was outstanding. Cool boat !
Nice work, Finn! The GP14 looks great. Will it fit on the deck of your Smack one day do you think?
I always watch right up to the end but especially for the bloopers at the end. Missed them this time, you must be getting better : )
Apologies, just didn’t have enough decent clips to make it worthwhile, next time ;)
Great job mate!
Great work Finn 👍 love what your doing!!
Nice job on the dingy, Finn. Looking forward to seeing it rigged and in the water. Thanks for sharing your project with me!
Nice to see you back online, dude. Thanks for the vid.
Keep it up Finn. Good stuff.
looking good Finn. Can't wait to see you tooling around in that dinghy to keep the spirits up.
Good job on the dinghy. Looking good!
That dinghy looks good!
Good effort finn, looking forward to seeing more of your vids.
Great vid Finn , i look forward to your posts ! cheers
Great work Finn.
Its absolutely awesome sailing dinghy Finn! Great work, keep on going!
Hi, Finn! The dinghy looks fresh and beautiful! Looking forward to seeing you sailing her :) Greetings from Moscow!
The dingy has really lovely lines, the work you did made her look great, looking forward to seeing it in water.
Good video! I love the terse narrations to keep me on course interspersed with peppy time lapses backed with awesome music. You’ve got the stuff.
When you varnish with a "lint" free roller, use a 3 wide foam brush after rolling the varnish on to gently wipe away all roller marks and bubble flecks, make sure you stroke the foam brush gently in one direction only, fore and aft. It gives a lovely smooth finish, if you rub down between coats just do this on the last couple of coats. Your GP looked lovely, nice work, great to see old boats getting new life breathed into them. I sailed a GP14 in 1968, fun boat and safe. Success 👍
Super. Thanks!
I remember seeing that type of sailing dinghy in Paignton harbor, the sailing club had a little fleet of them
Finn, pleased to see you back!
Keep posting mate, please!
Nice work.
Nice!
Nice going mate
Good to see you making progress. That is one sexy dingy! Beautiful lines! Stay safe and I hope the county gets geared back up for all those projects that have been put on hold, mine included. Thanks for posting.
Nice video again. Great job on the dingy. The woodies are the best. Stay healthy!
Beautiful job on the dingy Finn. Hope you show it in action on the water.
Thanks for posting and sharing. Nice music 🎶 to go with the action of your videos. I hope your visit goes well.
Nice work on the GP14. I've a couple of mirror dinghys that need the same treatment.....
Greetings from the land of Tally Ho ! Love the progress you've made. Looking forward to all these lock downs coming to an end so I can see the Tally Ho "UK" crew reunion....... I'm sure Thom has a few more A2A stamps to mark on your barn before you get too much farther, LOL ! Looking forward to next time. Cheers !
Absolutely brilliant that you eased your mood and took a break with the GP 14 - the big boat is longer project and of course needs a more long term outlook- you’ve got youth, skills and determination on your side 👌👨🏻
Thing`s are moving along your doing a great job Finn. keep it going and in no time the boat will be were you want her
Watxhung you restore your GP14 reminded me of restoring and selling my Enterprise last year.
Jack Holt who designed and built both along with the Mirror dinghy was an amazing guy.
That GP 14 looked bloody beautiful when you finished it. Hope it sails well
Your dinghy is looking amazing now.
Aye m8, looks as a great achievement.
Finn, you're making good headway considering imposed restrictions. Like your mate Leo, always enjoy your music selections.
Thanks Finn learned to sail in a topper then a GP14 remember thinking it was so fast. Good to see you breathe life to another old boat👍🏻👏 Sure you will get that transom piece off somehow you could always burn it as the rest of the boat is cement 😂 only joking before someone tells how this would be a bad idea🙄 looking forward to your next video 👍🏻⛵🏴
Wow! 901up thumbs to zero down. I've never seen that before.
You must be doing something right mate. Well done. You're killing it!
That is one tough boat if those stern knees are anything to go by.,!Thanks for sharing your dream ,I wish I had youth on my side ,I think I would do a month work for free to help you .
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This one was real good Finn, I'm keen to see you sailing the gp14 soon
Me tooo!! Thank you 🙏
Dear Finn.
👍👌👏 Well done again. The little boat looks alright fantastic. Congrats! Unfortunately the music is still way too loud and does not often fit to the pictures and the previous music piece. Therefore it's quite annoying at least half of the time.
Nevertheless and as always: Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health.
Went from Mirror's and Cadets to a Fireball and a Dutchman, those inbetweenie's like the Enterprise and the GP14 were killer's to pull up a ramp after a long sail. Nice work though Finn.
its very good idea to have a smal boat to come out on the water... otherwise you forget the reasen why you started the mammut project ... good progress
Brilliant vid yet again buddy keep em coming abit gutted there was no bonus blooper footage at the end lmao
Makes me wanna work on boats :D
I took a deep breath when you cut out the patch. Toe straps and stringers being potential cut, but all was good.
Sampson boat co sent me here
Finn - 940 views and no dislikes , you have found the right formula. Cheers from Thailand..
GP14 is a good dinghy, faster than you'd think. I sailed one a bit as a lad. I remember it used to have a very competitive circuit, but I guess that's all gone now.
The GP 14 looks amazing Finn, well done, it's nice to get something else finished when struggling with a stubborn job like the transom. They did a good job of sticking it on, but shame they used such crap timber!
The only way I can think of getting it out is to run the circular saw along its length several time and then chip it out with a chisel or adze....what a pain!
Right, what @Dave Williams said, and also some vertical cuts in hope of some voids in the adhesive/cement, chunks could be pried out.
Cracking job on the GP14, seen plenty of them sailing but never sailed one. They have a reputation of being incredibly heavy especially at the end of the day so seeing you lift it with a fork lift made me smile. If all else fails you can do a bit of coastal cruising in it. Keep up the good work.
They hold there reputation well! Not the lightest of dingy’s but should be good fun!
@@knotfinnishedyet9170 gauenteed
The music in the beginning reminds me of Zappa's Hot Rats.
OK - new subscriber...ya got my attention when you fitted that patch to the dingy hull. Tell us what paints and varnishes you are using as you go, please
About time been ages lol.
Hiya Finn
What a shame the transom rotted like that. makes for a very tricky job for you. Where's Leo when you need him? LOL.
It will be interesting to see how you get on with the ferro. It's a construction system that's so out of favour now.
Nice job on the dinghy! Will look so good out on the water.
Good luck now the lockdown has generally ended.
good to see you back hard at it - think the answer might be a small shaped charge and blow that bugger oft - ye ha - keep going chap
🤔🤔🤣
This ferrocement boat has never been on the water, AND the transom is stuck tightly to the underlying cement without gaps that might have allowed rain to infiltrate back of the wood. So why then did it rot?
I'm wondering if the cause might be dampness seeping outward from cement that wasn't dry enough when the wood was applied. It might be worth surveying some other areas where wood was applied directly over cement on the lookout for similar problems.
You are doing impressive work. Props.
Well now Leo would just stick an a empty pallet on the fork lift as a work platform, then start having a go at the fashion piece with the nose of the trusty chainsaw.....
Fantastic episode! I really enjoyed watching you fix up the dingy. Really good job. She looks beautiful. Does she have a name? Maybe I missed it.
The dingy is called Orion 👍 you didn’t miss it, I just left it out 🙈
KnotFINNishedYet Excellent.
so nice to have you back!
that dingy looks really sharp now, great job. I have a question though, did you polish the primer at 12:05? may I ask what's the reason? I always thought the primer coat needs to be rough so the paint sticks to it better.
Hi Konstantin, I used a high build primer ( all I could get ) so there you saw me just flattening it back and removing scratches before another coat.
What are those beautiful looking handles/railings on the dinghy at the stern just above the transom all about? They seem really interesting and unusual. There are so many great old sailing dinghies in the UK that we don't see here in the USA - I love it!
It’s where he track for the main sheet is mounted
@@knotfinnishedyet9170 Thanks! That's a really nice detail. I look forward to seeing that when it's all reassembled. Nice work.
At 10:07 the jam is cool. Who is the artist?
If anyone can complete and sail the boat, its Finn!
I do not understand why you want to take out this piece of wood astern. It seems very strong.
Goooood music👍
Not sure if you missed but there is severe rot covering almost 1/3 of the timber, and sapwood in the clean area, not what I want in the boat.
Dude, where'd you get that fabulous music from? Would be great if you listed site/artist/track for each tune in your episode description.
BTW-- great to see you back! Been weeks... You do impressive work. Look forward to more!
Crusty Curmudgeon - You can download Apps which will identify music/songs e.g. *Shazam - Musixmatch - SoundHound*