All sorts of bits and pieces have been going on in the boatshed this week. The bedding is started, the mast step hole has a block, the bulwarks are painted, new and serious shelves are fitted... it just goes on! And did I mention varnish??


This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the build as it progresses and aim to show as much detail as possible of the various aspects of the build.

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and

on the day

she was kissed by the sun

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has begun

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she was kissed by the sun

no one can stop him

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espit badger i'm tony and this is the

uh the video log of the build of this

boat

which is a jay benford designed 31 foot

eight sailing dory will be junk screwing

rigged in due course

and i'm building a part-time in my spare

time

we are as it stands some three years ten

and a half months into the build

and uh i say part-time build

and when you consider also you know

video logging it

and putting these up on youtube it takes

a fair bit of time

in fact as i strive to get better at

video editing

video production the time that goes into

making these videos is

steadily growing but um you know i say

three years ten months

um i've no doubt that if you were to

build one of these full-time

and not take the time to video it you

could get one done in a couple of years

i'm sure

as a as an amateur builder um but here

we are

this week started off getting some paint

around the bulwarks

last week you remember i varnished the

board caps the afore caps

and i just brought the paint the gloss

paint up to those now just to tidy it up

before and aft um so that's all done

i've got a couple of coats of white

paint around there and later on i will

be sanding all this and the blue

and putting another two coats on before

we launch

yeah but i'll do that towards the end

yeah looking good i think

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i said

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yeah here we are inside the boat and

quite a few things going on in here i

shall

grab the camera and talk you through

them i think

so i've got this underlay stuff it looks

like

this if you can see this

the camera it's not very happy focusing

on it but

um it's an underlay for the cushions in

various places under beds

that allow a bit of air circulation

under the cushions

and uh has good reports on keeping mould

down from the bottom of cushions

so i've got some of that cut it to shape

for the four

peak and also if i spin gently around

also cut it in for the quarter berth and

you'll notice

also i've cut a mattress in for the

quarterback

that's the piece of underlay laid in

there

and the mattress is in and it's very

comfy has to be said

very nice place to sleep a great

seaberth

um the mattress obviously will be

upholstered yet

it's just a rough cover on at the moment

but yeah that's the first bit of foam

cut into shape

and i've got the phone for for these

cities

i need to put fiddles around the cities

but i've got the phone over there

and we'll be buying some new

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mattresses for the v-berth

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so

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so

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so

the other great excitement here is that

cabin sole is finally complete i've got

those two

boards behind me finished i used a

different varnish in the end

some from my usual supplier binker and

it's very good varnish

also comes can't see any color

difference or gloss difference

dries better actually much better

varnish to be honest with you

should have used it from the start there

you go

that's done console is finished

you'll notice the mast step

is a hole and of course when the masts

aren't in place

that hole will be there so i've made up

a wooden block with smoke on the top of

it

that will just sit in there for times

when

for example we intend to do some french

canal work

times when the masts aren't in position

and you can just fill that hole with a

bit of

oak capped wood that will sort of blend

in there and

stop you falling down the hole at the

earliest

happy

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so

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so

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so

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so

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yeah you know the build's going on but

of course there's always other things to

do around the workshop

maintenance items repairs keeping tools

sharp

um or clean and clean the epoxy off the

clamps all sorts of things keeps you

busy

as well as the actual build itself and

one thing that's been going on this week

is i've got i've got some racks over the

wall there i'll just show you those

my wood racks here and it's all balanced

fairly precariously on some

rather weak wooden brackets that i made

up years ago

and one day i'm going to come into the

workshop

and find that lot all crashed down and

laid on the floor i'm sure

so improvements needed and i'm

in the process of welding up well i've

welded up completely now three of these

angle iron brackets will go on the wall

there

to do the job a bit more substantially i

should give them a lick of paint now and

drill some holes not in that order drill

some holes then paint

and get them up there

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another little job that needed doing was

to i had some

holes from screws or just holes in the

wood

in this nav table area

we're coupling that in there um

also two in the companionway step and i

cut some plugs

got them in i've planned them off

and getting some varnish on them now

they look nice

i'm talking about the companionway step

let me show you that it's in process of

being varnished

fiddles completely varnished top step is

completely vanished

bottom oak one has got uh four coats on

it now so getting that way

looking very nice pleased with it and if

i step back

you get the view the glossy boards going

up to the

companionway looking very nice

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here we are in the workshop all sorts of

bits

yeah dry all sorts of bits stacked on

the rudder

one thing i did earlier this week was i

got the rudder all finished

glassing all the edges of the rudder and

these two surfaces of the upper portion

of the rudder

all glass and now she's completely

glassed in with the exception of the

of the top and bottom of the blade

itself and

there's a good reason for that end

plates coming on there in due course

in the next rudder job and as you see

balanced on it now various bits of board

being varnished

the middle companionway step the bottom

companionway step

and over here is my little block

to fill in the mast hole

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hmm

so

that's it for this week thank you for

watching

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and we'll be back next time see you then

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bye

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