Tapatya has finally parted ways with the final section of the strongback and is now floating happily in the air (well, on some wood blocks!). The very fisrt piece of the keel timber is cut to shape and fitted!

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.

These videos take a lot of time and effort to make, in what is already a time-intensive project. Your support in watching, subscribing and sharing these videos is very much appreciated. You make a real difference!!

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Music tracks "Sit and Wonder", "Ocean View" and "The Great Divide" available on iTunes, Amazon etc. EP "Shake a Leg", album "Out of the Moloch", single "Ocean View".

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Thank you :-)

Tony

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hi i'm tony this is sv te patya and this

is the video log of the build of this

cruising sailboat that you see behind me

um

there's a bit of road works going out on

out the front so uh apologies if you

hear noise from them

let's say the video log the video record

of the build with this boat which is you

know the whole intention is to just

record

the way that i go about building this

boat

and uh the various you know little steps

involved

and this week's been a big step because

uh

i spent the best part of two days

jacking her up and putting some blocks

underneath i know that sounds incredible

but it really was the best part of the

two days checking her up putting getting

the blocks underneath there making sure

she was set level four and a half and

the thought ships

and uh getting them ready so that we

could start

work on the on the keel

construction the keel itself is made up

of two elements

being uh the the wood section the dead

wood basically speaking and then the

ballast keel which is a lead block

basically speaking bolted onto the

bottom

so uh got her up high enough to make a

start on that wood deadwood section and

indeed did that got the very first

small piece on but one or two other

little bits going on roundabout let's

have a look

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all these end pieces for horizontal

rails are going on there 22 millimeter

pipe beautiful

but for some reason they've got a

quarter inch

hole through

i need to take about eight

so truly

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so the stainless tubes have arrived for

the uh horizontal or sloping a bit

actually

uh rails that connect the half bimini

post up to the stanchion

um in the corner there

gotta cut them a bit to length or a tag

over long but uh looking good

we've got these ends

with the holes through them

that fit into the worlded on brackets on

the various posts

and i say only just arrived so i've been

waiting for them for quite a while

ready to start cutting them and get them

on next week you'll see them in place

and then i can as i said last week i can

throw a tarp over and um

and tie it down to these give me

something to fix it up to which will

protect the cockpit keep the leaves out

pleased about that

so

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so i made a bit more progress with the

rudder

both of these upper end plates are now

in position shaped up

um i was rather hoping

to get them glass but

it became clear that i had a bit of a

supply chain issue

when i got my glass cloth out there was

nowhere near enough of it so

i've had to put in an order for glass

cloth which actually has just arrived

and i've also

ordered um the low temperature hardener

for the epoxy because temperatures are

dropping rapidly at the moment

um so that will be done

soon

certainly i've now got the materials

that's the way it is isn't it

to keep

stock

but sometimes it's hard to keep track of

stock

get a bit busy in these things

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so

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theory

all right

yep

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if you like these videos and what we do

here and feel you'd like to show your

appreciation for the time and effort

that goes into it and

you know the filmmaking the video making

time and effort is not insignificant

there are a couple of ways you can do

that and one way is is via patreon

at the end of the video there's a link

or in the video description to the

patreon page and there you'll find

a few videos that you won't find on the

youtube channel

and also three tiers of support there's

a one

dollar a month tier a three dollar a

month tier and a ten dollar a month tier

um and i say dollar i think euro and

pounds are also possible and that's a

really nice way that you can support the

project here all monies go into directly

into the boat build project potentially

possibly into into some camera gear but

mainly into that into the boat build

and uh

you're not buying me a beer

and uh

it's very much appreciated thanks guys

uh

uh

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so

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so

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yeah so there she is now clearly that's

not high enough for the for the entire

keel but it is certainly high enough for

me to make a good start on the deadwood

section um in fact it's high enough to

get all of the deadwood to the top of

the ballast keel

although i think i need to jack her up a

bit higher but high enough for now to

make a good start

we'll certainly be jacking her up a bit

more in due course

um but there we go

time to start putting some keel on

now from time to time i get these really

nice comments about bits that i've i

have my my design elements my design

inputs i suppose and people ask me if

i've

used cad or or some kind of computer

design there

to do it

so i thought i'd show you uh one of my

design drawings this this is my design

drawing for the uh for the support

blocks for the boat where i jacked her

up and where she's sat on now

there you go check these out

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90.

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so

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nothing left

that is there

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so

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ah

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that's good

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wow

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pretty good

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got a package arrived

one of many

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ah okay

look at those beauties

bronze screws silicone bronze screws

as i've said before all of my metal

metal fastenings under the waterline are

entirely bronze

these have helped me fasten some of

those bits of wood together for the kill

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or something

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um

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that's the right spot now

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hey

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right

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hey

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there it is the first little bit of kill

pops is set off now

little solid

proper solid

on there obviously we're gonna get

another

two pieces

of this six centimeter thick wood to

level her out

same at the back so we've got a flat

piece running through and then we can

just put

solid boards on after that nice and

easily to get a flat surface there let

the ballast kill bolts up to um

also been inside lifted the floorboards

up started marking out the

positions for the kill bolts at least

roughly at the moment

um we'll be drilling them very soon i

think and that guys is it for this week

massive thank you for watching for

coming along on this journey

uh

massive thank you to everybody supports

us on patreon paypal

and

we'll be pushing on

getting a bit more than this tiny little

bit on the bottom here and see you next

time bye

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