Craftsmanship
Edited by Steffan Meyric Hughes: +44 (0)207 349 3758 Email: steffan@classicboat.co.uk
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Yard News
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WESTER ROSS, SCOTLAND
New and old, island and mainland Work continues apace at the yards of Isle Ewe boats on the scarcely
mid-build with a 17ft (5.2m) carvel-planked, inboard motor launch.
populated Isle of Ewe, and Johnson & Loftus Boatbuilders in nearly
Meanwhile in Ullapool, Johnson & Loftus are busy with the rebuild of the
Ullapool on the mainland. On the island, Alasdair Grant and team are well
Zulu St Vincent (inset photo above). The hull has been reframed with
on with the rebuild of the Loch Fyne skiff Clan Gordon (bigger photo
home-milled Scottish oak and the stem and sternpost have been
above), with the boat fully re-framed, and planking progressing in native
replaced. Planking is now under way. On the new build front, Tim is
larch and oak, milled at the sawmill shared by the two yards. They are also
building a 16ft (4.9m) pulling boat for an estate on Mull.
PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON
Lid goes onto Tally Ho The Albert Strange-designed, Fastnet-winning gaff yacht Tally Ho of 1910 came a significant step closer to completion in March, when owner and boatbuilder Leo Goolden and a small band of volunteers put the deck planks on. The 48ft (14.6m) vessel now has a swept deck fastened straight onto the deck beams – no plywood subdeck here – with thousands of Frearson-head deck screws, each of which had to be plugged in timber. The deck will be caulked with cotton and payed in the traditional way. Tally Ho is looking more like a yacht every day, but there is still a huge amount of work to do, including the rig, for which the spar timber, Sitka spruce, is ready and waiting. Next will come the cover boards, king planks, bulwarks and stanchions. See Leo’s popular series of videos on his
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website, sampsonboat.co.uk, where you can also give a bit to the project via Leo’s Patreon page.
