Search results

We don't have much in the way of tides in Finland. Theoretically there is but it is a matter of maybe a centimetre while the water level may rise and fall within a range of roughly one and a half metre depending on winds and rainfall and air pressure. Anyway we don't normally keep boats on...

I only have experience with the SCM l'invincibile and Casadei lines and only with older machines. They are not as well made nor as well designed as a Martin or Panhans but quite good enough for those of us who don't run them 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 40 years straight. For a part timer...

Those who have caulked the bottom of a ship say the long head helps a lot with ergonomics when you are hammering upwards. I have never done it myself so I can only trust their words. The hoops are conical and are hammered further onto the head as it wears. They say that old caulking mallets...

Besides this I have also scrapoed the inside of a 16 for planing skiff clean from paint and oiled it. You cannot paint the inside of a spruce boat in our climate. The wood must be able to breathe or it will rot very fast.

The job is finished. Only the stern tube and propeller is still missing.

I still suspect that many of those why have replied to this thread have never crosscut a 40 cm log by hand. It is very very slow and hard work if you don't have the right saw. With enough time on hand anything can be done. You can cut it with an axe if you want. I have crosscut several logs in...

This is the only type of handsaw that will be of any use for crosscutting a 40 cm log. https://www.flobyoverskottslager.se/products/timmersvans-anvand?variant=19417376620641 They were used by loggers in the Nordic countries before the chainsaw era. Then there are two man crosscut saws of cause...

Harvesting a new breasthook for another boat. I had left a high stump when I felled the tree in winter and when the ground had thawed I could uproot it. The road was closed so I had to uproot the stump entirely by hand as I couldn't get there with the tractor.

It is starting to look like a boat from the inside. I am working on the engine cover and the exhaust plumbing. We sawed some boat planking stock for future projects.

I have made quite a few moulding planes for my own use and never used any floats. I did like the oldtimers did it around here. Drilled holes from both ends for guidance ans chiseled it out and pared smooth. Next time I make wooden planes I will test whether the hollow chisel mortiser can be...

Spindle moulders with that type of control have been around for almost 20 years. They have proven to be useful and often able to earn back their costs in workshops producing a limited number of standard products or a range similar products in varous sizes. They have also proven to be hardly...

Neither Hatz nor kubota makes motors small enough for this purpose. The smalles Kubotas I have managed to find are around 10 hp which is 2-5 times too large. Another problem is that a small inboard in an easily driven displacement hull must have a torque curve suitable for the purpose. For...

I wish someone would start making this sort of small inboard engines again. Preferably modernised with overhead valves to allow for a better shaped combustion chamber to cut down fuel consumption even further. Bröderna Wickströms Motorfabrik was disolved in 1980 and most of the casting patterns...

I see you are in the same situation as I am when running a site saw in Finnish winter weather. Using gloves in an inherent risk but working barehanded would be an ever greater risk under those specific conditions. Ballancing risks is the key.

In cold weather one must wear gloves when using machinery because otherwise all fingers would end up amputated due to frostbite. Using gloves is a risk but not using them means certain disaster especially when the temperature is below -15 celsius and the machine is making a bit of a wind. As...

Fitting the outer keel I had to make the keel in two parts to enable me to assemble it. Shaping the outer keel with spindle moulder and hatchet. When I was working it struck me how some youtube celebrities would have spent weeks building router jigs for the work I did in a couple of hours...

I cannot comment on it. This is not because of any kind of politeness...... politeness isn't one of my habits. I just know nothing about that style of boatbuilding and I am fully aware of my total lack of knowledge. Except it looks very difficult to me. Though they say it is easier than the...

I have only learned traditional clinker building and know nothing about plywood building. It looks very difficult to me and yet people on the internet claim that plywood is easier for an amateur than clinker. I just don't know. The building method is totally foreign to me and maybe that is why...

Three things could easily go wrong in my oppinion: 1. Wasting too much time on furniture grade surfaces. Those fancy yachts with perfect varnish on them look great but in practice no commoner can spend that much time on a boat. It is better to aim at a good workboat finish and finish the project...

Making progress with the garboards.