Gemma for safety sake please use a push stick when using the table saw because timber will kick back at times or you hit a softer piece of wood and it will shoot through and you could lose a big chunk of skin or even fingers , we love watching you and Simon working together not just Simon with mention of you at home healing , love your vlog best wishes from Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺
Big fan of this build. Unlike others such as Tally-Ho that built a restomod recreation of the original ship, you are actually saving and restoring THE actual ship that steamed to Dunkirk to save the troops.
When Health and Safety really started to bite, it was dangerous as it was a one size fits all mentality. I worked in tunneling and those HiVi waistcoats caught in everything you had to squeez by. One chap got caught in the conveyor belt rollers, luckily there was a safety cable the full length of the conveyor that he could pull and close it down. The safety cable wasn't in the H&S regs by the way. So a bright spark came up with HiVi stripped T shirts and best of all HiVi stripped trousers, the moving legs and arms caught the eye a lot better than the body waist coats.
Needed the distraction from a hard week-seeing you two bantering on and just plodding on was a good therapeutic moment!!!!thanks for making great videos. Sometimes it’s more than just “paint your boat time.” You guys really make one’s day brighter!!!! So many difficult things in life and you’re both a ray of sunshine in the storms of things. Thanks
Well done again. From my job in the chemical industry supplying raw materials to the adhesive industry i learned that Larch can have some challenges when it comes to adhesion properties. So I would recomend you to do some glue ups with your typical glies you use and compare it to the different wood you are using, and see if you still get a good bond also to Larch wood.
Howdy Gemma & Simon! Wanted to make sure you knew that the Aurora Cruise shit in California sank!!! Big bear hugs from Kenny in Ohio USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to you and all your supporters for making these videos happen. The progress is amazing and the end goal getting that bit closer every day. Well done all.
You two can take ice to iceland and sand to the sahara but when it comes to sarinda you do what is needed and by gum you getting there. Much kudos to you both and hope all is well. crack on
WOW, great to see work with beam shelves and doggy (SP?) planks! We know that safe deck will come next and we will see dry interior. I can’t imagine what you have done with your daily lives to accomplish this. THANKS to all! Thx for bringing us along! 😊😊😊 John Ken
Robinier wood (false acacia) is used to make posts in sea water, it resists 100 years. I made my courtyard posts with it 40 years ago and they haven't moved. We find plenty of them in the forest.we also make fence piles with it
Another great video you have put out this week. Those views of you driving back from the timber yard so pretty and green . Jema over here in Australia we have just had The Biggest Morning Tea to raise money for Breast Cancer such a good cause as we lost our Dear Mum to this terrible disease. I hope that you and your Friends have a blast doing the Fishing competition. Looking forward to seeing the next week’s video to see the progress with the boat .
Considering how well Sari survived decades of neglect and poor maintenance, it's a testament to how well she was originally built by those war time shipwrights. I'm sure they are all beaming down on you guys as you bring their masterwork back to life. The biggest sacrifice has been the many tea bags that valiantly gave their lives so that the mighty crew of Sarinda could bravely soldier on without nodding off while sanding and painting...Perhaps, some day, an hundred years from now some as yet unborn re-builder will dig into Sarinda and declare, 'Blimey! Some cracking Lads overbuilt this old girl! But we can't figure out what the sign on this small locker means, 'Robbo's Cupboard'?'...
Also a tribute to the quality of wood. Gramps built a DAM out of planks of old hemlock he CHOPPED down & took to mill. Used whole trees laid across stream, which floods so bad 4' dia boulders roll like basket balls, put planks in vertical. 50 yrs ago, it's almost all still there! The old family place, I do any work & cut the old hemlock and it still smells like day it was cut. That much resin is in it. It's like nature impregnated it with natural epoxy. To my everlasting regret folks listened to a GC who was an old friend doing the work, not me, a mere architect, sigh, family, when refurbishing house & had vast amounts of old growth 150 yr old hemlock diag sheathing ripped off & thrown in the dump, replacing it w WAFER BOARD. Sigh...
I forgot to finish watching this episode as it got late. Watching you going through Dust masks and steamed up glasses, reminded me to mention the Trend 'Stealth ' mask to you. They are reasonably cheap and seal very well. I have never had my specs steam up using it. Cheaper in the long run compared to the disposable ones. Its also very light and is not much bigger than the paper ones. Screwfix have them and Amazon too. Best mask I've ever used and I've used a lot over the years.
Wrong. Milwaukee tools introduced the first reciprocating saw under the brand name "Sawzall" which is a play on "saws all". Ever since, people colloquially refer to every reciprocating saw as a "Sawzall". Same thing as every circular saw being a "Skilsaw".
Just dealing to some rot in my own wooden boat at the moment. I would’ve been alarmed and intimidated at one point but my task now looks insignificant in comparison - your video makes me feel so much better!
As alwys, I'm blown away at he work you do. But saddened at the huge setback as experenced by your friends at the Aurora Restoration project. Thus far, all news is from big media and government officials. Will be interesting to hear of it from your perspective.
Back in my Army days we called that sort of work space 'ya need two strong young boys and a well trained left handed chimpanzee to reach (and we were working electronics in the late 70's)
Nice goin m8s, love the repartee, cracks me up! You do a bludy rippa job on Sarinda and everything else ya do! Keep up the good work, stay vertical Eh!
Just love how fast this is progressing, teamwork is excellent as always. Gemma making video's and Simon doing the hard work ;-) just kidding, you both work very hard. The deck project is getting closer and closer, wonder how the connection between the deck and the sides will be made but it all will become clear soon ;-) Nice to see some nice landscape views in a boat restauration video ;-)
thats a nice gadget, but you can also grab your hard boiled eggs out the hot water that just came to mind coz i was looking at your hard boiled head hehe
My mother has one of those tea bag tools. She was born in Lakenheath, Suffolk but now lives near Seattle. I was over that way towards the end of last year. Was hoping to be able to go by and look at the boat from the shore, but unfortunately not enough time to head down there from Edinburgh.
Slow but steady, you will finish it soon, then the real work begins. New deck time hopefully this summer? That would be nice, keep the rain out and stop more rot. great update 2x👍
Good to see you wearing mask when removing old "lagging" A couple of my old ERA friends from the RCN are suffering from that dust having caused some serious lung problems.
Watching you take of the metalwork and insulation from the exhaust, takes me back to my fist job, Insulation engineer. the good old days making the metal work out of Aluminium or Galvanised Steel.
Did you guys know that The Aurora Restoration Project ship sank. Chris sold the ship to a new person. RIP Aurora. its good you guys keep a very good eye on your ship.
Reciprocating saw, here in the US usually called a sawzall. We've got a lot of folk with a "plumber's crack" here in the US. I've got a son-in-law with a plumber's crack when he bends over, he's an electrician and a big boy. I give him a**t about it all the time. We've way to many big folk here in the US. I really enjoy your videos. I'm an old lady carpenter/contractor. Take care!
You could do with a square bucket on a rope to catch those old copper rivets. That stuff is (very) not cheap. A garden pruning saw (chain saw type) could be ideal for taking out rotted wood. Worth a thought maybe.
Well done Simon Jemma, you've made huge headway into Sarinda's repairs& by Christmas you'll be anchored off the coast of Trinidad & Tobago at this rate. 😁
Glad things are getting there. I once bought my wife a bench saw for Christmas she loved it and spent many hours using it. You cutting the planks reminded me of that.
I imagine that oak would have been plentiful for a while after the Great Storm of a few years ago from all of the trees that were blown down? So, the work continues.... do you guys ever dare to think about a possible launch date? Sarinda is going to be as near to new as anyone can make her, you two are doing such an amazing job of restoring her! I think I might be a little nervous about èxposing her to really bad weather but that's not likely anyway so she should have many more years of life ahead of her!
I just read a story that the Cruise Ship Aurora has sunk at it's berth .. very sad news. I remember the time that Gemma went on board and thought this will be a lovely restoration. Such a shame.
Gemma, you need one of the auto-body sanders that have the small thin belts and allow you to rotate the length of the sander surface to get into tight places. 30, 45, 90 degree along the belts length to the body of the sander. I used one at a friends shop - game changer. I know Milwaukee has one, probably others as well.
