Fitting the Lead Ballast Keel (Tally Ho / EP120) 

Was a beautiful boat in the slings. What was it?

Thought it looked new, port equip rusts so quickly!

Really wishing that Leo will introduce us to the Travelift crew, in one of his Port vignettes. Those guys are an essential part of the scene !

Classic small town thing to have in the newspaper. I love Port Townsend. Go there at least once a year.

We have a large boat yard for fishing vessels in Homer, Alaska, and they also just this past fall got a new 75 ton! (Their previous was 45 ton) It's beautiful and it opens up many new possibilities!

No failures there, just part of the learning curve.

@J Hemphill exactly. No shame in failure. Something can be both a failure and a part of a learning curve.

Amen to that…

you may add his skills to asses the end of the project :D

Very well said. I could not agree more. 👍

It's no wonder people want to go and spend their time helping build this boat. Leo is extremely likeable. If my circumstances were different I'd be out there in a heartbeat.

It's certainly one of the best binges on YT.

I woke up in the middle of the night hearing a famous voice in my head: "Hi, my name's Leo and I'm a boat-builder and a sailor and I'm on a mission to rebuild and restore the 112 year old classic sailing yacht Tally Ho." So I'll be going down to my local "Tally Ho Anonymous" meeting tomorrow night where I'll say: "Hi, My name's William and I'm a Tally Ho Addict and I'm on a mission to find the next Tally Ho video!"

🤣

The Lead carpentry certainly was impressive.

Planner, Project Manager, presenter, the list goes on and on……😮

Yes! ;)

Me too

Yep, but then it all stated to make sense as Leo MACHINED the metal keel with a planer and chain saw...LOL. Actually the song YARD SALE always makes me think of Adam as his was the first channel I heard it on. It is being used more frequently now on other channels.

Riveting is a different metalworking process, this is casting.

@@kevinvermeer9011 lel

@@kevinvermeer9011 semantics

Riveting also means so interesting that I am unable to look away…

Its really soft its actually not much different than hardwood. Wax helps the friction but lead cuts more like wood than metal

Tool steel doesn't care. Lead lubricates as its cut.

Made me wince a bit watching that too!

Sounds like designing a knife to cut butter. Sweet

@@js53168 My 'Leo' moment this episode was watching the tip of the chainsaw getting closer and closer to his boot!

Wipe a damp rag over it every couple of swipes, it’s like butter.

Nah, lead is softer than some woods! Nah bother.

That's a good, non-judgemental word, 'ambitious'! 🙂

@@tedf1471 no ones keeping score here.

Just having a quick look at comments before making that very point.👍

After seeing the new mold go together I was thinking the same thing before the lead was even hot.

I enjoy Leo's taste in music too. Must read the notes more and see what Spotify has.

I 2nd that !

Plus 1

It felt extremely weird hearing that while the video wasn’t finished… 😆

@@ScanEarth I wonder if the link to Abom was intentional with all that heavy lifting today.

And especially the wheels

i’m curious what those straps were rated for and if they had been load tested prior to this use.

Same. I worked on navy boats for 20 years, and bought and used a bunch of those straps. I too was worried they were underrated.

Exactely what I thought ! Is Puffin a similar ship as Tally Ho ? If so, wow, Beautiful ! 😊 Can't wait to see all the rigging on it ! I did'nt think so much hard, precise work was necessary ! Most impressive ! I wonder how the original boat was built without the modern tools and equipment !

@@marcryvon My reaction too. Once more I try to imagine how this was done in 1910.

Birds of a feather flock together. He is incredible.

I am curious also........

Agree. I kept thinking: where’s the mechanical attachment?!?

If you look back at episode 8 you will see that it is attached with large bronze bolts. But I suspect that he is going to have to raise the boat quite a bit more to get them under the keel, when he removed them he dug holes in the ground to get them out, with a concrete floor he won't be able to do that.

The holes for the keel bolts will be drilled from the top and bolts inserted from the top. The holes will be counter sink from the bottom to allow for nuts and washers. He set the level of the boat to allow for the counter sinking as he noted in this episode. I think he drove the old bolts down because it was easier.

I thought that just the tar would hold it in place, like glue 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣. (Yeah actually bolts, BIG bolts.)

Shouldn't these very long bolts be installed before the deck and internal bulkheads are fitted?

How?? What keeps it on?

@@thetruthexperiment Large silicon bronze bolts through both the lead keel and the wood keel. My guess is somewhere between 3/4 and 1 inch thick, at least a half dozen of them. They will drill down from the top. The nuts on the bottom will be countersunk into the lead. I'm speculating a bit, but watch and see next episode. It should be fascinating.

@@chuckprichard3691 yeah, I imagine it would have to be very very secure. I wonder how many ships sunk because their ballast fell off into a mile of ocean. So brave.

@@thetruthexperiment Well, sometimes that happens, but almost always this is race boats. A boat like Tally Ho would be very safe if handled by a decent sailor, which Leo certainly is. It will still be secure in 100 more years.

Same issue with aluminum, it's such a soft metal it can cling to the bit and clogs it up and just kind of sticks to itself. You have to have a really sharp bit and go slowly so the bit doesn't get too hot as well as very frequently backing off to get rid of the chips

It really isn't that different than machining aluminium, brass, steel or any other metal. Except I'd expect lead is pretty gummy. (maybe not with 2% antimony)

Lead is pretty soft.

The Endurance looks to be in good enough shape to raise and restore :)

Dave nice to hear your comments from Wales. My family came from Wales in the early 1800's as blacksmiths to the United States. Hope you don't mind on me responding to you through this RU-vid channel. My dream is to visit Wales some day. God Bless!

@@davidthomas2126 not at all it’s alway nice to hear from anyone who have roots in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 or not 😊 Do you know what part of wales your family came from?

That might be a good idea, but the video would not be nearly as much fun.

@@davefoc well there is that. ^~^

I was thinking the same thing. How on earth do you attach that to the keel? Initially thought they would put the anchors in while the lead was still liquid but now I have no idea.

This is also my question...

I imagine they will use long, thick bronze bolts and bolt it right through the ballast keel and a keel timber. Same way the different pieces of a centerline are held together.

@@maxxod1 Keel bolts! You can either cast them in , or cut a side pocket in the keel (either normally done on deep keels) or through bolts (for shallow keels like this one). I would guess that they will just through bolt in this case.

They'll use long bronze bolts all the way through the bronze floors to the bottom of the keel. At 13:25 Leo talks about raising the boat high enough to be able to drill counter-bores in the bottom of the lead, this is so he can get a thick washer and nut on the the end but be flush with the bottom of the keel. So they won't be 'bolts' like store purchased bolts, they will be solid long bronze rods and then just threaded at each end about an inch and a half or so. They keel bolt size will be anything from 5/8 to 1 inch diameter, my guess is he will go with 3/4 inch. 316 L Stainless has a stronger tensile strength but there is a risk of long term crevice corrosion (where there is no oxygen present), bronze performs better over the long term in underwater applications like this. You make up for the difference in tensile strength by using larger diameter bronze than your would stainless steel and/or you use more keel bolts. I'm guessing there will be around 14 to 16 keel bolts total.

And how those bolts will fit around all the other bolts already in the centerline :)

Paul. 13:25

and i thought , what a day it will be when we see tally in that big oll blue crane

@@breakshot7451 yeah thought that too lol! 👍👍⛵⛵

Thought this is a new boat ?? Except for some wood n fittings what's left of the first boat ?? thank you.

@@MegaBait1616 think about what you just said and get back to me

@@MegaBait1616 There is an episode in which Leo talks about whether this is a new build or a restoration. IIRC he basically says that if the boat would have been maintained during her life most parts would have been replaced by now anyway. He did start from the original boat and first took out all bits that were rotten or no longer trustworthy. I think the only major pieces that are left from the original boat is the transom and most of the lead in the keel. I'm sure some of the original fittings will be used too.

Guess this is like grandpa's old axe. Best axe ever, shifted the handle three times, and the head twice....

@@Dronston its the ship of theseus paradox.