Nautical Terminology: Knowing the Names. Tools & Tips #4, Part 1 

OMG I always learn so much from Louis. It's amazing how he so easily reaches into his brain to explain all this stuff. I can't imagine anyone explaining this stuff in a more simple straight forward manner

I just learned more in 15 min than I have in a month. Thanks lou!

I could watch Louis all day! :)

Love listening to Lou, not quite sure why, am a complete land lubber. Must be my nautical ancestors!

Louis is keeping busy, great for us

When ever anyone finishes explaining something like this in detail I like to test their sense of humor and say " I'm sorry I didn't catch that". Luv Lou he is the Master of masters

Lou says he doesn't know it all, but I bet he's a lot closer to it than anyone else.

More of these, please! I bought Chapelle's book on boatbuilding after hearing you mention it in an earlier video. It's brilliant and very detailed, but I hadn't gotten a page into it before he started using terms I had never heard of without defining them, and with a clear assumption that the reader understood! He does occasionally define terms, but a glossary would have been really helpful. I ended up also buying his books "American Small Sailing Boats" and "Yacht Designing and Planning". With the exception of not always defining terms, they are quite clear and easy to understand.

Were learning all the time, especially with vids like this! CHEERS from Westcoast Canada!

all is well when it is a 2 Louis day

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. You have been an inspiration Lou!

Lou, I have to say that I love watching your videos! Very rare amount of people being so enthusiastic and emotional about their work! I really love seeing that there are others out beeing so freaky as I am about tools, wood, operations, and boats! Please go on! best of regards from Vienna, Austria

Appreciate you sharing your knowledge, thank you. My brother was a shipwright and so much knowledge was lost when he passed on. More please.

Lovely video, Lou, and a great way to explain the nomenclature of different parts of a wooden boat. BTW, what you called "chocks" I know as "fairleads", those bronze fittings in the toe rail through which mooring lines, mostly, are led.

Thanks for sharing your experience 👍🏻

Nice to see/hear the same terminology for boat parts used as we use in the UK, would have thought that there would be more differences.

Great information, learned a lot.

Love the lines of the boat 👍😎🌞

Lou is give a class on ship parts, I got about 80% from wooden model biulding. Now just to get the real thing, and use everything he has taught us. Now that would be a master class if we could get him into that. Great video Lou.

Good job Ken! Oh, you too Louis :)

Thanks Lou.

Yes no doubt , I know that I have been working on boats for over 40 years , worked at yards and Museums, and Chapelle's was dropped into my lap when I was 17 , it is a "Bible" of sorts. it takes time to absorb this stuff even if you are interested. I was lucky b because in the 70ts when I fist got interested in wooden boats in the Chesapeake, there were still some oldtimers around who were trained pre-WW2 in boat & yatch construction. The best way is by absorbing the knowledge then working on the boats . A nice introduction to terminology.

Excellent stuff! Should be the prerequisite for watching Acorn to Arabela and Tally Ho :-)

I want to see a video about setting a boat up on those stands and how do you deal with having to access parts that are covered by them.

By and large, the same terms are used here in NE Scotland, though it's funny how many of the vowels differ. That might be a dialect thing. We say hid ends (pronounced hiddens) and ribbit for example. Stealer is not a term used to my knowledge, we'd use joggle (pronounced joogle) Which is also the term used for steps for deck plank ends. Caulking is pronounced kacking and an adze is refferd to as an eech. I guess there are local names for much more of this stuff, but, hey I've bored you enough.

Hi!

Dolphin striker was my high school nickname.

Great video! Can we have more of these?

I learned stuff! No surprise there. Maybe Lou can get up on deck and we can see if she has quarter bits.

Will there be a test on Monday ?

Is that water pickup facing in the right direction?

Good day Lou. This was a very enjoyable presentation and I have a couple of questions that you may wish to answer for me. Firstly, is there a reason that a boat would be carvel planked against a clinker design. Does the design relate to the purpose the boat is to be used for or just a preference for one design over the other? The other is a bit more mundane question about painting the hull. When a boat is being built or refurbished, how or when do they paint the part of the hull that is held up by those stands which I suppose stay there until the boat is launched. Does it leave a little section that is unpainted where the block is?

And there was me thinking I could learn something about shipbuilding in my local city. Bristol England.

Any chance you could talk about the A frame ladders next to the boat? They look home made.

Interesting that the propeller is offset. If I were to build a boat it would probably capsize immediately, but somehow having the propeller and shaft perfectly centered would be high on my list of things I should have done. (Thankfully I would probably die of old-age before I completed my masterpiece and therefore spared the indignity of viewing the rapid dismantling)

Bristol RI?

What accent does this Gent have? He could talk South Shore Nova Scotian anyday. great Vid.

Come on Louis, we're still waiting to hear more about that Pan Head HD

Way to go Ken stop it with the poppet

Major Walter Wingfield.

I believe it's Lindsay's law : If the draft of your vessel exceeds the depth of the water, you're most assuredly aground.

Where does the “Sponson” come in on that boat Lou?

What's a boat though?

I always thought Dave Chappelle was fond of wooden vessels.

Hoist the poop deck!

Fluff.