Western Flyer Restoration EP 35 The Original Wheelhouse is installed back onto the Western Flyer 

I keep going back a few years ago when a friend and I were motoring throug the canal at LaConnor and saw this derelict boat. On our first trip it was still floating. On our second trip it had sunk and was just a mess covered with mud layers. I smile every time I see her today and think back of what she was, Still have picures of her sticking out of the muddy water.

Man, that is a beautiful boat. What a GEM! Really enjoying the whole restoration!

As a child with my father in the early 1960's I remember distinctly fishing along side the Western Flyer many times out of Bodega Bay in Northern California. She was a big part of my childhood fishing memories. When she comes back home to Monterey I'll be waiting for her to arrive, day or night, rain or shine ❤ Larry Smith

Excellent job guys, so can't wait for launch. She is looking beautiful!!!!!

That little ship is going to be beautiful. Great workmanship and teamwork. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks O so very much....Great to see the house going back on the ship 🚢 Looks good 👀...Good day...👍‍

Wow! An actual video of actual boat work! Very impressive...

Hooray! Boat building!!

Really miss the videos of the guys actually working on the boat is there a reason why they are not filming that stuff any more ?

Love the videos of progress made. Miss a lot of the work as it was done. hopefully some more videos will be shown on the work. Remarkable workmanship.

Really good to see the Wheelhouse back on the Flyer. Can't wait to see the next episodes. Thanks for sharing. From the UK

What a Beauty❤️ It is such a nice, beautiful, awesome boat!!!

I remember the Ship from the very beginning of the Rebuild. I'm so happy to see All that has been accomplished! You guys Pulled It Off👍👍👍🇺🇸🎩🇺🇸🎩🇺🇸

What an incredible sight. I can’t believe I’ve been watching this site for 3 years. Amazing shipwrights.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The last shot at 12:46 is pure gold! Just WOW, appreciate the scale of it all!

Its been 5 months since the last update. There must be a Serious Problem!!! Hoping everything falls into place! This is such a Great Project! Good luck Everyone!🌊🇺🇸🌊🇺🇸🌊

Great historical video, nice work everybody!

Wow, the level of workmanship it would take to get both parts of the boat to match up together is way over the top. Would like to see that up close!

Love the new intro, so awesome see the house back on the hull!!!

I was a millwright/rigger for almost 40 years. In my opinion , the lifting fixture aka “contraption” was a very fine bit of work. 😁👍

Just incredible! What a journey!

Totally embarrassed I just subscribed today because I got Tally Ho notification in RU-vid. Well good thing is I get to binge on your RU-vid channel today. Beaut job guy’s. I’m going to start at first upload. I’m about 2 minutes in. 12 hours later I watched all 34 episodes.

That is one nice boat! Congratulations to you and your team!

I was privileged to see this in person….. very exciting

She's coming along, vast improvement over the wreck she was when you started.

OMG What a beautiful sight! What a change! After two full years of covid it's so uplifting to see! I caught a peek of the unrefinished interior and I'm hoping you leave the toilets as-is like you mentioned :) It's truly a joy to see it - what a great job you all did!

Great to see it coming together 👏🏻👏🏻 Also, love the color scheme.

Finally. After nearly nine months some footage on the boat. This channel appeared nearly dead. So. Are 'we' (13:50) going to see any footage on the completion of the deck, the construction of the bulkheads, and so on? It's not just that I'm curious. I also think it would create great material to convince anyone who would like to contribute tot the project, that the work is still going on.

Thanks for sharing this great moment from the restoration. 😊👍👍👍👍👍

As snug as a bug in a rug ! Super workmanship ! Thankyou everyone !

So great seeing the product come together! Thanks for sharing this adventure Cris!

Absolutely beautiful!

How exciting! What a project!,🚂🚂🚂🚂

Perfect. I love western flyer!

Chris Chase , hope all has been good. I never got to wish you farewell when the Flyer left Snow. I would love to see more recent photos of it if that's possible? Last time I saw it , the masts was being installed and then poof , it was gone. Glad I got the experience to work with that boat and meet you. Hope all is good.

Wow! That's impressive.

We’re have you been I have been hanging out for an update on this grand old ship 🚢👍👍 Can’t wait to see more of it now it is back in side and it will be wet sooner than we think

Nice to see a boat profile.

Leo and Pete need to be doing the vids for western flyer

It is neat to see this! Thanks!

Heart pounding video

Completing a task like this without "Raised Voices" is a true testament to the skills and teamwork you guys have. Well done.

Great to see the progress Chris, looking good!

When I bought my first trawler in Friday Harbor I named her Western Flyer in honor of John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts. It was a 43 Selene. She's been sold a couple of times but I think she's still cruising the PNW.

Merry Christmas to everyone and a happy new year!

Leo beat you to the punch by posting the Flyer's move out of the shop and back to the water.

That is one good looking vessel , great to see fantastic people doing fantastic work. She will be around for a hundred years.

We were in the boat yard watching it get installed on that day!

Impressive! The amount of planning required to pull this off must have been staggering.

Just amazing everyone!!!

I have been following Tally Ho and love-in it. This is jam on top of that. Pretty sweet. New sub.

Absolutely fantastic, a great achievement, looks brilliant. Are they holes for bow thrusters on the fore end?

You guys and ladies are PHENOMENAL !!!!!!!!

Wow, yellow crime scene tape and everything. To see your work of the last year or so hanging that far up in the air must have caused a missed heart beat or two.

Thank you for another spectacular video. Please keep them coming . I count the days between each episode. I can’t wait to see her back in the water !

We've all been following the restoration from the beginning and you couldn't show the boat with the wheelhouse on it once back inside the building??? Who's doing the editing Alfred E. Newman

Quite an operation. And she’s looking near finished. It’s a shame we don’t see actual boat building anymore… hint hint.

Somewhere I must have missed Bow Thrusters were being added! 😳Good Idea for tight marinas/ports with such a high freeboard.

i love this stuff

Is the Western Flyer getting a Bow Thruster? I would have loved to see it getting pushed back into the shed. Not sure why that was left out. Would love to see more videos of the actual work.

How long before you expect to set sail? Looks awesome so far.

Great episode. Keep them coming Chris. 🇨🇦

Looks good. Somehow I don't seem to remember any footage of the house restoration. Did I miss it?

I didn’t know you were installing thrusters on the boat. Should be handy.

Pretty dang cool. A shot from alongside her would've been awesome.

I’m curious about the thinking and methodology behind rebuilding the boat piece by piece vs just starting from scratch

*- "Excellent pick." is what I would say to the crew, en toto.* *- The men I grew up working with would work with the crane operator and signal man and tag line man.* *- If any of them were still alive to see this video, they all would say the same thing.* *- Bravo, well done, as should be expected.*

Wow what happened to the videos of the build of the WF? We are all soo invested in this process and have been watching since the beginning…then nothing. I quite literally check daily to see if a video has been made 😢 Sincerely hope that all is well and everyone involved is healthy. Looking forward to some sort of word…positive or not on what is happening. In the meantime I wish you all good health and be safe

Not sure anyone will see this. does anyone happen to know what has happened to the Channel? I would not have known that the Flyer had splashed and was on its way to the Seattle area if i didn't subscribe to another boat restoration channel that is based in Port Townsend. they cover the entire thing.

Any updates available on this project?

Now it looks like a big boat

Might have been a good idea to put the bulworks on last allowing the house to go on inside?

I was there when the wheelhouse was first lifted-- and everyone was going into panic mode when they realized the house was •way• over the rated weight capacity of the lift, lol!

Would be nice to see side-by-side pics, before & after of the house

Just out of curiosity, is the main engine and the auxiliary engine installed ? Great job on the restoration ! I used to live in Monterey from late the 70's to mid 80's fishing squid and mackerel alongside boats like this. Brings back great memories! Thank you....

Please give us a video tour of the accommodations etc. down below!

Absolutely to watch, thanks Chris 👍👍👍🇮🇪💪💪

Awesome

Fabulous

I read a comment on the Tally Ho FB page that stated that the WF has been put in the water. There was an instagram link as well. and yes its sad that there has not been a follow up video. I hope things are all right and everyone is just very busy

You've missed pushing boat back to shed. That's sad.

Bow thruster? Not that I disagree. Just interesting to see a departure. Makes sense for the protection of this vessel and others around it.

Cheers thanks

As a child of the boomer generation John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie were those who most popular chronicled the Great Depression and the evevnts that led up to the WWII years and lent a glimpse into the travails that our parents and grandparents were struggling through during those times. The addition of the house makes the boat look almost near completion. Kudos to the crew and administrators who have had to do this work in quite uncertain times, somewhat appropriate considering the background of the boat and the books that made this vessel so iconic in American literature. Thank you to the entire conglomeration of those who have been involved in the project of bringing the Western Flyer back from the brink of destruction to being a wonderful vehicle of education for literature, the environment and boat building.

Wow… after all of that…. you just left everyone hanging. 😟

Will there be more videos? The only recent one was from Leo of "Tally-Ho" fame.

How is the Flyer going to be powered? Please tell..

Sweet

That pilot house seems enormous on the ground. Until they drop it on top of the hull..

great progress

Why did we never see any restoration of the pilot house?

Why does.the boat have two big holes on the front. Are they for anchors.

Do we assume western flyer is now back out on the sea of Cortez?

Any new updates coming soon? I'm currently reading "The Log from the Sea of Cortez"

Has the Flyer flown?

That it then? No more videos? Such a shame

is this channel still around?

She is a beauty.

Has she been launched yet?

What is the purpose of the lower row of portholes? They must be at hip height.