Clench nailing is a little bit tricky to get the hang of. Most people make the mistake of driving the nail home and then just smacking over the tail on the inside. (Incidentally, this is exactly how all the historic wooden commercial fishing boats in BC are fastened,...
Filleting was one of those techniques that I royally bungled my first few times. I don’t do a ton of filleting so it’s a slow process of little victories. My first challenge was not knowing how to get the epoxy into the joint and not knowing how much to put in. I’m...
We’re back to pick up where we left off with our transom repair. In the last video we made a bandaid to patch over our wound. Now we need to do the plastic surgery that makes it look like nothing untoward ever happened in the first place. We also have a little...
Building the Bouchie Dory Part 23 – Fixing Mistakes We all make mistakes and I have made a ton of them. It sucks but all we can do is try to smarten up, which seems to be hopeless in my case. Failing that we just have to try to fix them well. This is one...
Building the Bouchie Dory Pt. 22 – Installing grounding shoes Funny little story to go with this one. When I got out of boatbuilding school I got a job working for an old time BC Forestry Service shipwright. His name was Ed McGeachy. Ed worked from a home...
