In wooden boats we tend towards simple traditional finishes. Varnish. Alkyd Enamel and boat sauce. In all of those finishes linseed oil, or a similar curing oil is the foundation upon which all of them are formulated. In today’s video we used boat sauce which is a bit...
Building the Bouchie Dory Part 30 – Inwales and Outwales Let’s talk about traditions. British and North American. Maybe that’s not quite the right term. Instead of tradition let’s call it frequently applied practices because traditions...
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...
