Rebuilding Tally Ho

The Albert Strange 1910 Gaff Cutter "Tally Ho" is in danger of being destroyed if she is not moved this summer. I go to Oregon to see how rotten she really is, and try to decide whether to take the project on.

Having decided to take on the restoration of Tally Ho, I clear the new site and wait for an enormous truck to bring her up to Sequim, Washington state... but will she fit around the side of the house?!

I'm on a mission to rebuild a 1910 gaff cutter called Tally Ho. Having moved the boat up the pacific coast of the US, its time to build a huge shed over her. But I only have a week, and there's nobody around to help..........-If you'd like to support the Tally Ho project, please Subscribe and Share. Thanks!

Before getting started with the Tally Ho restoration, I need to clear out the workshop and create a space for me to live in.

In this episode; I have to take off to Maine for some sailing work aboard the mighty Three-masted Schooner Adix, and then furnish and move into the workshop loft when I get back. I also make a lofting table for the Tally Ho drawings, , in a thinly disguised attempt to put off all the real work waiting for me just outside the workshop.

In this video I finally start actual work on the 1910 Albert Strange Gaff Cutter Tally Ho. Once I have cleared a bunch of timber out of the boat, I can begin removing the Garboards ( the lowest planks, next to the keel ). But they are stubborn, and don't want to leave the hull of the sailing yacht that they have been fastened to for 107 years.

In this episode, I start uncovering Tally Ho's huge teak keel timber, jackhammering the concrete out of the bilge and removing the prop shaft. I go for a hike with a new friend, and I get a worrying visit from the building inspector about my new boat-shed.

In this episode, I remove all the bronze keel bolts and then try to lift the whole 15 ton boat up off its lead keel. I also hear back from the local building inspector about my shed, and check out some more of the local scenery.

To help fund the project, in this video I go to work delivering a Three-masted Gaff Schooner from Rhode Island down to Bermuda. We leave Newport into the tail of a storm and have a fast and exciting sail South

In this video I brace the hull of the boat in preparation for removing the deck and take off some deck hatches. I get a visit from a lovely English girl, and also get my first voluntary labour from a very tall neighbour. Oh, and I buy some funky Roller Skates!

In this video I talk about why I am rebuilding this boat, when it would probably be easier to just build a new one. I also get some help to take off all the deck planks and demolish the deck beams, and I consider the next stages of work.

I get attacked by a rogue falling deck beam, remove knees and chainplates, and launch my Patreon page.