• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Drawknives

    Hello everyone, I'm thinking of getting a drawknife, any suggestions on the best type to get? The widest piece of timber I'll be using it on will be about 10 inches wide. Is it best to stick to current makes or is it worth getting a vintage one off eBay, I've seen some I Sorby makes and W C...
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    Well, I'll do my best, Nick! Just need to find some very large grown oak bends for the stem and stern structures... that's holding things up at the moment.
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    Beautiful! That's the wherry Maud, the only clinker-planked trading wherry afloat... for the moment, that is. Lady Garnet will double the number in a few years! I've never sailed on Maud, but she is a lovely-looking craft. She isn't as well known as the Albion, the carvel-planked wherry that I...
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    The International Boatbuilding Training College in Lowestoft... now sadly closed down. :(
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    I've switched over to working on the nine-foot dinghy, which will be the tender for the wherry, in this episode. The dinghy is in the way where it is in the tent, so I need to get it finished!
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    They would push it under with a boathook. Then you lined the metal bands on the stem and sternpost in place, and at that point, the keel "should" be in the right position under the boat. Then you went into the hold, removed the first bolt, and put in the longer bolt... and hoped that it would go...
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    Actually, the slipping keel is designed to be taken off (and put back on again) while the wherry is still in the water. The slipping keel is attached with three bolts, you remove those long bolts to release the keel and then quickly put in shorter bolts to replace them. Putting it back on seems...
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    Very good question. My wherry will have an additional "slipping keel" which will be bolted onto the underside of the oak keel which I'm scarphing in the video. The slipping keel, as the name suggests, is easily removable if the wherry needs to go into shallower water. Traditionally it would be...
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    I’ve been fitting together Lady Garnet’s keel timbers using hooked scarph joints. They’re a bit more complicated to cut than a regular scarph joint, but it’s very satisfying when the two pieces slot together!
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    It’s time to start cutting the keel scarphs for my trading wherry Lady Garnet. Quite exciting to be working with this lovely Norfolk oak that I bought back in January!
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    Wood fungi

    Mike, you are quite right. I will first check whether we have one at the boatyard I'm based at, but if not, it would be useful to own one. I did not know that about Richard - we are indeed fortunate! Might I inquire what the name of the book is, it sounds like something which if I haven't...
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    Wood fungi

    Thank you! I don't have a moisture tester, but the oak has been stacked outside, under cover, all summer. Considering how dry it's been, I would imagine the moisture content has dropped considerably. I might need to improve the cover though, as some ends do get wet if it's rainy and windy.
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    Wood fungi

    Thank you both. I have gotten rid of the fungus and most of the sapwood.
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    Wood fungi

    These mushroom sort of things were on some of the oak I bought for my trading wherry build, does anyone know what they are and if there is any cause for concern? I confess there is a gap in my timber knowledge concerning fungi. The sapwood below the bark was very dry and brittle, easy to break...
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    Boatbuilding is truly underway, in this episode I'm making the station moulds for the clinker-built wherry Lady Garnet. Enjoy!
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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    The final stage before building begins… lofting the lines of the trading wherry Lady Garnet! Bonus content: crewing on the wherry Albion on the Norfolk Broads.
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    Marine fastenings

    Yes, I will be attaching an anode to the hull.
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    Marine fastenings

    They used boat nails in the old days, probably galvanised iron. The wherry Maud, when she was restored in the 70s/80s, used galvanised mild steel bolts, which seems surprising, but that is what they told me it was. I am not sure what the wherry Albion uses, I'm waiting to hear from them...
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    Marine fastenings

    Thanks for the replies so far, everyone. So galvanised is definitely out, and I'm thinking less highly of stainless steel. Silicon bronze keel bolts sound like a good plan, I'd probably just make them myself from a round SB bar and cutting threads both ends for the nuts, which is what I did for...
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    Marine fastenings

    Bolts for the keel, nails for the planking and frames or possibly nuts and bolts for them as well.
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