As this what I love to do and want to try and get other people involved in it I will be posting all sort of things to do with wooden boatbuilding and try to help out when I can if anyone is interested, I am still only learning myself and I guess I always will be,



This clip is from Hands on the Shannon one design "part 2 is on the side" hope you like it.




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This little one is called a "coracle" and has been around for thousands of years, an easy build you could do over a weekend.

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As this what I love to do and want to try and get other people involved in it I will be posting all sort of things to do with wooden boatbuilding and try to help out when I can if anyone is interested, I am still only learning myself and I guess I always will be,


This clip is from Hands on the Shannon one design "part 2 is on the side" hope you like it.




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That was a really interesting video Fergal. A real craftsman at work. Many thanks for sharing it

What an extremely interesting trio of films, beautifully concieved and put together, with a subject matter right up my street.
However, it's a nuisance to watch them on u-tube, with the transmission having to wind up every so often. It stretches your patience and one sometimes loses out on what's being said just proir to the next 'wind-up'. I wonder if there is any way of overcoming that?

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What an extremely interesting trio of films, beautifully concieved and put together, with a subject matter right up my street.
However, it's a nuisance to watch them on u-tube, with the transmission having to wind up every so often. It stretches your patience and one sometimes loses out on what's being said just proir to the next 'wind-up'. I wonder if there is any way of overcoming that?

Hi Thomas. I can work with wood and engines but when it comes to computers I am lost, you could try pausing it and let it load up.
Do you do a bit of boatbuilding,if so I would love to see some photos.

My builds.

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Fergal,
That's a great record of your recent build. Nice boat ! More like what you'd see on the Thames, with all that shiny varnish. I see you first had to construct a special shed to build it in !
I built two actual full sized rowing boats while a student, oh so very long ago and few photos of these survive. I didn't photograph them in build at all. They were drawn up by myself.
The first one was a half decked Ply 13'X5' hard chined rather dumpy boat which I used myself for exercise and fishing on the Barrow at Monasterevan from 1959 to 1965. The next was a joint venture with a friend (alas now deceased) and was a ply double chined 18'X4' slimmer lower-built open rowboat.
Much later I bought plans from Ian Oughtred of Scotland for a Thames Traditional type double skiff which would have been bonded clinker ply. That would have been a recent project, but an old 1904 built beautiful 24' Thames Traditional double skiff came up for sale in Windsor and we bought it, towed it over here and we use it regularly in the Season.
We also have an old sailing boat down in Ballinskelligs, so there's no incentive to build anything full size at the moment. I have built several rather nice boat models in recent years, mainly for my grandchildrens' amusement.

We're not into powerboats at all. Tom K.



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Thomas
When "download" appears just above the U-tube window, click on it and it should download to video library in Windows. Even on broadband the downloading of some longer clips, like these Hands ones, can take up to 5 minutes. But when its done, its done, and then replays are quick and stutter free if you have a decent PC. These also consume a fair bit of storage - up to 50mb for some of the Hands clips, so make sure you have enough space available.
Enjoy
Graham

Hi lads

Would one or two of ye boat building men be prepared to attend the Herritage Boat Association week at Banagher 30 May-6 June and demonstrate the skills required to make a Coracle .


Donal

Donal there is a fellow at Roughgrange on the Boyne who makes traditional coracles hazel and hide, he has one building which is 30ft long by 9ft beam all ash hazel and hide. He was the main man in the recent "Rivers" documentary on the Boyne. I will dig out his contact site.
Regards Tommy Mc Loughlin

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> Would one or two of ye boat building men be prepared to attend the Herritage Boat Association week at Banagher 30 May-6 June and demonstrate the skills required to make a Coracle .
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> Donal

Hi Tom

Tom: he has one building which is 30ft long by 9ft beam

Now if we could put a Bollinder in her we could call in a Mini M

Donal

Should carry a bolinger no problem but the shaft gland might present a problem. I guess it weights a couple of ton
Tommy

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> donaboland1 wrote:
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> Hi Tom
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> Tom: he has one building which is 30ft long by 9ft beam
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> Now if we could put a Bollinder in her we could call in a Mini M
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> Donal

The chap who builds coracles on The Boyne is Claidhb O Gibne [ spelling]. I have met him and seen his boats.

PJ

Hi Tommy

I think this the link you are looking for
[www.newgrangecurrach.com]

There is also a boat built by some members of the Boyne Navigation Branch
featured on the Branch web page. A selway fisher design I think

New years resolution to rejoin branch and start going to work parties again


James Maher

Hi Fergal
Beautiful Boat
Even more amazing that you built it here. Materials are hard to find and expensive in Ireland
If people have dificulty watching hands video it may be in your local Library. Thats where I found a copy in Blanchardstown. They have the complete series and also some boatbuilding books. Cian de Buitlear also produced a set of books with videos with line dawings showing the construction of traditional Irish boats

[www.tradboats.ie]

Hard to find now but worth it

Regards

James

Thanks James I don't I could have done it without the internet and ebay, many nights spent waiting to snipe a good deal

This build is a gorgeous 50' strip planked schooner built in the phillippines were there are still some skilled boat builders willing to work at a reasonable cost.

[fusionschooner.blogspot.com]

My builds.

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I have just dug out an old photo taken about 1960 or '61 just below the aqueduct on the river Barrow in Monasterevan of my rather dumpy working rowboat that I built in my parents' mews loft during the Summer of 1959.
It was skinned in one quarter inch ply, and had a hard chine and deep-ish vee botom profile, so when empty it rode rather high, with the chines well clear of the water. Having a 5 foot beam it was stable, and the bottom profile made it surprisingly swift to row.
Note the old counterweighted bascule on the drawbridge and the roofless derelict buildings. That field next the aqueduct is now an expensively built childrens' playground park,...locked and chained up when I recently visited it !!

all family built ( dad, brother & me )
First boat was a 14', ply clinker on oak speedboat in 1967/68




then in 1971/72 T14 a 14' raceboat, we bought a bare hull from Tremlett's then cold moulded the transom & outboard well in ply ( both curved ) and then cold moulded ( double diagonal ) the deck in inner skin 3mm birch ply finished in 3>4mm mahogany & then completed the rest of the fit-out.



then in 1973 we built T15 similar to T14 above but 15' long which I still use today, it is fitted with its original 1976 Merc 500 50hp which is still "original" running with its original spark plugs & prop.........




Austin





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Fabulous boats, Pas Vite. You've obviously been into powerboats and racing for some time. Is that Carrickfergus Castle I see in the background in one of the pics.? I love the diagonal planked polished deck on the T15.

Can't compete with 50+ horses, which was a lot in those days.
I've just come across a rather faded launch day photo showing the old canal harbour buildings at Monasterevan.
Power that day was a friend's 3HP outboard, which to us was exhilarating !

Hard to believe now, but the material costs for that entire rowboat came to just £16-odd....A very cheap budget build, no frills. More than half a Century ago, now.




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TK, thanks for ur kind words on our boats, yes that is Carrickfergus Castle, photo by Belfast Telegrath during the 1972 Round-the -Lough, 5 laps = 100mile, Gold Bond Marathon race........1st in class & 1st overall ( Index of Performance rating ) av speed 39mph...



and THANK YOU for ur pics.......its great seeing them & on inland waters too..........keep them coming

There is something about old wooden boats that seem to hold memories much more than fiberglass ones.

Here are some more old videos from the 60's, I think the amphibious caravan might catch on.

[www.britishpathe.com]