[Ep. 8] - Saving North Star - Connections to The North West Passage
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2024
- In todays episode the crew wraps up the majority of the demolition, James talks about North Star's history and her role in the cold war and the US nuclear defence warning system. Quill shapes the first frames and fits it to the bow, and the stern gets lifted off for pattern making and rebuild.
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Credits:
Owner of North Star: June Victoria Harrison
Executive Producer: Lyle Franklin
Director & Producer: Johannes Fast
Camera 1: Johannes Fast
Camera 2: Emerson Cymet
Music: Lyle Franklin
Post Production: Johannes Fast
French Subtitles: Morgan Labaisse
Books by the third owner of the North Star, R. Bruce Macdonald:
Sisters of the Ice:
www.amazon.com/Sisters-Ice-He...
North Star of Herschel Island - The Last Canadian Arctic Fur Trading Ship.
www.amazon.com/North-Star-Her...
Business Enquiries:
Marketing@favouriteboatworks.com
www.favouriteboatworks.com
www.northstarofherschelisland.ca
Favourite Boatworks is a Vancouver based wooden boat repair and restoration business that offers professional shipwright, corking, and rigging services in the lower mainland. The business is based in Vancouver on the Fraser River and is servicing British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest wooden boat fleet.
We wish to acknowledge that Favourite Boatworks is located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia. We pay our respects to the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples of this area, acknowledging their enduring connection to this land, and we would like to express our gratitude and respect for their historical and ongoing stewardship of these lands.
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My uncle Ken built a transhipment terminal for Northern Transportation at Tuk in the late 1960s. They used it to transfer goods from their MacKenzie river barges to the Broderick, a WW 2 LST repurposed for supplying the settlements around the Canadian part of the Arctic ocean. I got a chance to visit in 1970, when I was working for the company (If you want me you're going to have to take my nephew too!) I still remember visiting the Broderick, still locked in ice in June, on one of the original Bombardier ice vehicles.
While I was there Ken was asked to prospect for an airstrip on Banks island. This he was good at, since he had been in charge of building the advanced landing grounds for the Canadian army on their way up through France, Belgium, and Holland during WW 2. At one point they were turning them out at the rate of one every 3 weeks. He flew up on a WW 2 vintage C47, piloted by his old friend, the legendary Gordy Latham. Since they had no place to land, Gordy just looked down at the beaches and chose one he thought was good enough. Fortunately he was right.
A good trick on old screws is the biggest electric soldering iron you can get and trim the end so it's not a point but flat and heat the screw for a while and they come easier
Great project, great video, great story! Canadian history we never learned in school - thank you!
Our pleasure!
5:48 I love this so much😂❤ great editing for such a handsome man
The effort this team puts in, is Incredible.... so exciting to see new wood going on.
This and Travels with Geordie with someone living on and maintaining an old wooden Monk give me my pleasant insights as to how our Canadian nautical cousins are doing things right! Keep up the great work 👍🏻
Peter Knowles is great, glad you found us too!
I sure love everything about this channel… the project, the history, the shipwrights, dogs and a soundtrack played on the ships guitar. Brilliant stuff 🙏
Interesting restoration. And it looks like it's in capable hands!
thanks keep up the good work
North Star is my favourite ship. I was lucky to stand on her decks years back at the Victoria boat show. Also, a while back there was a schooner in Cowichan Bay named Favourite. That have anything to do with Favourite Boat Works?
Incredible stuff as always, such an interesting history surrounding the North Star!
Keep it coming ! Thank you
Clearly this boat was floating because it wanted to be afloat, not because physics deemed it so.
Some vessels have a strong will to live!
Brilliant video thank you 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Look forward to seeing her in Tuk harbour again
Would love to see her up there!
As work continues with every episode, it looks like the gods of the north must have smiled on your project to account for the fact that North Star made it to the boatyard afloat on her own bottom! Was she being held together by tradition and the paint and copper bottom? Thanks for continuing with the history and photos of the history of the North Star and her place in the Arctic for trade. Well done, and March on:
Would access to a ship saw have made the frame construction more straightforward? Or would that require access to her original lifting plans or perhaps a traditional half model that could be sawn into slices at every station?
On further thought, I guess today you would laser scann the boat inside and out and get a 3-D point cloud… Get a perfect model adjust for any hogging and slice up in cad for your frame patterns…. But I guess that would not truly reflect the traditional aspects of your restoration. “never mind”😅
We got a large bandsaw shortly after this was filmed and were then able to saw our bevels into the frames. More ribbands were put in and patterns were made.
In Houston they would have fixed with spray foam and wood filler and deck sealer and said she is unsinkable.
Glad we're not in Houston 🤣
Us new visitors to your site have no idea about the origins of this boat and it's age. Can you add some basic history to your info at the top?
On the CZcams channel description?
Hi you mentioned that you are going to use yellow cedar in place of the black locust, would red cedar be a better choice?
Laminated cedar for frames? You guys are professionals and I'm a mere amateur boatwright, but I've never heard of using softwoods for framing traditional boats, except for things like Buehler chine hulls that just use off the shelf fir lumber for the structure.
We are using Yellow Cedar (Cypress).
It was quite commonly to frame boats of the Canadian Pacific fishing fleet.
@@quillgoldman3908 Are there any advantages over white oak? I'd bet it's a good bit lighter.
@@SavingMaverick55 air dried, locally available stock. Doesn’t cause iron sickness…..
Maybe you should try to buy Leo Goolden ,s shipsaw Tally Ho is out of the shed now.
Beats struggling wit a handheld Skisaw an a lot of powerplaning 😅
Get ahold of Leo from the Tallyho's project. I am sure he has a giant band saw he can sell you guys. He has a YT channel.
👍!!!
Will the boat be a replica like Tally Ho, (a reproduction) or will you retain all the good wood?
We will retain as much wood as possible.
What make kilt is the old fella wearing? And how long do they last ? I’m a tugboatman, my Carhartts are good for about a year, more with patchs. On my time off I’m a piper, but I wouldn’t subject my wool uniform kilt to hard labor.
Not sure how long they last, but the brand is "Utilikilt"
@@FavouriteBoatworks I suspected as much. Thank for the reply.
@Pocketfarmer1
Utilikilts workman out of Seattle. 10 oz. duck canvas. Nothing finer. I’ve tried all the “other” work kilts. They don’t last or compare. I’ve worn mine on 5 continents land sea and air. Arabian desert to Siberian winter.
Oh. Longevity.
I wore my first one overseas for two years every day before it disintegrated.
Yes I washed it regularly.
Black locust. Robinia pseudacacia? Here in the UK at was planted here and there in ones and twos by the Victorians. We know it as false acacia. Never knew it was good for anything. I've learned something. The stuff I've seen has always been scrubby and poor in form.
Correct, like mentioned in the video it’s extremely dense and rot resistant, high in silica so it tends to dull tools fast.
Never heard of locust wood , where is that type of tree located ? Must be a hard wood
It grows in many places around the world, from North America to Europe, Australia and Asia. It’s incredibly hard.
I think at this point, The North Start is looking like nothing more than a mold being broken apart for that brand new boat that's being built!
Molting like a crab, a new boat will spring from the old
Wouldn't it be better to have one lecture on the boat's history and just get on with the rehab work? Its getting tiring having history lectures every episode, or that may be the sure way you may never get even half of those who followed Tally Ho and Acorn to Arabella.
Of course this is only my opinion.
Personally I like the technical/historical information tucked into the video.
Agree - it makes for a nice balance having both
We intend to make education and history a large part of this channel, not only about North Star but other vessels, historical events, etc.
Damn man just enjoy the content
One of my favorite up and coming channels
Thank you!!
Never heard of locust wood , where is that type of tree located ? Must be a hard wood
Extremely hard and rot resistant, grows all over the world from the Americas to Asia, Australia etc..