EP3 - Emergency Haul Out in Vancouver!
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During the first leg of the Race to Alaska, a rough crossing of the Juan de Fuca straight resulted in several sprung planks just above the waterline on Argonaut's port side. Today's video covers an emergency haul out to perform a repair that allows me to continue on the adventure, but exposes the state of the planks on the port side of the boat (much of what was already known).
Although the planks wiggled loose during the first leg of #R2AK, the leak went unnoticed sitting at the dock in Victoria. It wasn't until I was underway for several hours that enough water came in through the bow to cause alarm--and resulted in taking on several thousand gallons of water. I ended up calling Victoria Coast Guard to request a vessel assist, and a nearby boat came to help pump out my bilge with an industrial pump.
In a pinch, I was able to schedule a haul out at Shelter Island Marina just south of Vancouver, and was referred to a shipwright, Eric Fisher, to help me perform the repair. Under Eric's guidance, we pulled ice sheathing off the bow covering the rabbet steam of my forward stem, and refastened and recaulked the sprung planks as well as some other work in the area.
Additional repairs included replacing a head gasket on an air intake valve as part of the air start manifold of Argonaut's Gardner 6L3 marine diesel engine, and the valve on the through hole of my Wilcox toilet.
After launching the boat four days later, the main concern of the forward planks had been addressed, and now little to no water ingress takes place underway. Ultimately, I am going to need to replace most of the port side planking in a massive haul out, and it is something I am working on trying to figure out how to do so (financially).
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Anyone else here from Tally Ho?
We are currently cruising together! More to come!
Glad you're linked up w/ TallyHo! Both lovely boats - I don't envy you the agonies of all this woodworking. Nicely done!
Yep!
lol…. Yeah
Yep
Great to see Pete again, He's the man for the job!
Amazing to see Pete again!
That cameo made me smile!
@@MikeWest_Wlooked for no feet Pete. Couldn’t find him.
@@timdrain4027 9:45
@@snnw0that is him right?
Jip, sure is
This video should be required watching for anyone considering an old wooden boat 👍
I had four wooden boats from 18' to 27'. Restored the top sides and cracked ribs. That was during the 1970's and I wish I could still get my hands dirty doing more repairs.
Many of us met Pete when he joined the "Tally Ho" crew. He's an awesome guy!
You will surely be seeing soon, some more of us coming over from following a certain "Very Old, and Quite Famous wooden sailing boat" rebuild project.
Glad to have found you. And your lovely old boat!
Thanks! I appreciate that support.
@@MV_Argonaut "My name is Leo and after rebuilding famous sailing vessel Tally Ho over 7 years and sailing her over last summer, with the help of a lot of amazing people we found another boat whose owner was about to get his feet wet. As we have a lot of experience as a team now I hope that we can do the necessary repairs to this lovely old boat quick and efficient. Are you ready team?" In the background 3 fine lads stand ready, everyone with a brand new chainsaw in his hands....
What a beautiful historic boat😊
Thank you!
Great to see Pete..sorry to see him leave Tally Ho...But a good ship-wright is always in demand.
So also here from Tally Ho. But now a fan of you Nick. First a fellow Canadian? Second supporting R2K Third a friend of Tally Ho. Then you know Pete, I miss Pete. Finally I really like how you present yourself. Glad I caught this.
Hi Thomas! Thanks for your note. Hoping to push a lot more videos out soon!
Truly a floating museum.
Thank you for being the caretaker of this vessel and her history.
Hearing that engine is like hearing history. Nothing sounds like that these days.
Seeing you maintain lumber that is 100 years into service so your home remains afloat-very cool and not something many would choose theses days.
Thanks for sharing.
That's crazy alright. I've actually been all through this boat way back... I guess 22 years back now.. beautiful ol girl. I live aboard my 1925 44 foot hoffar here in Campbell River. Nice to see this boat still going. Good work!
Very cool! I may be passing through Campbell River Around the 25th
@MV_Argonaut I will keep an eye open. If I see you I'll run out for a picture in my boston whaler. When I got to tour your boat it was in a place called cedar here on Vancouver island at boat harbor. They have an awesome shipyard there (or did) and your boat was getting a ton of love. I've lived in a 1936 wooden boat 14 years and now my 1925 44 foot hoffar for 14 also. But living aboard a boat for 37 of my 39 years alive. No turning back now. Who would want to anyway eh
You need BILGE ALARMS in all major compartments !!! Very simple to install and necessary in all boats . Especially old wooden boats ....
Glad to see you got everything repaired before morning!
Nice to see Pete again. Great guy.
The best!
It takes a committed owner to keep up with the maintenance and repairs on an old wooden boat like Argonaut 2,it’s a relief knowing she’s in good hands.
Thanks. This boat needs a bit more help than I can do on my own but there a lot of potential
What are you doing, Pete? Happy to find you via TH. Happy to tag along.
Very interesting. The remark about the boat having a soul is telling.
You called the right man for the job. Pete is fantastic!
What a beautiful little ship the Argonaut II is. Great to see that you preserve historic Boats.
Many thanks!
Fascinating. This Old House meets This Old Boat. A tour of a boat building company would make a great series.
we know who the famous boat meet up is now , imported shipwrights what a pleasure you have knowing they’re close by
😊😊😊😊😊
Just did a haul out on my boat. Your determination is 10/10. Subscriber now.
Thank you!
Excellent job, well done. Really good to see that Argonaut II is being so well cared for. I'm in awe of anyone who takes on the immense challenge of keeping these boats going. I look forward to seeing future installments and, watching this from Dubai in mid summer, the beautiful PNW scenery. Thanks for putting together such a good video.
Thank you so much for your support, I appreciate that! I am excited to try and put more up shortly.
Very lucky to have a wood boat shipwright available❤
permatex and anti-seize when really need to have reminders of your work all over your clothes. Glad everything got sorted.
Yes, I’ve learned that the hard way!
It's worse than stripper glitter.
I am genuinely impressed by how much hard work you can crank through. I had a mild panic attack when you showed all the rotten wood at 9:41. The end result looks fresh and the boat looks as beautiful as ever though! 🙌🚢
Haha second thoughts on coming out? The rotten wood needs to all be replaced - a huge project that I need to find a way to finance (hey CZcams!).
Nice to see a knowledgeable sailor. Lots of upkeep on an old wooden boat.
Yes indeed!
I have never seen that truck with gasket material and a ball peen hammer; BRILLIANT
It works!
Glad the CZcams algorithms brought me to your channel. Excited to follow your journey.
Welcome aboard!
Great to see her again...spent wonderful times with Julian and Jeanette in Argonaut II when we would meet up afloat away back in the 80s.
Fun! I’ve heard quite a bit about Julian!
If you run into ex-Seaspan skipper Barry Farrell in the 1927 double-ender Townley Isle at Maple Bay YC, he knew Julian well and can probably tell you more.
You really have a great attitude in your videos. Very excellent. Jim
Hi Jim, thank you! It’s a pleasure to be out on the water and look forward to sharing this boat with everyone.
@@MV_Argonaut Show more of Pete working, we like Pete. Please
Looks like we missed you! We're doing a full restoration/rebuild of North Star of Herschel Island just down the yard! Come visit next time you're here!
Wow beautiful boat - would loved to have stopped by to take a look. Sorry I missed you!
@@MV_Argonaut NEx ttime!
🎉🎉 21:49 @@FavouriteBoatworks
I "almost" surveyed Argonaut II over a decade ago.
She is beautiful alright.
An old trick is to hook-up a "Y' valve on your engine cold water intake with a hose laying in the bilge, if you get a serious leak you turn the valve so the engine suck the water that is in the bilge instead of the water from the ocean. Of course with a keel cooler it depends on your set-up.
Cheers,
a.
Thanks - unfortunately I’m freshwater cooled with a keel cooler but that’s an interesting setup. I do have a way to pump my keel coolers overboard so it would be easy to put an intake valve in the bilge as an option
Just finished reading the curve of time, and you’re living that book in real life! Glad I stumbled onto your channel. I love all things B.C. and am excited to follow your adventures!
That’s on my summer reading list! And the book is currently circulating around the crew I have aboard. I look forward to the read!
Great old boat. Nice to see you have the time and resources to keep her going.
Thanks 👍
I can’t even be bothered to wax my fiberglass boat. I do respect that people keep these pieces of art afloat though. I’m glad he found a shipwright as I would suspect the are few and far between.
Those are great inexpensive rechargeable headlights. I work in attics and use them everyday. I can get about three hours out of a full charge and they are some of the brightest lightweight headlights you can get anywhere. I purchased several pairs and rotate them daily and recharge every night. Way better than replacing 3a batteries every couple of hours. Paid for themselves in a week.
Haha yes they are, my system is less organized as I keep them in spots all over the boat, and if one dies I plug it in and go find another. You would think you only need one headlight but I don’t think I’ve ever had too many…
I had to help my dad rebuild the head on his boat as he had his arm in a cast and of course the only way someone knows the head is broken is right after using it😢
So that is what Pete was doing...
I watched this video last night on the boat anchored in Cordodero islands. Headed out early to Port McNeill today. Blew my mind when I saw the same boat pull into the marina next marina over a couple hours later! I tried to go over and say hi, but was thwarted by the locked gate. Have a great cruise. If you see the Snapdragon out there give us a call on the VHF.
I see Leo's next team project here
That view down under the turn of the bilge, when the garboard was being worked on, reminds me of when I had to work on my old (1917) ketch. She came from South Australia, and the planks underwater were Jarrah, a very stable timber from Western Australia. The topsides were New Zealand Kauri. Both of these Timbers are no longer available here.😊
Yes from Tally Ho. Finally caught up with Argonaut. Looks like more fun. Thanks
Wow what a great boat a sprung plank will do it ! Nice gasket making expertise!
Thank you!
An old Fishermans definition of a boat 'Something that makes a hole in water to pour money into'. Pretty accurate I would say. Great to see Pete again.
It sure is! I’m in a constant internal debate on how much it really takes, but I think Argonaut is worth its investment for its history and beauty. I hope to be sharing more about its history soon!
Boat stands for Break out another Thousand.😅
Great to see Pete! Love your Gardner by the way!
Nice boat beautiful
Thank you!
"The only thing I see is a sprung plank"😂
Cool old boat 👍
Get her to Port Townsend and let Sampson Boat Co. work on her. Their shop is not too busy this summer.
No good, their staff are away for the Summer on Tally Ho
I just watched your meet up with that famous boat and crew and the algorithm brought up this video, so I am a now a subscriber! Great to see Pete at work too!
Welcome aboard!
Same here with the algorithm. I went searching Marine Traffic for an AIS signal for Argonaut II after seeing the meet up with that "really old and quite famous sailing boat". No luck.
I love old wooden boats! Thank you for saving it! Have you ever heard of the Flying Gull? It was my father's boat.
Nice quick work i spent 22 years part time helpinga friend with his 104' 1943 army rescue vessel called the Fantasea. Before 1980 it was the Magnifico. The stories i could tell of working on that. And moving it around so cal.
When you say the flywheel was slinging water. Need to think about perhaps modifying a scoop to allow water slung if you are taking onwater thrua hose or duct and overboard. I have never seen your gardner engine set up. . I had plans on cheap automotive hub and bearing assemblies belt driven on the 6-71s that just spun with the engine and a dry impeller and pump housing no carbon seals as any time waterin the engine room bilge would happen. These were ready for it. We had crazy amounts of water in the engine room several times over the 22 years i helped .
Didnt know about the ball peen hammer trick on the gasket, and I do industrial maintenance. Everything we use is electric, or pneumatic mostly though. Great videos, Im really enjoying the channel.
So cool to see Pete again! What a character. I'd love to see more of the work. How much would replacing all the rotten planking cost?
The boat needs a lot of work. More than I can do / afford on my own, so I am trying to figure a way to finance it. In addition to the port side, I need to do about 20 more planks on starboard and 80-100 on port, plus the aft stem which is a complicated piece of wood, especially where all the planks come together on the canoe stern. At about $1k (ish) per plank, it’s more than I can do.
@@MV_Argonaut well I am excited to watch your progress! Don't let it get to you too much! If that particularly famous old sailboat could go from a rotting hulk to her current state Ol' Argonaut will be just fine!
I always wondered what happened to Pete. Leo has never mentioned him after he was gone
Talk to Leo about building some funding. I found Leo on episode 2 and he had no clue how to pay for Tally Ho restoration.
I live just a few km up the Fraser in New Westminster. I’ve cycled by this ship yard many times. Thanks for the look inside at some of the workings of that yard. It always looks like something interesting is going on.
Conversely I helped a friend repaint is sailboat a few summers back, turns out it wasn’t my favorite activity 😅
I agree with you there! But it can be rewarding when all is said and done
Really great and informative video. Amazing you are able to do that in a stessful situation like that.
Thank you!
WELL DONE. What a great yacht. Glad she found you for this stage of her life. May your passion for her burn well and long. Great video as well. Thank you for the brief tour of your yacht.
Thank you so much, I appreciate that feedback. More to come!
Good ol’ Shelter Island. I worked out of that yard (on and off) for around ten years.
I get keeping a boat traditional. However underneath the sheet planking, I would just use epoxy and fiberglass for the base planks. I grew up with planked, oakumed boats and they're a pain in the neck. You haul them out to long, they leak like sieves until the planks swell, all the organic material rots at some time, marine borers love the stuff... You're obviously much more of an original lover than I am. I could have figured that out when you made your gasket, instead of just plopping silicone on it to create one, which is what I would have done. I consider myself competent in maintaining wooden vessels, but you apply real craftsmanship to your vessel.
Everything is a trade off, and I do use modern solutions where it makes sense but part of the fun is keeping things traditional - where everything is fixable, replaceable, and can be redone when mistakes are made.
@MV_Argonaut I have to agree with you there. Big epoxy fan myself, but trying to 'sheath' or hybrid a planked hull is problematic in a host of ways. I WISH you could make a traditionally built boat maintenance free but that is their nature - to require vigilant observation and care to all of her parts with the means to replace any single discrete piece. Not a monolithic assembly like a cold-molded, strip-planked, or glass hull.
I was wondering what you were up to! So fun! Glad you found the water coming in. That’s pretty stressful
It was!
Great video; I’ve been following Leo’s great rebuild channel and saw your meet up with his crew. Glad to catch your channel now and follow your travels. It looks like a lot of work and cost to keep a 100 year old wooden yacht ship shape. Good luck!
Yes, you’re not kidding! It’s fun and feels right to try and keep this boat going, although I’m ever looking for ways to finance it all.
So glad I found your channel. Great content
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks!!
Watching this makes me incredibly anxious, and I'm not sure why? I think it's because you stay incredibly calm and relaxed and just know I'd be a bundle of nerves if all this was happening to me. I'm from the Tally Ho school of boat building / watching. I think I need to watch some more of your videos to understand you better. Cheers.
Lovely old boat
Thanks!
Great video and a beautiful boat!
Many thanks!
great video Nick, sorry the for the need for emergency haul out. sorry we didn't catch up with you and Tally Ho but we did have a great time in the Gulf Islands. Hope to see you soon. Stay Safe.
Thanks, Chris! We made it up to Bella Bella, I’ll stick around here a few weeks before heading south again
Get a good quality tarp and learn how to use it. We have had a boat hit a rock-face, splitting the planks off the stem. A fellow with experience, put 2 x 5lb leads on the corners of the tarp, lowered them at the bow and walked the corners back to mid--ship. Pull the tarp up tight and the water pressure stops the leak. We then steamed 10 hours north to Prince Rupert and the haul out. The Argonaut II is a disaster going somewhere to sink.
Awesome!
Well done...very efficient and solid decision making
Thank you!
Be extremely careful of deadheads in the fraser. with the weakened stem planks. One of the most important areas in a wooden boat is the stem area. Im glad you got a shipwright to refasten the stem with stronger bolts. Because if you hit a deadhead it will literally work any bad nails out. And cause issues. Deadheads are really bad in that area. Especially with the murky water. Anywho. I commend you for owning the Argonaut and persevering through tough times. To me you are living the dream. Owning a classic like that. Best of luck!
Glad you got the major issue taken care of. Have fun with Tally-Ho. I remember Argonaut from childhood on. 62 now so ive been around for a while. Subbing in from Leo's channel. I will be watching intently.
Subscribed. Love wooden boats and came here from The famous wooden boat channel with whom you are meeting shortly.
I own a retired 40 ft wooden troller built in 1972. I'm a competent amateur shipwright and keep my tools and dive gear onboard. I try to be prepared for anything. Lucky for me the boat has a ton of guard wood below the waterline in all the vulnerable places and is pretty tight. The Guerrilla Glue fills the voids pretty well, been there done that. I feel for you, a 100-year-old boat is going to have its share of failures.
your gasket issue: you might try going with annealed copper and spray paint with copper paint, let dry and install. repeat with the paint every time you reinstall your gaskets
You should look up feathering the hull.
You have a sail full of small and large stones, horse hair and other fibers along with sand and clays that you can lower down next to a hole and it all gets stuck up in it.
Its saved a few wooden boats like the endeavor.
Yes! There's even a term for it, "fothering," which I considered trying to throw a tarp over the bow, but at the time my pumps could keep up with the leaks just fine to get me to Shelter Island for the haul out. Wood boats are terrifying.
So glad to have found your channel via Tally Ho. Wonderful wooden boat stuff!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for following along!
Very cool! Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
Great content very educational
Thanks!
Looks like the boat we scuba dived off in the early 80’s
I just found your channel, Ive no idea how it ended up in my suggestions, I’m not a boater like you but I do like older things. I’m amazed but not surprised that a wooden boat over 100 years old is still operational if it’s been maintained. There’s no way a boat built in the 2020’s will still be around and much less operational in 100 years. Gotta love older things that were designed and built to last. When I saw you making a new gasket while doing repairs in the middle of nowhere I knew this guy has a lot of wisdom beyond his years. Now that I found you I’ll check out more videos and learn more about you and your beautiful boat. Thanks. New subscriber here too.
Beautiful boat. Wishing you the best of luck.
Thank you very much!
That reefing hook! BMC TO EMF, I’m the BMC ;)
Where in Vancouver can you haul out a boat? I remember when Denman St. crossed Georgia and ended at Coal Harbor. There were all kinds of marine businesses, etc, there. That was over 50 years ago. And Granville Island has a boat lift. It hasn't been used in decades, and has probably been scrapped and replaced with a Starbucks. So you have a few white glove marinas around False Creek, the heritage boat dock at Kits Point, and then the Vancouver Yacht Club.
Hi William - that must have been a neat experience. A similar situation has unfolded in Seattle, but the traditional wooden boat building remains well and alive up in Port Townsend. I think I’ll be stopping by the heritage boat dock on my way back south in late August!
@@MV_Argonaut There is a big old ferrocement staysail schooner, called "Black Eyes". She has a 6 cylinder Gardner engine like yours. Last I heard she was moored near Bowen Island.
Ohh I'll look out for her on my trip south!
Ironbark is an Australian timber, which grows in country which is fairly arid, so it grows very slowly and is “Hard as Iron”.
A new subscriber followed over from Tally-ho. Nice work.
Welcome aboard!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
I remember shipwright Pete from when he worked on another very old wooden sailing boat that has a CZcams channel.
Looking forward to seeing that vessels sailing adventures from your perspective. As an Aussie I was surprised to hear that some of Argonaut's planking is Ironbark, eucalyptus sideroxylon. Was she built in the Pacific Northwest?
Yes, built in Vancouver and it’s just the ice sheathing at the waterline and the guard that is made of iron bark. I do think most of this sheathing is 1922 original, with sections having been replaced with Purple Heart by more recent owners.
@@MV_Argonaut ice sheathing? Now that's a new concept to an Aussie sailor.
Beautiful boat. I don’t understand having the first reaction of shutting engine off. That is like the last thing I would think to do unless the flywheel was in the water.
Yes - the flywheel was in the water and was cause for kicking up the bilge water all over the engine room. I was concerned for the engine, electronics, etc. and since the engine itself has no electronics associated with it, easy to start back up if needed
I have no desire to ever own a wood boat or even a composite boat after watching these channels. I will stick with boats constructed with aluminum.
Quite possibly the most rational comment on this channel, I don’t blame you.
Just don't own a boat, it's easier!
Fiberglass, Dacron and anodized aluminum for me, my first sailboat was wood ,turned into a real mess.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for your support! I really appreciate it.
Nice boat but I wouldn’t go into deep water with you!😊
Leo has an open bay in PT with a compliment of skilled craftsmen. - just saying
PT is where I typically haul out of…I need to work on a plan to do a more thorough haul out and attack the entirety of the port side of the boat.
That gasket that was replaced looks like it is made of material typically found around a heat source such as exhaust gases. The paper material you used is a temporary fix. You might consider using a more suitable material for more permanent fix.
Yes - was just a temp fix. I was using a soft metal gasket and have since replaced it with a copper and asbestos gasket, which is working well
I’ve hammered out my share of gaskets with a ball-pein hammer but I always feel guilty doing so, especially on bronze; over time I worry that I’m likely to round over the machined edges of whatever fitting I’m trying to gasket. I’d rather tap the gasket material only hard enough to faintly imprint the fitting’s outline and then use gasket punches and other cutters to finish the job. I love your boat; takes me back…
Thanks! And yes, I feel the same way. Sometimes I’m limited with tools that I have on hand that are stowed aboard the boat, but they seem to be working well and the engine has run well since I bought her
This is very interesting. I always thought the ocum was pre impregnated with tar.
Thankyou 😊
Awesome boat!!
Thanks!
@9:54 You wouldnt happen to have videos documenting the prior overhaul would you? I find vintage boat repairs to be fascinating, and yours looks almost like a museum piece.
I don't have a lot of video, but I do have lots of photos. I will try and put together maybe a voiceover walkthrough of the project from last year - 10 weeks, 37 planks, 22 frames and a bunch of smaller projects. I am hoping to potentially do the same project on the port side if I can find a way to finance it this coming year.
Going subscribe to your channel, very interesting, I am model railroader but working with wood is another great hobby , my grandfather was a shipwright in Mouse island Newfoundland , I also follow Leo and TalleyHo, Ship Happens, keep up the great work, I live in Canada
Thanks! I appreciate the support. I am cruising with Leo and his crew right now, you'll see some fun videos in the coming weeks! I grew up making model trains, that's also a fun hobby!
@@MV_Argonaut if you get a break sailing on Mondays
We go live at 7 pm eastern