Chummy Rich: Maine Boat Builder- Dobbs Productions, Bar Harbor,Maine
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2013
- Chummy Rich is a fifth generation boat builder from Bernard, Maine. Like his forebears going back to the 1800's, he is a master of the craft of building wooden boats. In this thirty minute film, Chummy, with his one of a kind Downeast narrative, takes us from lofting to launching as he and his crew from Bass Harbor Boat build the 28 foot wooden cabin cruiser Andromeda. The film was written by Gunner Hansen, with the music scored by Bob Bowman. Narration by Joe Marshall. It was filmed, produced and edited by Dobbs Productions with support from the Tremont Historical Society.
One of the clearest instructional videos I’ve seen on building just the bottom of boat. Thank you so much. Beautiful work.
I spent 10 years building houses, cabinets, trim work, man do I admire wooden boats. I owned a classic Mackenzie dory for a while. We would some summers simply leave out in the backyard and admire the hunter green haul with varnished spruce railing and brass fittings.
Nice boat and a great bunch of people! I know a man in Louisiana with a 3rd grade education that will build you a 45’ cypress shrimp boat and all he needs is a pencil, a long piece of string and a hand saw & sander.I have seen his work and believe me it’s perfect!
I grew up on the Maine coast. My grandfather had a Will Frost, such a beautiful boat.
A cool history for the state as well. To all the family businesses who make our world so special, Thank You. Personal memories of my grandfather's little wooden cabin cruiser that was used to teach us grandkids how to water-ski, or watch fireworks out on the water, and trying to keep it afloat during crazy storms. Thanks for bringing these memories back. Peace.
Gosh he reminds me of my late Dad, another master builder. Great work Sir.
Beautiful boat - lucky person who spent his life doing what he loved and did it well.
What a wonderful job on documenting wooden boat building in Maine. My dad had a great wooden lobster boat operating out of Northeast Harbor in the 60's. Thanks!
I was raised in Kennebunkport living next door to Clark's Boat building shop. Never forget watching Clemmy launching his boats.
I thought I had saved it, but did not. Now found it again and a joy to watch. Thanks for taking the time to make it and share it with those of us who love wooden boats.
Wonderful story. Hope the tradition continues...
What a beautiful film to watch before getting out of bed this morning. An accidental find from the Facebook rabbit hole.
Thank god wooden boats have, and are making a comeback. Things weren't looking too promising for the trade in the 60s and 70s.
Mr. Rich, Respect!! You are a true craftsman and master boat builder! I appreciate your humility, eye and ability to make something beautiful and excellent in a day when many things are just barely good enough!! To make a boat that handles well, easy on fuel, nice lines, and will last a long time shows you have true talent!!
Such a humble man. Nice video thanks.
I like how he says it's not rocket science. That's how you know he's a master boat builder. What a legend.
No he's not a legend. Turns out he's real.
1990 was accepted to attend Landing School of boat building in Kennebunkport. Life issues kept me from actually going. Very disappointing, to understate it...
So I watch videos like this to live the life that would have been, vicariously.
I do work with wood when I can, gotta get the sawdust in my nose, that aroma-- as Chummy said, "[wood] smells better". Nothing like it!
Thank you for this video!
Just enjoyed craftsmen at work a joy to watch
Really enjoyed this, I live in Michigan near where Chris Craft was so I grew up hearing about the shipbuilding in the area in the 1800s, my ancestors were shipbuilders. Love the old wooden boats. Great film.
I worked at Chris Craft and it has nothing on these handcrafted boats...The hulls are fiberglass and everything is prefabricated in the modular shop.
Love the craftsmanship they show.
I wanted to work at Chris Craft in Algonac when they still built wood boats. So I spent two years of my evenings after school during high school building a 16’ wood sailboat. I was hoping to prove I could build wood boats. Unfortunately Chris Craft ceased it’s Algonac, Michigan operations about the time I graduated. I went on to restore many wood boats in my lifetime. Later my boat building days helped me greatly as a building contractor.....Gary in Port Huron, Michigan
Just a mesmerizing video. Thank you so much.
i got choked up when you launched HER. beautiful work.
Wooden boats are like a good meal. You can tell if they were made with Love.
Sure nice to see true craftsman that still have a love for a wood boat and it sure does smell better
Must had been a great Childhood to be able to build your own boat and enjoy using it with your friends !
Such a great story... and we'll done video... I've watched it a few times... just a great way to relax. Wonderful production! Thanks for posting!
Well done. I enjoyed the progam. Always a pleasure to watch craftsmen at work.
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Chummy has retired(yeah right) and sold the business to Rich Helmke who is in this video. I met Chummy back in the late 80's when a guy I was doing work for was looking to have a boat built. Chummy would of been the choice but he had to much in the works at the time. It was to be a wooden lobster style boat but used for pleasure. Boat ended up being built by John's Bay and was decked out with mahogany and the works. She was something special but I'm sure Chummy would of built just as fine or even better of a boat
Fantastic skills that need to be kept alive. Thanks for sharing, good entertainment. Ant, Cid & the Pooch crew.
Absolutely spectacular ! Wonderful craftsmanship from everyone. There’s nothing as beautiful as a wooden boat and nothing skims through the water like a wooden boat. Thank you for sharing with everyone your gift for craftsmanship as you did with this video.
WHAT???
@@kscipkkkk ? Didn’t understand your reply Pat
@@tetreaulthank4068 the boat wasn’t wood!
Thanks for this great video. Our Tahitian local commercial fishing boats are directly inspired by these traditional Maine wooden boats.
Edwin Fare-Bredin, how were the Tahitian peoples first exposed to these boats? I'm interested in any history you may be able to share
Oh man, i wish i worked there. Looks like building boats is one of those jobs that you could easily walk away from because they take an immense amount of time and dedication. great video.
Wooden Boat Builders are True Craftsmen with a passion for what they do.
I began fishing with my father who had at the time built his own boat of southern cypris. We would sink it after use and bail it upon return to fish. What a boat and nothing like a wood boat. Great craftsmanship sir.
You are masters of your craft I bow down to you
Will always be mans most beautiful creations
Oh my God , you guy are wonderful people , all I can say may God bless you all
Really enjoyed this. Well done piece on a great character and his great boats.
Spent a bunch of time in Boothe Bay and love those boats.
Thank you boat gold ❤
Great post, thank you!
Great video!
Thank you for uploading
Beautiful! Love this!
I’m closing in on 70 now and have lived all but about 10 years on the Chesapeake. Our traditional boats here were similar in design to these down east style hulls, but sadly, there are few still built of wood. There’s just something about the way a wood hull glides through the water that’s more pleasing to the senses. These days it’s all about speed. That’s kind of a shame too. Given the cost of quality timber now, the many hours necessary to build with it, and the added maintenance required, few boaters these days will ever know the feel of riding in a high quality wood hull.
Awesome story. Love wood boats. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Heavy, the cost used be about $1,000.00 per foot. But that was in the 1980s. I have only built one wooden boat, cost was not considered, to make the boat was to be the boat. Wood talked to me and for once, I listened. I never had a leak, never a piece to splinter, break, or cost extra after completion. I only keep it two years, I was in the country of Panama and it would cost a fortune to ship to the states, so, l departed boatless. Thank you for this video, it really talked to me!
Top job Mate !!!
Great documentary. real good.
Great Video, Thanks!!!
One thing CZcams has in abundance is guys building wooden boats. From the clued up, skilled practitioner, to the backyard bodger. This vid certainly depicts the former category. A really good watch.
For beauty nothing beats a wooden boat eh.
Great craftsmanship
Great boat's !
Beautiful boat.
Great video.
Great Video i kind of smiled a bit when he says it’s not Rocket Sceince but in reality he not only needs to be a great Craftsman but a exceptional manager and Project Manager to make so many things come together so well that’s the part you ned to be pretty smart for! i’ve owned a Woodie but haven’t been able to build one yet although i have something’s in mind for when the day does come plus i did make my living as a professional Woodworker for over 20 years but was forced into a early retirement due to a unexpected Traumatic Brain Injury
Wood is the best and the most beautiful ❤⛵️🛶⛴️
beautiful boat
Gorgeous
such a nice boat
Nothing rides the waves like a wooden boat.
Piękna praca 💪👍
Beautiful 😘
they don't make them like that anymore, when a handshake was all you needed ! Cheers to a good life !
If I had another start to life this is the trade I would of taken on
Welcome to far harbor! 😉
You don't find many craftsman like that anymore.
She's a beauty.
Wow 👍👍
I love when he says capentar
and boss harba
...why is it always the...."Rocket Scientist"...that says it's not rocket science ?....I could spend the rest of my life laying out a boat on a floor and accomplish absolutely nothing !..Thank you for the work...A.C.Feuerhelm
".....we had to bail quite frequently..."🤣🤣
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Happy to see families involved in a family business especially something that takes an artisan/ builder.
wooden boat is the best I really enjoyed your video I would like to know if u can put fiberglass over the wood do some boat builders do that like if u using marine ply thank u
So what did it cost ?
So beautiful!! but would it look sweet if it was lacquered/varnished so you could see the wood ?
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Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable, not the animal world, rooted and stationary. … The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.” - Arthur Ransome
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Yes Two Shed, I am Rick Mills and as a young man I hated not working on the sea which I did and these people still blow me away
quantos hp tem esse motor que usaram nesse barco?
Rides with her bow up . Will not plain off like a Chesapeake bay deadrise boat
they are two completely different hulls in different design classes. The Chesapeake boats you are talking about are basically a flat planing hull with a small v-forward section. The boat in this film is a displacement hull its not designed to plane but to slice through the water at slower speeds. They are extremely comfortable boats.
@@johngoodell2775 I know how they ride . Just like a cape Dory 28
Real America :)
Instead of buying factory made yatchs, people should buy from these guys. They're likely to give you value for your money. Unfortunately the most water I have seen is the one in the bucket. Never been to the see
" If god would have wanted us to build fiberglass boat, he would have created fiberglass tree."
Não entendi o que falam . Mas o trabalho é bonito.
If I could pick a time to live it would probably be somewhere around 40s early 50s even though I was born in the mid-fifties I really really long for those Early Times things were will a freaking different back then I remember as a kid in the 60s watching the world slowly change and slowly disappear as it once was I can remember certain towns and their buildings disappear historic buildings and things that just weren't considered important just bulldozed and massive tracts of land slowly disappearing to put up stick houses and here's what we got here it is 2020 and getting tighter all the time! I look at these kids building boats right on the beach and putting them in the water I'm sure those were the days where a kid could do that stuff without getting a lot of hassle I mean today you can't even sell a burrito without getting arrested I mean the s*** has hit the fan and I'm glad I'm not living forever
Does he make Sailboats?
So he hadn't built a wooden boat for 25 years prior to this?
Pretty sure they meant lofting a new design.
es un sueño contruir un barco para mi
The boat at 9:52...........is this design still available today ?
this is another similar hull to the one in the video - just different design topside. Glen-L has some versions of these that can be made with plywood.
Someone named their kid Chummy
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Nice old guy, would have enjoyed subtitles to catch all he was saying. My hearing is not the best either.
click on the closed caption box (little box with "CC" in it) just to the left of the video settings button...bottom right of the picture frame. youtube closed captioning ain't the best but it's better than nothing. enjoy. a down east accent can take a bit of getting used to plus when it comes to boatbuilding there's some vocabulary to learn.
@@jgeur We need more people like you in our world!
1608 the first ship built by Europeans in the New World... As most Americans, historians or ordinary people, you just ignore that the Spanish and Portuguese built many of them during the XVI century in South Ameica and Caribbean.
Yawn.....
Nobody ignored anything, the show was about an American boat builder, not a Spanish or Portuguese one, therefore your history is irrelevant to this show.
blahhaha what are you talking about?
the Virginia was the first ship built in what was to become the united states of america. i don't believe he said the new world. also, please provide evidence of shipbuilding by the spanish and portuguese in the new world. i'd be very interested to read about it. thanks.
What was the narrow boat he was talking about that needed little power? Dumbaloe?
Mike Corbett tumblehome
11 minutes 30 seconds or thereabouts
is Chummy a nickname from fish chum?
Might want to include subtitles for Hoosiers like me! Haha, seems like a great craftsman but I can only understand every other word he's saying. Quite the accent.
click on the CC box (closed captioning) in the right hand corner of the picture frame and it might be helpful to have a boatbuilding to english dictionary handy too!
manda o projeto pra mim. obrigado
How does a son in law have the same name as the father in law? Rich?
Hi. Nice video. Can you tell me please. I want to buy new wood boat, but from my previous experience with old wood boats i know: all of them was leaking every spring time or after long seating.what about new boats, new boats also leaking ? Thanks.
It's a great boat. The only thing I would have changed (considering that the whole bottom was painted) is that I would have done two or three layers of fiberglass on the bottom. It would have made it stronger and you know it would never leak. But that's just me and my over protectiveness.
If you put fiberglass over wood that is only for a boat ready for firewood.
Fiberglass over wood will quickly turn your boat into a rotted disaster.
No, it’s your over confidence in your knowledge and intelligence.
what if you made the runners for the floor slip into a aluminum sleeve 2 ft before transom and then the aluminum goes out past the transom and you attach the motor there so the motor pushes the boat from the whole base instead of transom
Brandon Wilson go for it and don't forget to take pictures. Let us know how it works out.
Building a house would bore me
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I did it myself thanks to Woodglut.