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The Art of Wooden Boat Building - A Dying Skill - The Vokey Family

 

 

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Henry: Well ahh yeah maybe I don't know. But another thing ahh when I was buildin' boats and even when now and years ago ahh I could see things done in a boat in me head before it was started.

Hazel: Oh ok.

Henry: Cause ahh when I build the J and B, I made the model, a half model, one side of the boat and took it apart and took the scale off and marked all the scale on the measurements and that's what I went by, and made the frames the boat was that length. Well on 3 quarter scale I went, when the boat was well from what she is now 50 feet. And I drawed up the sail plan, when the sail was on her there. Drawed all the sale plans like that and sent it to Nova Scotia and they made the sails. Didn't know or see the boat and didn't know how I was going to put it on, made the sails by the plans that I had. And when I got the boat done and put out in the water and put the spares in her that I had marked and everything the length that they was and when she was done and put the spares in and got ready for sails, hauled the bags out of the shed, cause I had the sails about 2 year before they was put on the boat, before the boat was launched. Put em on and everyone fit perfect.

 

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