Building a SAILBOAT in Just 6 Weeks!

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[xylafoxlin]

Be sure to give us all a follow on social media for lots of behind the scenes takes that didn't make the final cut! @xylafoxlin, @clcboats, @nicoisfine, @dmxnlss.pip

[eric]

The Center for Wooden Boats are such good people! I learned to sail with them! You can learn to sail. They teach kids. They teach boatbuilding. They preserve and teach history, and bring old techniques into the future! Their new shop is amazing! They work to make sailing and boats accessible to groups it hasn't been accessible to before! They're truly truly excellent and it's awesome that you've worked with them and passed the boat on to them! Might have just inspired me to renew my pass with them and take Next Thursday out for a sail!

[consaka]

Just a note to all boat builders. If you drill or counter sink for screws after the piece has been painted or epoxied you need to treat that wood that's just been exposed with something to water/weather proof it. If you don't that's where the discolorations and delamination of the finish will start. Linseed oil, epoxy, or varnish will all work but you may never get the screw back out with the epoxy or varnish. Boiled linseed oil and similar finishes will need to be applied regularly.

[walterriblethegreat]

Patiently waiting for this to become a liveaboard sailing channel once Xyla builds her own yacht...

[JamStph]

I worked on fighter jets in the AF, at the first part where you were twisting wires I was thinking that I was going to send you a pair of safety wire pliers. Until I saw that you were already ontop of it. Absolutely love your videos and look forward to the builds. It really makes this old man really happy to see that pure craftsman/womanship is not going to be lost with the younger generation. Cant wait to see what you build next.

[SC-RGX]

So glad she's doing much better now. Glad seeing her energy back.

[UpLateGeek]

When I was a kid, my Dad designed and built a bunch of sailboats, mostly for my brother who was a sailing kid. Most were plywood and fibreglass, much like yours, but he did move on to fibreglass and foam composite. The latter were very fast boats, and did help my brother to be overall winner in at least one season of sailing. But my favourite were the wooden boats, they just looked so good in full clear varnish. It was either the second boat or perhaps they renamed the first one after the first season, but it was called "One Slip" partially after the Pink Floyd song, but also because he made the deck out of too thin plywood, and my brother kept slipping and putting his knee through the deck, so it ended up covered in plywood patches.

Anyway, you did a great job with your boat. I'm certain it will inspire many a young sailor to love the sport, let alone learn how to sail. It was fun watching you build it, even if it wasn't always fun building it for you. But most of all, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[CS_]

This brought tears to my eyes, I built a wooden racing dingy with my Dad when I was 17, some of the best memories of my life just came flooding back. Thank you.
She is beautiful. You should all be proud, WELL DONE! ❤

[johnrobinson]

I loved this video, and all of your videos. I'm an old broke-down and disabled machinist. I'm now unable to make/build things. I get to "make" things vicariously through your vids, well, and the vids of other YouTubers too. I so much enjoy watching your process. When you launched Next Thursday I seemed to get a bunch of dust in my eyes, or perhaps an allergy attack. It wasn't until the video was over till I managed to clear my eyes.

Thanks Xyla, for bringing this old man joy. I'm looking forward to the next mischief you get yourself into.

John

[davidlarson]

Being a retired QE processes have been a big portion of my life. I have watched dozens of CLC project builds. This one is certainly the best. How you bring your education and training into your projects is so gratifying. This makes watching your builds so much fun. Your quirky, off-the-shelf humor adds a lot, too. Thanks for sharing your passion.

[BradinManheim]

Thank you Xyla. This truly brought back memories. In 2008 I bought blue prints for a 11 ft gaff rig boat from a guy in Maine. Over 5 months I built it in my spare time, often with my elderly stroke damaged father. It was a different construction than yours, being a lap straked construction. I had almost none of the tools you had and the most used tool was a hand plane. I always said we sculpted the boat. I learned all about epoxy anxiety, when you mix up too big a batch and it is popping off and hot! My interior was made from tulip poplar lumber and coated with epoxy. The hull was painted with a two part epoxy paint. The interior was left natural and coated with epoxy and marine varnish. The mast, spar, and oars were eastern white pine. We named her "Tulip". Your video has inspired me and I just might make another boat!

[rickee]

Shes like a mini Amazon, as in Swallows and Amazons: White lug sail, centre board, and ever so neat. 😊 Xyla, you're an inspiration to us all and I'm glad to be able to share your videos with my daughters, to show them how unstoppable a girl can be. Thank you!!

[rolfnilsen]

The screws going into the skeg from the inside will penetrate the epoxy barrier and be a source of rot as water gets in there. The Gougon recommendation is to drill an enlarged hole, fill with epoxy and then re-drill for screws once hardened. Gougeon brothers wrote the seminal work for wood and epoxy boat construction. (this goes for all the other screws as well of course)

There are epoxies with UV blockers in the formula to protect against UV degradation of the epoxy. UV from the sun eats epoxy. Even here at 63 degrees North this is an issue, and I re-glassed my CLC Chesapeake 18 three years ago because I messed this up and the glass started to turn yellow before delaminating 🙂


I have never seen a CLC kit go together before. It was really interesting. Those pre-cut joints sure made things easier as there were no need for scarfing, but I wonder how they do when the plywood is stressed a lot as in some of their kayak kits. Perhaps they add a layer of glass on each side when gluing?

[brianwebb]

I just can't believe how much work something like this is! Not only the ship itself but the filming and editing as well. Well done.

[unclejrok]

I'm with you on that, Xyla. Glassing is just as satisfying as pouring epoxy.

Also, love the choice of scoring the video with Biddy Sullivan. One of my favorites.

[jessedennerlein]

Love that. I was a member of the Center for wooden boats for many years when I lived in Seattle. They are such an awesome organization. So glad you built them a boat.

[brianegendorf]

The patience necessary to build half the stuff you make just amazes me. I would always be looking for shortcuts to the point where I'd drive myself and everyone around me crazy..

[johnkemas]

Is this a "Total Boat" project?? Pun intended - LOL!! Many years ago in the 60's when I was in high school I worked for my whole high school career at a marina on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, Best job I ever had!! I even built and restored a wrecked racing hydroplane for my own racing use!! One of my jobs was repairing wooden water craft such as Chris Crafts etc for our dock renters. Remove caulking from the planking, replace it then fill the boat with water to swell the planking so it wouldn't sink when you put it in the river! No epoxy back in those days!! Just marine Spar varnish. I even got the chance to help restore a US WWII plywood PT boat and rebuild it's engines. It got converted into personal cabin cruiser. Fun job and many great memories!! Nice work guys! Xyla, ya got a great heart girl.

[Zachafinackus]

Leo from Sampson Boat Co would likely approve. Jokes aside, this is really cool to see how you can build a boat from a kit like this.

[paulrapp]

Xyla,
Your videos make me smile 😋.
Keep the aspidistra flying!
God bless,
Paul