Did North Star Effect The Cold War? - Saving North Star

Did North Star Effect The Cold War? - Saving North Star - [Ep. 8]

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3 ай бұрын

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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@randallbates8891 25 күн бұрын

I find it amazing what can be done to revive an old rotten wooden boat. Good to see your skill and determination at work

@davidford694 3 ай бұрын

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.

@brianshields7137 3 ай бұрын

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

@Moriah.Jae__ 2 ай бұрын

5:48 I love this so much😂❤ great editing for such a handsome man

@timsecord8207 3 ай бұрын

Great project, great video, great story! Canadian history we never learned in school - thank you!

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@mattkabful 3 ай бұрын

The effort this team puts in, is Incredible.... so exciting to see new wood going on.

@davidantill6949 3 ай бұрын

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 👍🏻

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Peter Knowles is great, glad you found us too!

@christopherlee4152 10 күн бұрын

real deal. nice to watch actual craftsmen work out real fabrication problems.

@FavouriteBoatworks 20 сағат бұрын

Thank you!

@netrhyda8761 3 ай бұрын

Interesting restoration. And it looks like it's in capable hands!

@robertgold2643 2 ай бұрын

I sure love everything about this channel… the project, the history, the shipwrights, dogs and a soundtrack played on the ships guitar. Brilliant stuff 🙏

@BusstterNutt 3 ай бұрын

thanks keep up the good work

@echlinryan 3 ай бұрын

Incredible stuff as always, such an interesting history surrounding the North Star!

@whitneylake2107 3 ай бұрын

Keep it coming ! Thank you

@Mrsnichols1965 3 ай бұрын

Clearly this boat was floating because it wanted to be afloat, not because physics deemed it so.

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Some vessels have a strong will to live!

@davidantill6949 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant video thank you 👍🏻

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@aaapaintingca 3 ай бұрын

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?

@polardiscoball 3 ай бұрын

Look forward to seeing her in Tuk harbour again

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Would love to see her up there!

@shellylozano1052 3 ай бұрын

In Houston they would have fixed with spray foam and wood filler and deck sealer and said she is unsinkable.

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Glad we're not in Houston 🤣

@randolphlee4586 3 ай бұрын

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?

@randolphlee4586 3 ай бұрын

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”😅

@quillgoldman3908 3 ай бұрын

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.

@outlawflyer7868 2 ай бұрын

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.

@richb419 3 ай бұрын

Hi you mentioned that you are going to use yellow cedar in place of the black locust, would red cedar be a better choice?

@austin12ascot 3 ай бұрын

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?

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

On the KZfaq channel description?

@jcgjcg3844 3 ай бұрын

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!

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Molting like a crab, a new boat will spring from the old

@koosstoffels3197 3 ай бұрын

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 😅

@SavingMaverick55 3 ай бұрын

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.

@quillgoldman3908 3 ай бұрын

We are using Yellow Cedar (Cypress). It was quite commonly to frame boats of the Canadian Pacific fishing fleet.

@SavingMaverick55 3 ай бұрын

@@quillgoldman3908 Are there any advantages over white oak? I'd bet it's a good bit lighter.

@quillgoldman3908 3 ай бұрын

@@SavingMaverick55 air dried, locally available stock. Doesn’t cause iron sickness…..

@anemone104 3 ай бұрын

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.

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Correct, like mentioned in the video it’s extremely dense and rot resistant, high in silica so it tends to dull tools fast.

@bryrensexton4618 3 ай бұрын

👍!!!

@austin12ascot 3 ай бұрын

Will the boat be a replica like Tally Ho, (a reproduction) or will you retain all the good wood?

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

We will retain as much wood as possible.

@Pocketfarmer1 3 ай бұрын

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.

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

Not sure how long they last, but the brand is "Utilikilt"

@Pocketfarmer1 3 ай бұрын

@@FavouriteBoatworks I suspected as much. Thank for the reply.

@PropRhouseofcarnage 3 ай бұрын

@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.

@PropRhouseofcarnage 3 ай бұрын

Oh. Longevity. I wore my first one overseas for two years every day before it disintegrated. Yes I washed it regularly.

@joestiller9691 3 ай бұрын

Never heard of locust wood , where is that type of tree located ? Must be a hard wood

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

It grows in many places around the world, from North America to Europe, Australia and Asia. It’s incredibly hard.

@sergueiothonucci1638 27 күн бұрын

😃😃😃

@kunstmol 25 күн бұрын

I sat through Leo replacing every piece of tally ho and replacing it. it was fascinating but sooooo inefficient. I don't think I can watch it again. if this was my boat it would end in a boat shaped bonfire. sorry.

@dingc.velasco6038 3 ай бұрын

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.

@andrewsnow7386 3 ай бұрын

Personally I like the technical/historical information tucked into the video.

@motorv8N 3 ай бұрын

Agree - it makes for a nice balance having both

@FavouriteBoatworks 3 ай бұрын

We intend to make education and history a large part of this channel, not only about North Star but other vessels, historical events, etc.

@sonikboom007 3 ай бұрын

Damn man just enjoy the content