Thank you.

Hi Craig, we have been lucky to have such generous shipwrights helping us, it has been a privilege, Josefine would have been scrapped without them and the skills we have learnt will make sailing her so much more pleasurable.

Thank you Brian, I think you sum it up quite nicely.

Thank you, we are very pleased you enjoyed the video and welcome to our channel, I hope we continue to keep you entertained.

You are dead right. How many times do we need to0 see a copper nail being fitted.

Thank you Bob, it won’t be for the want of trying!

Thank you Patrick.

Thank you David, you are so right, after 46 years or so living together, we are pretty well intune!

Thanks, we keep telling ourselves that!

Hi Wade, we have recently finished the stern and are very pleased with how it turned out. Looking forward to showing it all in upcoming video. Thanks and hope you enjoy more of our videos.

Welcome Steve and thank you.

Thanks for following Tony and thanks for your support.

Thanks Peter, stay tuned, we hope to get away in next 6 months and will keep the story updated.

Thank you.

Thank you and hopefully you will have the opportunity to see her at sea again soon, we hope to be doing sea trials early next year, then we will be on our way!

Thank you Dwayne, welcome.

Thanks for watching Steve, one of the reasons why we bothered to video our work is because we believe anyone can do this but sometimes might just need a bit of encouragement or perhaps a bit of guidance on how it might be achieved. We were very lucky to find shipwrights like Dominic and Jason prepared to show us the way, we believe there must be others, in fact we wonder if it might not be a good business model. The alternative is that old wooden boats like this become the preserve of the wealthy or get scrapped, you don’t know until you ask! We just wish we were a bit younger, the energy levels are not what they used to be and every joint hurts! 🙂

@@SailingWood I agree totally. At the end it is all about the financial freedom to do it, but talent has to be there and you abviously got it:) Please keep on sharing your video´s with us , who are staying land bound! Cheers from Germany

Getting out of bed at 5.30am on a cold wet winter morning and climbing into our cold, clammy work clothes, was probably the hardest part of the project!😁

I we had the budget we probably would David, but believe me, we think very hard before replacing Josefine's timbers and only the absolutely necessary work is done.

Many thanks, yes, our shipwrights Dominic and Jason and the ship yard T Nielsens are an essential ingredient. Randie and I are in our late 60’s, have a very tight budget and before our shipwrights took us under their wing, we knew absolutely nothing about boat restoration, Randie is a retired care worker for the mentally disabled and I am a retired flying instructor!

Thank you Robin, hope you enjoy the rest and will follow our story. Yes you are right, salt water is actually very good for the boats wood, fresh rainwater is terrible.

Thank you Joseph, it certainly makes it full! 🙂

Many thanks Phillip, glad your onboard. Above and below the waterline are 2 different environments and the one above is the most hostile, Josefines hull below the waterline is in pretty good condition, thankfully! :)

Yeah... I had water to say: best wishes for 'er bottom and the both of us but I can see 🙈 and thought should not confine the wish more but be most extensive with it. Though you as You make it look easy I might have well said knots to the deep blue swell anon.

Hi Toby, Thanks for joining us, we will be making regular video updates from next year, just too busy with boat work at the moment, we are videoing the work but can’t find the time to edit it! Josefine is a Danish built boat, hence the spelling and is pronounced ‘yo - sephine’ rather than ‘jo - sephine’, hope that makes sense. Had not heard of Slobberbone but will now check them out. There is a Danish song about a boat called Josefine written by a friend of ours called Richard Burgess (folk - Doggerland - Anders Ådin, Patrick Wingård & Richard Burgess), that song is based on an original French song also about a boat called Josefine. Not Rock!

Many thanks. From early next year we will be posting regular videos of our experience including, hopefully, sailing her!

Thank you Ronald.

Thank you David.

Many thanks for the encouragement.

Thank you for the encouragement.

Hi Joe, Thank you and welcome. We will be posting regular videos from next year documenting our experience from the beginning so please stay tuned.

Hi John, Thank you for joining us and happy you enjoyed our videos. Early next year we will begin weekly videos sharing our attempts to rescue Josefine from the beginning and with a bit of luck, continuing with sailing Josefine, so please keep wathching.

Hi Graves, Thank you and welcome. We will be posting regular videos from next year documenting our experience from the beginning so please stay tuned.

Thank you Mike, welcome.

Thank you Ed, welcome.

Many thanks Robert.

And we know it David! Randie is also 69 but I keep telling her its all in her mind!

Thanks for watching. I know what you mean, it sometimes feels like that, but believe me, we are doing only what has to be done and in the least expensive way, we couldn’t afford any other way.

Thank you!

Sorry big waist of $

🙂

Thank you.

Hi Brian and thank you for your support and encouragement. For the moment we are just enjoying the fun of sharing our experiences, if it got to the stage where we couldn't afford to keep funding the production of the videos without help, then we might consider some form of crowd funding. We are glad you are on board and hope you will continue to follow us, particularly as we do receive a small amount of funds from advertising revenue if we get enough followers.

Hi Rudolf, check out our next episode when we will bring you the full story before drawing a line under the terrible experience for good!

Hi, thanks for your comments. Yes, we are breasted up alongside a 1900 three masted brig and the metal barge workshop that belongs to the boatyard and which they kindly let us use, it is a very useful workspace. When, for example, working on the hull, making and fitting covering boards or fastening stanchions, we work off steel floating pontoons and we find them very stable. They have been invaluable , saved us a lot of money on dry docking and allowed us to keep the hull safely wet. We can’t do long planking just above the waterline because the end of the plank would end up in the water before being bent up into position although we have managed to do most of it and we can’t do the counter stern because of the overhang, we will go into dry dock to deal with that. The pontoons are brilliant.

Hi John, we will explain all in our next video, its not simple!

Hi Bob, except in the stern, the frames proved to be OK but we have done a lot of replanting, you can see a lot of the rebuild of the stern in part 14 (when we went into dry dock).

Hi Wade, sorry for that, it was caused partly by the way the channel evolved but I can provide a solution by creating another playlist called ‘chronological’ and I will do that very soon, just want get a few more important jobs ticked off then I will sit down and do a proper revision and reorganisation of the site map. Glad you enjoy the production anyway!

Hi, We are going to go back to the beginning and tell the story in a series of new videos so stay tuned, but briefly, whilst we have completely replaced the deck, the ships hull including all her frames, are in good condition. Some jobs proved cheaper to replace than repair, like the stanchions. So far we have kept the budget within sensible limits and our pocket, rebuilding the ship, even if it had been necessary, would have been well out of our reach. More coming!

We just took it a day at a time Jonas, our lovely shipwrights have been the difference and we have had a lot of fun too!🙂

Hi Benedek so would we, had we known! The “expert” surveyor that we employed before buying the boat, told us she was in great condition and ready to sail! We are going to tell that story soon so stay tuned!

@@SailingWood subscribed! Can hardly wait!

Hi Kevin, thanks for your thoughts. I understand what you are looking for but that is not our aim or within our competency. We are first and foremost about entertainment for a boat discerning audience. If we make it more technical, we will loose everyone else! There are plenty of other channels who have obviously slowed down their builds in order to provide what you want, we, on the contrary, are trying to finish building Josefine as soon as possible! Cheers.

Hi Rachael, Thanks for your comment. There are some parts where the vocals are deliberately left as background ‘noise’ only, just enough to know that someone is talking but not necessary to hear the content as it wasn’t important. Artistic interpretation! Overall sound levels should be otherwise balanced but I will investigate.

Hi Brett, we probably did over do it, but it was our first video and made really for friends and family only, we had no idea it would one day be seen by a much wider audience.

Hi again Bob, yes agree, this was our very first video and was produced really as a xmas greeting and update for family and friends, we originally only put it on KZfaq because that was the easiest way to ‘share’ it. We have since learnt, although we still make mistakes and of course can’t please everyone all the time, but we are better I think overall. Cheers.

@@SailingWood yes, some of my early videos were very raw, hahahaha.

Hi, thanks for your comments, we appreciate your view, the truth is, we would love to upload different versions of the video to suit different audiences and different devices but it clearly is not a practical solution, all we can do is put out what we think will be largely and overall enjoyed, for example, we keep ‘iinformative’ bits as simple as possible because unlike yourself, not everyone wants to be primarily informed, we believe most people want to be entertained first, informed second. We do, however, take all comments into consideration when putting together future videos. Thanks.

Have we not proved the contrary? At £100 ($140) per day for dry docking, we have so far saved $56,000 that we didn’t have! The boat is also much better preserved in than out of the water. Of course there is work we can’t complete from the floating pontoons but we will keep that to a necessary minimum.

@@SailingWood What's also proven is the actual condition of the keel beam is not known until it's out of water. Re: Leo & the Tally Ho rebuild, financed entirely by online donations.

@@ajfmusical Leo’s project is very different to ours. There was nothing worth salvaging on Tally Ho so Leo has made a new version using the old one as a template, he couldn’t possibly do that afloat because Tally Ho can’t float until he has built her! We are restoring, replacing only that which is unserviceable. We did, of course, have Josefine carefully surveyed in dry dock before we began so that we knew she was ok below the waterline or at least what work was needed, we could handle. I firmly believe that restoring afloat, working from pontoons is perfectly viable and as I say, we have proved it. I only challenge you on this because I want to provide inspiration, encouragement and possible solutions to anyone like us with a very limited budget not to be put off having a go. The alternative is that old wooden boats become the sole preserve of very wealthy people and that would be a shame. Leo has done brilliantly, but he had all the right ingredients to make a very popular, well supported channel, we don’t, like most people, have the ingredients for that formula. Thankfully, there is more than one way to skin a cat (just realised that is not a very nice proverb) rather than try to fund big, we have gone for cost little (relatively speaking! :)

@@SailingWood There will always be someone telling you that you are doing it wrong, usually by someone with so little, or no experience. I was planning on documenting a rebuild on a Miller Fifer, but cant be arsed with the negative feedback from people sitting on their backsides not getting their own hands dirty, let alone the blood ,sweat and tears. More power to your elbow!

@@SailingWood So true. Wooden ships should not longer be dry docked than 3 or 4 days.

Understood.