This Boat Rudder is Like Nothing You've Seen Before! S3-E17

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Жыл бұрын

No need for pulleys, cables or bungie cords, this retractable, kick up rudder can be operated with one hand in one simple movement! As work progresses on the sailing tender, for Steve Denette's Arabella, Bob comes up with a simple kick up rudder. Using a re-salvaged tiller and recycled material you won't believe how well it works. In addition to the White Oak cheeks and the Mahogany blade boat builder Bob Emser cast some custom bronze Pintle and Gudgeons and other bronze fitting for the Dinghy Victoria.
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@billywhizz6483 Жыл бұрын

This literally is the art of boat building!

@MikeWest_W Жыл бұрын

I saw diagrams that felt a little like the science of boatbuilding but I’m giving him a pass this one time

@Paul_C Жыл бұрын

@@MikeWest_W indeed it is. Hope he made a spare too. Rudders have a tendency to break at the most inappropriate time. And sure it might be unlikely. Yet the blade...

@alexnelson8 Жыл бұрын

My heart broke a little bit when the mahogany was painted white.

@CoenMiddelweerd Жыл бұрын

This episode could have easily been an hour longer. So much fun to watch! Ingenious design and well built 👏 An elegant rudder for the elegant Victoria.

@drop_dtuned6167 Жыл бұрын

So true. I too was so engaged that I check the episode length, hoping it was longer than usual.

@cliffstevenson5773 Жыл бұрын

What an elegant piece of work. I am thinking how perfectly this little jewel of a tender will enhance Arabella. Top level video pedagogy, as well.

@davidallen9526 Жыл бұрын

Well this episode was one of my favorites. A true example of The Art of Boat Building and a fine example of a combination of trades. Well Done!

@drop_dtuned6167 Жыл бұрын

An episode full of so many skills; casting, machining and metal work, and wood working. All coming together with a big dose of Bob Emser ingenuity. Well done and bravo!

@toddbrown2236 Жыл бұрын

Excellent comment, Drop_D Tuned. Nice to see a fellow guitarist following this channel. Cheers!

@drop_dtuned6167 Жыл бұрын

Thank you @Todd Brown! Keep on pick’n and grin’ng🎸

@TR4zest Жыл бұрын

Also 3D modelling and 3D printing. What a great episode.

@dougs6460 Жыл бұрын

It amazes me. . . an idea in your head, designed onto paper, made into parts, assembled on the boat, and have it actually work! Beautifully done.

@kuma9069 2 ай бұрын

Just as your channel announces: ART at its finest, Skipper! A beautiful job, done in the dreamiest workshop ever. ⚓🙏🌟

@cricciethcastle5077 8 ай бұрын

What a joy to see someone using feet, inches, fractional inches, thou, letter drills, TPI, etc. People who only use metric units don't realise how intuitive, flexible and useful imperial units can be. Some of them think we are idiots stuck in the past. I was lucky to have been raised with both. One of my most useful little books gives a table comparing mm with fractional inches, number and letter drills, etc. As you say, you can move stepwise up the diameters only a few thou at a time using all these different series. My machine tools have leadscrews of 8 TPI, so why would I want to junk them for expensive new machines with metric leadscrews? Or junk my imperial micrometers? Or my BA/ME/Whit/BSF taps and dies? Or my toolroom 6" ruler - by far the clearest ruler I've ever owned.

@donwilliams3626 Жыл бұрын

Nice! Mixed medium precision. Wood, brass, epoxy, each designed and brought together for a nifty solution to a real world need. The flip action of the rudder looks so smooth, efficient, and effective. Bob certainly put his signature on this one. Thanks for sharing.

@nick.caffrey Жыл бұрын

You've gone from fine engineering to pure art! You are a master! That rudder is a superb piece of craftsmanship. We are NOT yet doomed! Thank you!

@matthewmoore6223 Жыл бұрын

I feel like I’m watching the boat version of New Yankee workshop with Norm! Great stuff.

@davidnichols147 Жыл бұрын

Truly, I've raced Lasers and 470's with retracting rudders, yet have never seen one so elegant. Bob, your a joy to watch, simply magnificent piece of quality furniture.

@mistag3860 Жыл бұрын

What a life man! Big ass shed, all the tools, working with bronze, mahogany, oak, adapting, inventing, one-offs...jeez, i bet you dont want to go home. Very nice work btw, top notch.

@andypughtube Жыл бұрын

That's lovely. But I think a bit of threadlock on the pivot screws might be called for. (Also maybe make a couple of spare screws to keep in the boat, as losing one would leave you with a rudder that keeps floating up)

@williamdowns1917 Жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest the same. Last thing Steve will want to do is source one-off fasteners in some distant port.

@user-tu8js4hd8e 9 ай бұрын

Yes!

@grampiangs515 Жыл бұрын

The perfect marriage of form and function. True genius.

@GordDiv Жыл бұрын

An elegant solution (done elegantly) to an old problem

@kenemmes9013 Жыл бұрын

Totally Blown-away, what a elegant design for a kick-up rudder and a dinghy for Arabella.

@pauleohl Жыл бұрын

You designed a clever four bar linkage for the tiller.

@eduardoreolid2072 24 күн бұрын

Dear Bob, when good work, technique, perseverance and the formula for solving situations that for others are irresolvable are combined in a person, the artist emerges. It is legitimate to feel pride of a job well done, which combines a large number of capacities and skills from foundry of bronze to carpentry, receive my most sincere congratulations and the recognition of a sailor at heart. You already have one more subscriber. My best regards Ed

@TheArtofBoatBuilding 24 күн бұрын

Thanks Ed

@mikemckinnis3877 Жыл бұрын

The artistry and passion of exceptional craftsmanship.

@angus3307 Жыл бұрын

Genius. So many skills at play here.

@ArcticSeaCamel Жыл бұрын

You know, there's people that do what they can. And then there's people that do what they want...

@Redeye5978 Жыл бұрын

If you're going to make it make it Beautiful and that you've done Bob

@TimothyBarrymusic Жыл бұрын

Very interesting and intriguing how you solved the problem… Must see TV😂😂👍😎

@bertieb9510 Жыл бұрын

A true masterclass of concept, design and execution. Is there anything you cannot turn your hand to? A real pleasure to watch.

@calebbuswell Жыл бұрын

I have learned alot watching you work. I am impressed.

@michaelc.3812 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful, Robert, beautiful.

@wvonfricken Жыл бұрын

i'm 5 and a half minutes in and this is easily my favorite video from the channel. had to stop and comment. nice work! i wish you would post the geometry of the rudder so i can build one for my pram

@c.a.mcneil7599 Жыл бұрын

Turned out so clean and pretty

@ronaldbrooks3649 Жыл бұрын

I've never built a boat. However, I own land on an isolated lake and desire to build a beautiful sailing dory from local wood. I find your "Art of Boat Building" channel very inspiring. Thank you

@TitoRigatoni Жыл бұрын

16:40 Great job designing it to be taken apart. Not only will that mechanism need to be accessed, the inner faces will need to be cleaned periodically if it's in the water for extended time as Steve plans to do.

@Oneonetwotwos Жыл бұрын

fantastic craftmanship. thanks for the great viewing

@2oqp577 Жыл бұрын

You are a pure craftsman among craftsmen.

@DaveHines1 Жыл бұрын

Ok , I’m well and truly impressed ! Excellent craftsmanship, and a wonderful rudder 😃😃🍻

@rexmyers991 Жыл бұрын

Excellent workmanship. Engineering and artistic concepts merge in perfection. It is beautiful!

@texan2560 Жыл бұрын

You are a true artist! Well done!

@refiii9499 Жыл бұрын

Bob has so many talents! Working with metal may just be his best tho. He really knows how to work with pretty much anything he puts his mind too tho.

@bollesixtynine 7 ай бұрын

What a good idea, thank you!

@tomshourd2601 Жыл бұрын

My goodness, you are an excellent craftmans

@terrulian Жыл бұрын

The most impressive episode yet.

@stuartrharder8057 Жыл бұрын

Tis a privilege to watch you work. Thank you,

@waywardsailor3622 Жыл бұрын

Wow....what a combination of skills.

@AndyUK-Corrival Жыл бұрын

Wow this is such a beautiful piece of work. This is going to one stunning tender.

@dion9146 Жыл бұрын

Excellent solution. Very classy and functional.

@quarlow1215 Жыл бұрын

Heat Tiller is so frickin' cool. I don't know if it's a common thing in sailing dinghies but if it's not you should patent that. And it's beautiful to boot.

@kevinbrianburke Жыл бұрын

Totally an artist!

@jadygascoigne8473 Жыл бұрын

Damn Bob, beautiful work on this one. The tender is really coming together!

@TheKYMB01 11 ай бұрын

Amazing and enjoying to watch. This is art and all done using the Imperial Measurement system.

@aaronpreston47 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful work Bob, Victoria will outlive all of us.

@oldmanrunnerrob 8 ай бұрын

Hi Bob, it was fascinating to watch your process figuring out the linkage for the raisable rudder. I learn a little something from every video! One takeaway I’m applying to my own projects is your habit of drawing things out to scale. Well done, and thanks again for sharing your experiences and talents with us!

@TheArtofBoatBuilding 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

@dannyinaus Жыл бұрын

This will be the first time a boat's tender is better looking and better built than the boat.

@INTELIBUILD Жыл бұрын

Wow !! That is pure genius

@barneygoogle4003 Жыл бұрын

Now that's one very cool retractable rudder! Nice work on that.

@evildogbilly Жыл бұрын

Beautiful as always

@pma7675 Жыл бұрын

Hmmm Silver solder tension connrction> Would be stronger if thraded connection

@112Haribo Жыл бұрын

That's what I thought too, but I looked it up and apparently silver soldering is actually almost as strong as welding when it comes to tensile strength.

@ANCAP_JERICHO941 9 ай бұрын

Excellent work sir! Congratulations

@Phat737 Жыл бұрын

Wow, more beautiful, functional artwork!

@JenkinsBoatWorks Жыл бұрын

Bob, you out did yourself! That was ingenious. I am in hopes that you put a little hole crossways through the bottom pintle so that a cotter pin or small wire ring can be run through to keep the rudder from coming up and out of the gudgeon.

@donsanders9863 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding craftsmanship. And what a novel and brilliant kick up rudder design. I built the 9 foot Steve Redmond “Tetra” featured in Wooden Boat #284 in the Launchings section. I wanted to give it a kick up rudder, and tried a bungee system, but it never worked well. I may have to try this. Btw, I asked Kirby Paints to mix me some green like your catboat, and they sent me a can labeled “Bob Emser Green. 😊

@CharliePNichols Жыл бұрын

SWEET!!!!!!!! Magic! I did one similar to this to replicate a kickup for a Vagabond 14. I did the same process with templates It did work but you added some ART with the old tiller too. BRILLIANT! Nice nice work!

@patrickmcgowen6455 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see a fellow San Luis Yacht Club Staff Commodore following this channel. Beautiful work. I picked up on this channel after following Acorn to Arabella for the last several years!!!

@prankishsquire2663 Жыл бұрын

I'd soften those edges where im going to smash my finger or a sheet. Love the dingy!!! What a rudder, wow

@scottwooster4102 Жыл бұрын

Thar looks great Bob! You are a true craftsman.

@Alexander_Kalugin Жыл бұрын

Very nice job. Beautiful. A lot of time spent. You are very good builder.

@rickdaniel8478 Жыл бұрын

Very beautiful Great craftsmanship

@DonnaChassie Жыл бұрын

That's a Damn Clever rudder!

@tomk1762 Жыл бұрын

Bob, this rudder is amazing! The bronze work looks like jewelry!

@francescosirotti8178 Жыл бұрын

This channel is almost therapeutic!

@thomasduby728 Жыл бұрын

Hi Bob, did you make spare fasteners for the rudder? Those custom parts would be a challenge to make when Arabella is out and about.

@MarcvanExel Жыл бұрын

That is a work of art!

@chrisleggatt3240 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that one, thanks Bob. Also, Its so nice that not an ounce of " manufactured redundancy" is present.

@nooneyouknowhere6148 Жыл бұрын

Pure craftsmanship

@mcc19606 Жыл бұрын

I'm blown away with the science required. Makes my head hurt. Then calms me down, just watching the process. Mike 🇦🇺

@anders2258 Жыл бұрын

potassium dichromate.... I'm guessing that made Gustav Stickley a bit of money. you are an artist. thanks.

@mjmdiver1137 Жыл бұрын

Gustav mostly fumed his oak with ammonia. I don't think he ever used dichromates, but I suppose it is possible he did.

@mitfreundlichengrussen1234 Жыл бұрын

God, do I love the metric system - 1/32 second of an inch... - thanks for the great work!

@matthewmoeller821 Жыл бұрын

At WoodenBoat School an instructor bellowed, “There’s no 32nd’s in boat building!” He wasn’t Bob.

@user-cz1qw3rd2g Жыл бұрын

very hight class work all my respect and admiration guillaume paris

@passinthru4328 Жыл бұрын

Excellent design and execution!

@TheArtofBoatBuilding Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@oletorbergsen6086 Жыл бұрын

Excellent quality, Sir! :-)

@Edivision Жыл бұрын

Masterful craftsmanship. ❤

@dwaynekoblitz6032 Жыл бұрын

This a has to be the absolute most satisfying video ever.

@stevejeffryes5086 Жыл бұрын

The bronze fittings are just beautiful! I was skeptical about the use of silver solder in tension; so I looked up the properties of silver solder and saw that it has a strength of 70 ksi; so, better than structural steel. I am learning a lot from your videos and those from A2A.

@Philjamon Жыл бұрын

Amazing piece of quality workmanship.

@jackdotzman2908 Жыл бұрын

You do beautiful work Robert. Your video’s are most enjoyable to watch. Thank you from Missouri.

@joecioe8566 10 ай бұрын

Great job on the flip up rudder. Your work is amazing. I like the old metal lathe I would bet that it is older than your friend Steve. I really enjoy your videos.

@mrklyles Жыл бұрын

That is a beautiful thing Bob. Kudos for you!

@TheArtofBoatBuilding Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kev!

@paulbosen Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the best episode yet of all your builds!

@aluminium83510 Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍 from France

@robertpirtle3638 Жыл бұрын

I just found your channel. Just to get some tips for my little wood hydroplane I build a couple years ago. But this video here got me . I subscribe to your channel . After seeing your bronze work and building that boat rudder. That’s a lost art .

@johnpeterdean1653 Жыл бұрын

A lovely piece of design, well thought out and beautifully executed....

@refiii9499 Жыл бұрын

That rudder not only looks great but it also is functional! Great job bob!

@davidchapman6308 3 ай бұрын

Great video, very clear and concise and as I am about to undertake a similar Dinghy rudder rebuild myself (1970's CSC Caprice - 15 ft) also very useful in what I will have to do. I will not undertake the retraction mechanism at this stage but will modify the unit somewhat later when I have resources to perform the metal working side of the job. Having worked with wood for much of my 70+ years, I was very interested in learning about the Potasium Dichromate process. Well done and thanks.

@stenjek1 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Emser, You are simply the best. I'm really impressed. You are a true professional. Greetings from The Netherlands

@digrat Жыл бұрын

That's pretty slick.

@Konal1954 Жыл бұрын

I am around your age and I suffer from Atrial fibrillation. Your videos are cure for my heart.

@darbyshaw1514 Жыл бұрын

Pure art, you sir are a master craftsman

@CorwynGC Жыл бұрын

That is a brilliant piece of engineering. Would love to have these on my boat.

@garyregan4871 Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done Bob

@fonhollohan2908 Жыл бұрын

U need to invest in a lathe there Bob, that would become handy for ya, Nice work !!, Bob really is, nice work! as always. You never disappoint my friend, never disappoint. Steve, should be very pleased with the work you've done on this tender. I know I would. Cheers have a good one.

@mattevans-koch9353 Жыл бұрын

Phenomenal Bob. Excellent work. Thank you for this presentation.

@tglackin2411 Жыл бұрын

Well, it is beautiful! Thanks Bob!

@newtonmiller8810 Жыл бұрын

Just incredible, a true piece of art, old and nearly forgotten techniques thoughtfully blended with modern materials to make a multi use item. Thank you again sir for taking us mere mortals on your journey.