Gosh I’d love to follow Lou around and listen to him describe and evaluate every boat on the water in every port in the northeast. I enjoy every posting with Lou talking about his love of life.

Hey Lou, thank you for sharing your many hard-earned, practical insights to wood boat design, construction and repair. Your standards are very high quality and your fearless approach to major repairs and new original designs is fascinating to me. Your video channel has helped to remove much of the mystery surrounding wooden boat construction and hull repairs. Your insightful comments of what may seem obvious to you, are in fact very helpful and instructive to my untrained eye. I share your enthusiasm and love for boats. From your detailed explanations on video of how to identify, deconstruct and proceed with corrections and repairs to wood hull boats has been a lasting inspiration for me and given me the encouragement to delve into D.I.Y. repairs and alterations of my sailboat. There are many other broadcasters of DIY boat hull maintenance and refurbishment, but I find your presentations to be the most helpful. Thank you so very much for enabling me to proceed with confidence to make repairs. The many different boat repair products available today do not come with practical explanations of how to choose the best solution. However, your recommendations of thoughtful and creative solutions never confuse me and are presented in a very practical manner. One example of how you have enlightened me is in your aversion for dust, ...yes saw dust, ...the byproduct of sanding surfaces for shape and finish. I have learned to use hand planes and a router to minimize dust.

Might be the best thing ever to see Lou row some boats and talk for a bit about others projects with enthusiasm. Thanks!

Louis, this episode was a real treat. This was so different from The ones you do inside your shop. Your enthusiasm and knowledge is so infectious I really began to appreciate all the different styles of boats. Heck I don’t even understand a third of the terms you are using but you sure have piqued my interest. Thanks for keeping such good variety on your channel.

Amazing spending time with Louie. Thanks for posting all these videos, Louie. I feel like I’ve been to university after watching you for the last few months. It’s all such valuable info. Thanks for passing down your knowledge. And have taken the time to make it available. With encouragement. I can’t thank you enough, Mate.

It is so cool... to listen to you talk and get so interested in these other boats.. it is so obvious you speak from the heart .. thank you for all you do

Thanks Lou, it's great to see these boats through your eyes, it give me a much greater appreciation for the quality of workmanship that goes into producing these works of art.

I'm 72 and I listen and see your show special when you are building in that boat I follow step-by-step and I decide to go and build a boat soon

Nice to see the Mayflower again. My wife and I visited her when she was built and on display in London, be glad to see her back under sail again

Great to see the Mayflower II again. My father was friend of Stewart Upham and we spent one summer vacation in Brixham watching her being built. I still have an oak "nail" somewhere. Glad to see she is being restored to her former beauty.

Lou could take us on a tour of a supermarket and still make it interesting. Great video Lou thank you.

What a great tour of boats Lou. Thank you. The long boat "Draken" has a full video series of it's build and shake down cruise here on Utube if anyone is interested. Cheers.

So many beautiful wooden boats all in one place make one's heart sing. Thanks for taking us there, Lou, especially people like me who live in a place where virtually every single small boat is either aluminium or GRP. Wish I could get there one day...

I admire the passion you have for boats. Thank you for taking us along.

Welcome back Lou - we thought we had lost you to the commercial world. Maybe now we can look forward to you working on an old boat again. Good luck Lou.

What a great boat Show. And the Mayflower tour was quite impressive. I'm hoping you can return and do an in depth video on the Mayflower refit. I love seeing how things were done hundreds of years ago. The scale of the parts that go into it is mind blowing to me. Keep the videos coming Lou.

Hi Lou. I stopped by your nice shop little over a year ago and shared with you that your videos inspired me and I was in a bad place and your videos helped me. I'm happy to say things are going good health-wise and I hope they are for you as well keep up the good work my friend

How lovely that a master craftsman is so willing to share the years of experience gained by hard work and a love of what you do.If only I was twenty years younger I would beg to be your apprentice for room and board only.keep up the great work, and lots of respect from northern ireland.

Great to hear someone else has a love of workboats. Nothing nicer than big, heavily built boats, big samson posts etc. I always wanted to own an old timber tugboat, used to be a few nice ones around the 40ft size where I grew up. Nice plumb bows, big bevelled stems, big beefy rubbing strakes!

Mystic Seaport is hugely educational and entertaining. My first visit was 30 years ago with my school age daughters. Shortly after that we at least had to buy a canoe. LOL. Soon it is my grandson's turn to visit. He loves tools. We might have to build a pram.

Thames stroke rowing with 90 twist on the return stroke.

Thanks for the tour Lou. You are the best guide for a wooden boat show!

Louis, your enthusiasm is infectious. I hope I can join you at the show next year with my family.

Thank you for the generosity you show in the making of these videos. I learn something every time. NZ fan.

Everything spectacular seems like a dream, thank you.

Lots to see and appreciate. Some well made craft. I see a lot of history there. She rowed well.

Man I'm so grateful I found this channel. You are so talented and your knowledge is unbelievable. I love the show thanks for the videos.

Yeah, you could run for mayor of Mystic and certainly get away with it! Great episode Louis.

I just love hearing your knowledge.... Love to see you do a long show going over they mayflower and talking about the details.. And that viking ship and that and that and that... You would be one to learn from wood you like a cheap employee I'm kinda homeless with to many skills to be this way

Thanks Lou, your knowledge of boats is quite remarkable.

Great episode Lou. Fascinating to hear your knowledge of the boats and timbers used, and your interactions with other craftsmen. Look forward to the next episode. Regards from UK.

Was great to see Lou in person and fun to watch him having so much fun!

I loved seeing all these different boats and hearing about them. One of these days I'd love to get into boat building just once at least

WOW.. Just WOW!!!! I live in Iowa and am jealous of these things out east that you all have at your doorstep. John Deere is interesting but.. WOW.. You guys have it going on. I will definitely be making a trip out to see this. Thanks Lou for sharing this incredible video.

Less than 2 minutes in and I absolutely love this already. It's great seeing other boats and hearing what Louis has to say about 'em.

You start out watching this thinking "oh I'll watch a couple minutes or so", turns out you watch the whole thing.. : )

Lou, thank you for the great tour of the boat show. Lots of beautiful boats. The sport dory will fit right in.

The mayflower is beautiful. I hope you're able to go back and get another tour when she's back in the water, or maybe during the rebuild process. And Holy Cow! that viking boat was awesome

Fantastic, thank you for dragging us along! I must be a sad case in that every night I look forward to sleeping as I think of boat designs while falling asleep every night. Have to admit, love being a sad case. I'd start a focus group to help people like myself except no one would come to the meetings, lol.

I agree with you on the workboat preference. I’ve worked at the Boathouse there for 18 years and my three favorite boats are Emma C. Berry, Breck Marshall (been sailing for years as well), and Nellie.

This was great, you really should do more of these type videos. Louis’s knowledge and passion is awe-inspiring.

Awesome video, I'm building a small 14 foot Carolina dory and seeing how big these boats/ships are I can start to imagine how much work goes into those now.

What! Fun! Thanks for the tour Lou.

Hey Lou! Great show! I was so excited that you got us inside the Mayflower! Can’t wait to show my son what you just showed me! Good camera slinging Halsey; very enjoyable show guys

Thanks for the walk around Lou,that Mayflower is something isn’t it👍😊

there are wedges on both ends of the Trunnels. the inner ended wedge is driven in by the blind end of the hole as the trunnel is driven in..

Caught a glimpse of Nick Schade working on what looks like his Microbootlegger Sport skin-on-frame kayak at the beginning. Thanks for the tour :)

This youtube channel is great!

What a great place to visit, really enjoyed this video. Thanks.

Black Locust has made up a the majority of my firewood for many years, but I never cut it green. I find dead-falls and blow-downs and logging wastes that have been on the ground for 20-30 years. It is amazing how rot resistant the stuff is.

Nice tour Louis. Boats keep our minds and body young, but build experience :)

Lou great show. Thank you for sharing your passion: it's so infectious! Would love to see you do a mini documentary on the Mayflower refit. Fair winds and following seas my friend!

Thanks for sharing guys,you guys make my day no" my week👍👏👏👏

Excellent Lou, Thank you.

Great tour Lou! Thanks for the lessons and everything.

Once again Lou, what a fabulous video, you really make my Fridays and inspire me to make my own first little (10' ) clinker boat. ( you can see it on Facebook ) as I'm included in your friend list, cheers Keith.

Great job Lou very entertaining .

I was unaware of the wooden boat show and visited Mystic the first of July 2018 but missed the show. I will make plans to visit the show in 2019. We had record heat in the 90s and I went north to get away from the heat. I build model boats and went to view the Emma C Berry. I looked at the Nellie while there and would love to make a model of that if I can get some dimensions. Nice design.

Wow, what a brilliant episode

I wish we had something like this in the UK. That was interesting and flew by in no time.

Great little mini tour Lou!

'Loved this episode, so much to see. Please, if you are able, keep us informed on the progress of the Mayflower. It would be good to see how they are getting on but your knowledgeable commentary would add so much more to the experience.

Beautiful tour and loved the Mayflower, I hope you show us another visit. (69 here too, 08/1948) ....13

Thank you so much Louis, loved every minute of it. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya

That was exciting. It's just a shame we don't have such shows where I live!

I feel like I went to the show . Thank you!

Hey if your into working sailboats you gotta check out the Chesapeake bay skipjacks they are beautiful work boats that dredge for oysters they are the last sailpowered work boats in north America. Built here in Maryland

awesome video dude

Very, very impressive 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Wonderful!

Great video!!! Thanks!

Thank you for sharing, it was really enjoyable to watch.

Another excellent video, thank you!

Love this episode Thank you Louis

There is something rather special about a ketch rig in my mind. Shame that there aren't more of them out there.

Holy Moly that Viking ship!

Excellent!

Awesome episode! Thanks.

Looking forward to Chile.

Hope one day you might get to the Hobart wooden boat show in Tasmania. Thanks for the show.

Yes to workboats. A number of years ago an architect and I built a quite expensive house here in Austin Texas, The mandate was to fit the neighborhood and the site using modern, but proven technologies and to be a "lobster boat, not a yacht". Worked out well. That Scandinavian dory like boat at 3:15. Look at the rudder, the stern post is higher than the rudder head, and there's a square hole in the rudder head. I suppose there must be a transverse square bar that fits the hole, probably with tiller lines to control the rudder, but how do you make the bar to rudder joint solid enough? And the rudder's hung at an unusual angle which, if not balanced correctly can make it very difficult to steer. I love Peapod's, and I miss rowing. BTW, nice feather technique on the oars (I noticed it before you explained it). Right hand over left for me. Almost expected you to snap the oars out of the locks, but yeah probably wouldn't do that with a borrowed boat. I've only been to Mystic once, back in 1962 I think, but I remember the Mayflower well, it was in the water then and I scrambled all over it. In the 90's I worked on the rebuild of the Columbus Fleet replicas in Corpus Christi TX. Erm, let's just say it wasn't the best idea to lease the ships and display them in hot humid Texas, then leaving them unprotected in the ship channel where the Santa Maria and Pinta got nailed by a barge and had to be move to a "temporary" drydock pretty much sealed their fate. There was never enough interest or money to fix them correctly, nor did the administration have any idea what it would take to maintain them, let alone repair them. Basta. That's when I went back to school for CS.

Hey Lou where have you been , you OK? Any new projects? Thanks for all the videos

Very cool!

Great Vlog, your knowledge is outstanding. Can’t wait to see the final work on your dory. My only negative comment is that it would have been a good idea to wear a buoyancy aid (personal buoyancy) when you went out for on the water. Need to set a good example!

Lou, I'm sure you know about the Hjemkomst from my hometown of Moorhead, MN. A big Viking ship built on the plains.

Amazingly informative!

ah nice, i have seen the viking ship here back in sweden, think it's norwegian though

I would be like a kid in a candy store at this boat show.. lol Thanks for posting

So original mayflower? Rebuilt in 1957 and now. Thanks Lou.

Thanks for the great footage!

Norwegian fearing I think , I may be wrong but at a guess that's what Id say It was.

Great clip I love boat shows. Wonderful to see the re building of the Mayflower, is it the original ship from the early 1600's or a replica? Google suggests that the Mayflower was probably broken up in Rotherhithe?? I have been to the dock in Plymouth England from where the Mayflower departed with the Pilgrims aboard. Brave people, I have read an account of a settler and his family who were shipwrecked on the New england coast he and his wife survived but all of his children were drowned but they picked themselves up and started a new family some of whose descendants still live there. After re watching I see that this is Mayflower 2 built in 1957. Thanks.

Great episode mate!

Great stuff from Lou here.

Bloody brilliant!! Thank you

totally awesome!!!

awesome boats Louis. thanks

It's like watching a kid in a toystore :)

You should look up the draken harald farhair. Awesome story and some great video at sea.

If you had no access to any other wood except Pinus Radiata to build a boat. How would you protect it from the elements. It might sound like a dumb question, but its a totally renwewable recource and a good wood to work with.