RIP my friend 😢😢

I reckon Henry Sinclair the Son of Isabella, had a Ship named after His Grandma, "The Eleanor" + I accepted, He must be a Traitor 😢 that's Why there's no Return to the Plantagenets = King Rex

RIP Jeff

I haven't read all the comments so maybe it's been mentioned already. Both of the links in your description go to some spam website related to online degrees or something. Maybe you should investigate or fix those links.

tonga has his star maps pretty shaw Maui ended up there

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Awwww the website is no more... I really want to build one

The website is not working... Is there another site? Would love to build one.

Fair winds Jeff Spira, sadly I never purchased those boat plans. Just one more story of waiting till tomorrow, and now its to late.

Columbus was not from Italy. He was a Knights Templar in hiding and from Portugal.

God bless his soul, anyone know how to get a plan and the free books after he passed away ?

We made several to go get gold to assist the Venetian bankers and manipulating the bouillon market

How’s the boat holding up all these years later? How long is the boat?

The high prioritization of stability by the majority of power boaters is based on the fear of tipping over, which itself is rooted in the fear of the sea. You’ll never hear any complaints about stability under-way because the engine is running and the sea is at your mercy. But as soon as the motor shuts off, those deeply ingrained fears manifest, and the average boater demands a boat that feels like a pier, no matter the cost. Basically, you shouldn’t get into a flat bottom because of stability, flat bottoms have other greater merits like, efficiency and being able to beach launch due to shallow draft, ease of build. Stability is a pleasant side effect.

What about using wood sealer?

There is a place in Nova Scotia called Sinclairs Island that nobody looks at, my Sinclair ancestors come from the island. It has caves under it

Just buy laminating epoxy resin and thicken it for glueing with fumed silica. Micro balloons are not recommended for glueing as they make the mixture soft and is, therefore, useful for a fairing compound. Silica (for glue) and micro balloons (for fairing) is all you need.

I grew up around Dories, and never knew they were called that in English. I am talking about the Yola Aguadillana, a homemade wooden flat-bottomed boat used around the coastal waters of Puerto Rico, even to visit neighboring islands. They are usually between 12 and 18 footers. It's rate to find one with a console, side or center, and the engines are outboards between 10 and 25hp. Side note: Marine grade plywood is very expensive and very very hard to come by and the boats are usually built by fishermen/wood workers. The end result is a boat that has to be carefully maintained to keep seaworthy. I am in the research stage of building one. I will be using non-marine plywood that I will seal with epoxy BEFORE attaching it to the frame, and afterwards too, of course. As for Jeff Spira, I take it from the comments that he moved on to a better life. To his family and friends, my deepest condolences.

St Brendan the Navigator He is also a patron saint of boatmen, mariners, travelers, elderly adventurers, whales, the United States Navy, and also of portaging canoes.

Really interesting video :) thanks for the history lesson. I didn’t know about this voyage. I live near the folly you spoke of (shared by northern mudlarks channel) It is on the Fife coastal path here in Scotland. This structure was built in 1770ish and it is called “Lady’s Tower” built for Lady Anstruther. She used it as a viewing point and to rest after her regular bathing in the river :) Lots of folly’s in UK especially on wealthy estates, where they would build an ancient looking ruin in their gardens/on their land to mimic the real ancient towers/ruins.

Experts always miss the important part of this narrative. The natives of Greenland etc would visit Northern Britain. It worked both ways. Also Bristol merchants were most likey visiting the North East coast of America in the 1450s. Remember The last European colony survived in Greenland till the early 1400s.

they teach us lies, my poor wasted youth!

can we not get plans anymore ???? :(

There are also accounts of him making it to the azores

This is freaky. I recently learned I am descended from this man.

I have read that Columbus carried a copy of the navigatio with him.

Fascinating

i took a halifax dory off a deserted schooner in lieu of payment. great little boats. i'd row all over boston harbor in that little guy. got years of use out of it. thanks for sharing!

My wife is A:Shiwi (Zuni) and this theory is just that, a theory and nothing else. The A:Shiwi come from the Grand Canyon NOT Japan.

In Alaska flat bottom deep well skiffs are used for catching salmon with 40 ft nets. They have to lay the nets out on the mudflats to catch fish with the tide. They sit out there for a few hours. But man when that tide rolls in they start really pulling in fish.

We know someone was shiping coper from the greatlakes to europe and it verry well could have been sinclare

I agree with a lot of this video. There are tribes in Fiji that have libyan language roots. This all makes sense, but I believe Maui and Rata, the birth of polynesia melanesians, were definitely in the pacific long before polynesians and Micronesians.

Do you have any sources at all? I tried finding this reference to Maui in Papua New Guinea and got nothing.

Well done. Love to see other people who have built Jeff’s boats. You just have to love Jeff’s Dories. I have built the Nova Scotian 17’ and the Key Largo Carolina Dory. Love these boats. In all I have the plans for eight of his boats. Thanks for posting. Guess I will have to make a video too.

First time viewer. Great channel

Maui is our ancestor he his in our whakapapa - we say he is from Ur - working for who you said, also was gold on their agenda?

What is the angle of the side, the ribs ??

Man those kayaks look awesome!

Man you have some awesome craftsmanship skills what a beautiful boat!

Solid shipbuilder, but sadly not the greatest of photographers... thanks all the same.

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Stitch and glue is probably a consequence of 3D software becoming more accessible at a lower cost like Fusion360. This technique reguires a precision shape of the plywood and today with CNC mills it is an easy path from the design to building. But I understand your affinity for frame boats, even in 3D you use frames to create the shape so why not build the boat that way also?

Great project! Bravo!

I'm a Sinclair my grandfather is from scotland

How do I get plans for this boat

Rest in peace Mr spira, thank you for all you have done for the boat building community.

You did not mention the fruits depicted at Rosslyn Chapel which then only grew in America.

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I'm an amateur builder, so I'm interested in why diffrent boats have diffrent shapes (not interested in power boats however) The point of a dory shape is that it is sliperry (narrow bottom, but also very seaworthy.) The narrow ends means they pierce the waves, and the flared sides mean they knock down the waves. And the most important thing about them, they are meant for carrying a lot of weight, e.g. dead fish. The more loaded down they get, the more stable they become.