LAUNCHING TALLY HO!

Hello, my name is Leo and I am a boat builder and sailor. A few years ago I bought a very old and quite famous wooden sailboat for the price of 1 dollar and since then I have been rebuilding that boat from KE to the help of many amazing people, so we hope that talio is about to be launched and we are all very excited. I just want to mention that of course there is always a bit of a delay between real life and YouTube videos and the latest videos that I have posted has been an attempt to bridge that gap as much as possible and also communicate what It's really happening in the shipyard in the ship's workshop right now.

I want to apologize because I can't invite everyone to the meeting. launch uh I know some people will be upset about that but unfortunately it's not possible if we have a lot of people showing up here the port will cancel the launch and I'll have a lot of problems to deal with however I really hope this video makes up for it and that you can experience as closely as possible what the launch will be like. We wouldn't be here without you and I am very grateful for all the people who have supported this project and made it possible.

It's been a long time coming, and while there's still a lot to do after the ship is in the water, it's now a huge milestone. I recommend it if you can and if you want. to having a bottle of something nice ready to open as Talho Keel hits the water for the first time in decades and hopefully you can join us in the celebration if all goes well, okay buddy, mine is Mega loose, let me feel the tight, how's that paint? Bailey is doing much better on this side, yeah, yeah, it looks like she's covering pretty well, what are you doing so cozy?

I'm tightening this turnbuckle for the top defeat, yeah, it's just a little late at night, just a little bit of last minute preparation. the details, but yeah, how's yours? Patty, you know I'm doing pretty well there, so it's a night before launch, it's around 10:00 and everyone's been working really hard all day, there's a few people still here, we're just. Wrapping up, I've been doing some fixing up, some last minute painting, I had a lot of people helping out today, I got a lot done and it's been great, we still have a lot to do tomorrow before our scheduled launch time which is 1 :30, it's a bit chaotic.

It is a bit stressing. I'm a little nervous, but above all very excited, so I'll try to go and rest a little and come back early tomorrow and do the last few things right. It's 7:30 on the morning of the launch. uh we have a few hours left to do a lot more work before we can get in the water, but I think we're in good shape to launch later today. We have a lot of work to do between now and 1:00. when the boat is scheduled to be picked up and of course I'm a little nervous because the boat is actually going into the water.

I'm really curious to see how it sits in the water, there's a lot of guesswork and math involved. trying to calculate that and put our ballast in the right place so you know it might be a little bit off but we can adjust it of course. I'm curious to see if we get any leaks, we probably will. It's a wooden boat um and uh, hopefully, if we do it, they'll get busy pretty quickly when the wood swells up a little bit, so I'll see all of that when the boat goes in order, but for now, we've got to put the helm on on going. to put together a lot of rigging stuff we have to put the chain on we have to sand the decks so there's a lot to do this morning really tradition is tradition that all the blue tape stays on yes, but there will be, I'm sure there will be there will be a tape Somewhere, no matter how hard we try, I think this will be for the best.

Come capture this traction, right? Leo, the throat goes towards the F or because he wants me to cut it without excess, yes, the Thro. It's going to go at five, there's going to be a lot of extra because I didn't notice the car until now, let's just look up, yeah, okay, can I start leading? Uh, yeah, okay, do we want to cover? removed from the inside yeah that would be great on the front Scuttle so thank you this is the last break like that that's great thank you gentlemen you guys are working so hard yeah we just like to work and be on our feet.

I don't know if we ended up trying to figure out how to say it, I think it has to be to the right of the end of the letter B, right? Yeah, I mean, there's a lot going on there, yeah, but that's happening more here. Well, how do we get it out? I'll put it out if you're going to have fun, then I can't watch, so someone, what I was going to say, 35, so I think this is the least he's done. I tried to bite, so you know what's up, P, when we get going, you might want to grab one of those cannons we were talking about, poncho, boo, hey buddy, the ride lift is on the way, thanks dad, possibly, just in case, it is a rock, but there it is.

He is headed for the love of God. Oh, look, that's good. I don't like speeches. I just want to thank everyone who has supported this project. A huge thank you to our amazing team. Many of them are here. Many of them are on the ship, many of them are gone and can't be here right now. I want to give you a big round of applause, thank you, and I just want to dedicate this release to Darlene, who we all wish we could have. I've been here, dare you call, hold on, oh my gosh, coming down, you're right on your lines, buddy, yeah, wow, yeah, we're on the water line, yeah, hovering and we're spot on, oh god mine, look at that, think, be still, empty.

That's holy, yeah, that's amazing, yeah, I mean, holy shit, that's great, we're good, well, not a drop in the build, we're floating in our lines, it's as good as we could hope for, something very, Very exciting, I don't know. what to say that whiskey tasted good are we all ready when you are ready? okay B, let's move on when the lights come on around here, let's go to the con Erica, you brought that F here George, good job, idiot. I can't, I can't express that pride of the guys, thanks buddy, thanks for being a part of this, thanks for coming, good buddy, come on, I got it, keep going, someone's got to hold your hand on this.

I'm very proud of you, yes. Not a drop in the bill, it's amazing, I'm surprised, how's your line, huh, wow, maybe just a little condensation? I don't even see the trickle of help, I mean, look at the dust blowing around, there's a little trickle, right? She too Gra. So talho is a floater and I can't even describe how amazing it feels. The launch was a real success. It was a pleasant surprise that the boat sat so well on its lines. Cu. There is a lot of guest work involved in those calculations. We still have a bit of trimming to do but I'm very pleased and of course it was lovely that the build was quite dry.

We now develop a couple of small trickles after a while, but they will stop very soon. so nothing to worry about, all in all it was a really fantastic day, quite nice and beautiful weather and of course after the launch we had a small party on the pier, just some friends, family and the team that worked in the boat and that kind of thing uh and we actually moved the boat to another dock um we didn't want to start the engine right away so we just threw a tip line to a friend and uh we moved to another dock to be out of the way and spent the night on the boat, which was really very special.

It felt really amazing to sleep on the boat and I slept really well and then in the morning I took some beautiful photos as the sun came up. Work there, okay, let's wait, get the game, hey, Mike, keep an eye on everything anywhere, it looks like the ship is going to reach the dock, well up to continue pulling on its bow a little. Are you OK? Yes, that's good, thank you. Look at this real sea wood cheese. oh, thank you all, thank you, it feels really amazing just to be able to look at Talho in the water and feel her floating, feel her moving, the boat was just an object, uh, when it was on land for so long, but now, suddenly, She's a boat, she's got a life and she's already showing her character, she feels stable and safe and really homely and it's just incredible the difference this release makes it's been a long time coming, it was almost seven years ago that I first set up Miré to Tallyho in Oregon and I climbed aboard and started tearing off broken pieces of deck and since then there have been ups and downs, there have been great challenges, really difficult times, there have been a lot of wonderful people, there have been some sad times, some happy times. and many of you have been present for almost the entire trip or at least a good part of it.

There are too many people who are important to this project to thank them individually in a video right now, but if they have been a big part of this project you know who you are and you know how much it means to me now in time I will have many Reflections many thoughts but for now I'm very tired I'm completely exhausted uh I'm elated and devastated so I'm going to try to wrap this up so I can get this video out and post it as soon as possible but I would say the most consistent thing for me throughout this project has been a A deep, profound feeling of gratitude.

I feel very lucky, very grateful to have been able to carry out this project and to have met so many incredible people and to have been supported by so many incredible people in so many different ways. It's really completely mind-blowing. and I really can't believe it, I can't believe we're here, so I know I say it all the time, but thank you so much for being a part of this project, whatever role you played, whether you donated. or you sent me something or you spent some time helping or you've just been watching all the videos and sharing them with your friends.

Everyone who watches these videos is part of a community that has simply emerged organically around these videos. I don't know how it happened, but it's a beautiful thing and it's what makes this project so thanks now I'm going to get some sleep. I hope you enjoyed this video. It's been a wild ride so far and I honestly think we'll make it through. We are just getting started, there are so many exciting things to come, there are so many adventures, there is so much to do on the ship, there are still many other projects in, around and on the ship, it is going to be really exciting, I am really looking forward to telling those stories and I think it's going to get better and better, so thanks for watching so far and let's see what happens next, cheers oh n no oh.