Center-piece.

Pathfinder project, Autumn 2022 blog and video.

It’s November 2022, cool and it’s raining lightly which is a lot nicer than yesterday and last night which felt as though the village was being sluiced down with a powerful hose. Yesterday we had to race to get a big outside job done – for the whole of the past month iv’e been cutting back trees and hedges, grubbing Brambles and Nettle root out and yesterday it was time to run everything through an industrial chipper/mulcher. It would have been nice if the bell-end that hired it the day before had actually taken it back to the hire centre on time and filled it as well…….as it happens he did neither and we were still waiting for it 4 hours later as the wind and rain came in……nice one matey !.

The much more creative side of this month is that I had a first go at basic metalwork and I filmed the whole project so once iv’e edited that it will also go with my new Youtube video channel which will run alongside this blog ; hopefully they will start to play out together and with them i’ll try and tell stories in both mediums. This week for instance I found a solution to one problem which is sound recording ; where previously iv’e tried to record voice clips at the computer it’s always failed because my voice sounds even worse than it does directly with the camera. Instead, my new learned trick is to set the camera up in the workshop, film out there as usual and then separate the video and sound files so that I either have just a video clip of me doing something or a voice-over to use with a different clip or photographs.

During the Pathfinder build I tended to get asked two main questions about the build ; one being about the cuddy design and and build, and the other being about the off-center ‘asymmetric’ layout of the middle of the boat – a large part of that being created by the off-center ‘centerboard’. In my previous video segment I filmed and talked about the cuddy design, layout and construction so in this one I cover the middle of the boat.

Thanks for watching.