Warren Mangan – The second winner of the Fastnet race, Albert Strange yacht ‘Tally ho’ is currently on the West Coast near Port Townsend in Seguim, in the process of being rebuild by English boat builder and classic yacht sailor Leo Sampson.

Leo Sampson – This episode, I meet the Grandson of Mark Spinks, who Skippered Tally Ho in 1927 when she famously won the Fastnet Race, and continued to run the boat while she was under the ownership of Lord Stalbridge. We take a look at the rest of Tally Ho’s history, and then I travel to Bristol to meet John R-B, who builds replica Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters in the Underfall Yard, and who first took me on as an apprentice when I first started doing wooden boat work. He tells us a little about the history of Pilot Cutters, and talks about why yacht designers return again and again to their classic lines. Finally, I travel back to the US and take a long road-trip from Boston down to south Georgia, to visit Cross Sawmill, where a huge amount of Southern Live Oak (Quercus Virginiana) is being milled for me, to be used as framing stock on Tally Ho back in Washington State. Thanks for watching (and clicking the LIKE button!) Find out about all my other adventures on my website; http://sampsonboat.co.uk/ For sneaky previews of what’s going on in between Episodes, follow my FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/sampsonboatco and INSTAGRAM http://www.instagram.com/sampsonboatco. To read more about what I’m doing, or become a Patron, go to https://www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco

Music

Heftone Banjo Orchestra – Peaceful Henry
Howie Ann Mitchell – Irish Washerwoman
Christian Bjoerklund – Hallon
The Defibulators – Everybody’s Got a Banjo