Al'Tair's Restoration
Email Al'Tair
UPDATE - 10/03/2011 - PART 3
9/21/2010 PART 2
PART 1
11/15/2006
(Ed - This is a story of a Folkboat being restored in the Ukrane, he would like to hcorrespond with us for help in restoring his boat.
I found Your story on the website and decided to tell you my story about my Folkboat. I’m at the very early stages of restoration. I almost rebuilt the hull that was built of a pine-tree wood material.
I’d like to ask for an advice of what kind of materials can be used for inside and outside of the hull that would make it almost impossible to rot in the future. The hull is built of pine, and I plan to sail as in the river as in the sea.
Besides I have many holes in the hull after the old nails and is it better to use some kind of glue (I don’t know what) or to use the thin wood sticks? If You know some interesting addresses of sites tell me please.
I thank You for all information.
Sincerely Yours, Anatoliy.I’d like to share my story about the restoration of Folkboat “Al’tair”. Two years I bought the old partly rot hull of Folkboat.
The story of Folkboat “Al’tair” has been difficult to gather. It was built in 1971. I don’t know how it appeared in Yacht club “Stugna” (Kyiv, Ukraine). The “Al’tair” had many captains who tried to restore but don’t complete it. I began to restore my Folkboat on the sand actually. It was suitable in summer but I had to find the place to continue the restoration during the wintertime. Luckily I was offered a shed in Yacht club ‘Stugna’ (Kyiv) and could work in winter.
The boat was stored in a covered open air shed for many years. The hull had the old varnish that needs removing. The bow was in not bad condition. The transom and the planks on the stern had almost the rot wood. There was no deck; some beams were missing.
At first I took off the rudder.
I took off the old varnish outside.
I decided to change the old bends.
I removed the transom and built the new one using the old as template.
I changed the planks gradually from the keel to the deck one by one from left and right sides. I removed a rot plank; by using it as a template built the new one a bit longer than transom. Then I only fixed planks together.
After rebuilding all the rot planks I glue them together and to the transom.
The inside look of ‘new’ stern of Folkboat “Al’tair”
The upper plank was the last that I rebuilt.
I plan to remove the keel, clean it and re-attach.
Luckily I had a many of the original wood parts of the hull and I used them as a template to complete Folkboat restoration. A lot of the parts were missing or broken and now I’m looking for pictures from all different Folkboat websites in order to restore “Al’tair” in the old Nordic Folkboat style.