Big Boat Build Workshop

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Workshop participant during Big Boat Build 2009 Big Boat Build January 2010 participants (l-r) Liam Hegarty, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Michael Ruan, Fachtna O’Sullivan, Dominic Falvey, John Hegarty, Jim Murphy, Eddie Cleary. Pat Tanner & Fachtna O'Sullivan preparing the A K Ilen stern post Pat Tanner shaping a new stern timber, Hegarty's Boatyard, Oldcourt, Co Cork Fachtna O'Sullivan cutting a frame with the late Capt. Terry Clifton looking on (Ilen's skipper, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands) Shipwright Liam Hegarty preparing frame No1 on the Ketch Ilen Traditional shipwright Fachtna O'Sullivan fitting frame No18 Kieran Clancy, a workshop participant, setting up frame No1 (l-r) Fachtna O'Sullivan, John Hegarty & Dermod O'Brien (grand nephew of Capt. Conor O'Brien, first skipper of the Ilen) cutting a frame No18 Kieran Clancy refitting the keelson during Big Boat Build workshop 2009 Fitting of frame No. 1 to the ketch Ilen Captain Gerry Burns leads a new frame towards the good ship Ilen Original Ilen keelson reinstalled, view looking towards the bow Big Boat Build participants fitting the stern post knee Installing a stern post knee in the A K Ilen, Big Boat Build 2009 Preparing stern timber for the A K Ilen restoration New floors for the A K Ilen Shipwright Toby Graystone priming an oak floor Traditional shipwright Liam Hegarty fitting a new oak floor in the Ilen Project leader Gary MacMahon shaping a cut water Shipwright Fachta O'Sullivan creating a frame template Liam Hegarty, Hegarty's Boatyard, fitting frame No.5 Brother Anthony, Forester of Glenstal Abbey, giving a talk on wood Workshop participants installing a new stem on the A K Ilen Ilen restoration, fitting frame No.2 Big Boat Build traditional boat building workshop 2009 Workshop participant shaping a stern component John Hegarty building a 'Hegarty Punt' Transferring a bevel angle Fachtna O'Sullivan & John Hegarty making a pattern from an old oak frame 200 195 180 175 170 160 155 Eugene Pratt, Big Boat Build participant. 145 125 Liam Hegarty, John Hegarty and Fachtna O' Sullivan, shipwrights of Hegarty's Boatyard, West Cork. 115 100 80 60 Christopher Meehan and Ross Kelly using a chain mould 50 First Big Boat Build Workshop Group. 0 Navigational beacon at the entrance to Baltimore Harbour, overlooking the entrance to the Ilen River, home to Hegarty's Boatyard and Big Boat Build Workshops Hegarty's Boatyard, Oldcourt, Skibbereen, West Cork Home to Big Boat Build workshops and some of Ireland's few remaining traditional shiprights.

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Workshop participant during Big Boat Build 2009

 

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The Sailing Ship Ilen

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This project is supported by the West Cork Development Partnership under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013