The BRYNHILDE Restoration
Refit and restoration of a 1958 10m Wooden Bermudian Sloop, designed by Fred Parker
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Winner of the British Marine Media Innovation Award, recognising work in the field of professional marine media.
Our entry was this video series covering the restoration of a 1958 wooden Bermudian Sloop, captured over 2 years, condensed into 33 minutes over a series of 13 videos.
The videos aren’t just covering the refit, they’re a celebration of everyone who was involved. Without the talented team of Shipwrights, Engineers, Electricians, Riggers, and Painters, none of this would be possible.
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As every owner of a traditional wooden boat knows, launching your yacht after a year or so ashore, with timbers drying out and seams opening up, can be a stressful moment.
Berthon are well used to dealing with traditionally constructed timber vessels and some careful planning with auxiliary pumps and plenty of time to allow the vessel to hang in the slings after launch to allow the timber to take up moisture, the seams to plim up and leaks to slow to a trickle are all factored in to launch day.
Fortuitously, in BRYNHILDE’s case, none of our additional precautions were needed, with just a slight trickle of water from a plank seam under the mast making it into the hull. This was easily managed by the bilge pump and will slow over time as the hull planking moisture content increases again and the seams close up.
With the hull watertight and the bilge pump easily able to cope with the small trickle finding it’s way to the bilge, the lifting slings were released and BRYNHILDE moved under the mast crane.
When BRYNHILDE arrived at Berthon she was fitted with an aluminium masthead rig, the original Fred Parker sail plan illustrated a much more elegant fractional rig and Berthon worked with specialist spar builder Collars to manufacture a new hollow spruce mast to the original design.
Traditions die hard among seafarers. Sailors and shipwrights have been putting coins under masts for several thousand years, and still do today. They’ve been found in the mast steps of ancient Roman shipwrecks and Viking long boats. The hope, still, is the offering will bring good luck and safe passage.
In 1877 when Berthon first started operating at Lymington Shipyard it would have been a gold sovereign, but for BRYNHILDE, the owner requested a silver shilling from 1958 was set below the mast before stepping.
Berthon’s in-house rigging team began work stepping the new mast, which was lifted temporarily into position where we could finalise measurements for new wire shrouds, forestay, and backstay. With measurements taken, the mast was lifted out, standing rigging manufactured, the mast dressed and stepped, complete with coin under the heel and the rigging tensioned.
With the mast stepped, the electrical team were busy again, connecting the mast electrics and installing the Raymarine instrumentation.
She was finally beginning to look like a boat again!
www.berthon.co.uk
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Restoration Playlist
• BRYNHILDE Restoration - 1958 Fred Par...
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Project Overview
• Wooden Boat Restoration Project Overv...
PART 1 - Arrival & Inspection
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 1 Arriva...
PART 2 - Exterior Restoration
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 2 Exteri...
PART 3 - New Deck
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 3 New De...
PART 4 - Interior Restoration
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 4 Interi...
PART 5 - Paint and Finishing Touches
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 5 Paint ...
PART 6 - Launch & Stepping her mast
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 6 Launch...
PART 7 - Sea Trials
• Wooden Boat Restoration Part 7 Sea Tr...
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Deck Teaser
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Paint Teaser
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Launch Teaser
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Mast Stepping Teaser
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Sea Trials Teaser
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