You may have watched a version of this video before. I decided to re-package and re-post this video in particular. Why? Some “bonehead” just posted a copyright claim against the original video over the music used. I used “Birth of a Nation” a royalty-free song from Bensound.com with the proper attribution, but the claimant called it by another name.
Important! Please let this video run to the end even if you are not watching and share it to friends and other social media. This will substantially help me battle the YT Bots (and it’s all uphill)!
The problem is that YouTube takes the claim at face value and honors it: Immediately transferring any and all royalty payments to them and stops all payments to the creator (me in this case). I can challenge this but it requires a huge amount of time, red tape and other complications. It’s not worth what little money I might make from the video. I don’t want the claimant to be making any money on my hard work, so I made the original private for now and will pull it down completely after I have this one live,
Aside from adding a rant or two, I’m replacing the original music with some Gawd-awful, shitty, YT music as YT suggests with their guarantee of no possible copyright claims. Yes. I’m pissed off! I’ve read about this happening to other YT creators with multiple claims made by a bunch of jerk-off assholes in third world countries that are getting away with this practice. Some have plastered multiple claims against single creators and then holding the videos “hostage” until the creator pays ransom for the assholes to release the claim.
This goes way beyond the typical social media troll activity. I’m now taking a much closer look at Vimeo as my new platform for posting future videos. Honestly, I really don’t need this shit! YT keeps making life more difficult for creators and keeps making jump through more hoops than ever before. IF they keep this up, I suspect they will start to lose creators if a mass exodus has not already begun.
Oh yeah…….some info about the actual video content:
Note: best viewed in “full screen” mode.
Around 30 years ago and way before I started recording videos, I built this 30’ double ended cutter. This was when I lived on Cape Cod, and before I had my (then) new wooden boat shop built, so this vessel was built outside.
This is a slideshow of pictures I had to scan and so the definition/quality is not the best. I discovered I’m missing many of the photos, mostly the later ones showing the planking of the hull. However, this video will display the progress of the initial build starting from scratch, up to the point of where the planking part of the job began.
Fun Facts: The backbone of the hull (keel, stern, stem, and supporting knees and other timbers) were shaped from 8” x 10” and 8” x 12” beams of Hackmatack grown in Maine. The outside ballast keel was concrete and scrap steel. The frames were 2” x 6” and the floor timbers were 4” x 6”. The side planking (not shown in this video) was 2” x 4” Hackmatack. The auxiliary diesel engine was a single cylinder, 17hp Deutz diesel with a Hurth marine transmission. The mast was a solid, Eastern Spruce tree, debarked, limbed, and shaped.
Here’s the video:
