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Get an exclusive @Surfshark deal! Enter promo code SPEARITANIMAL for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/spearitanimal #boatrefit #digitalnomad #customkitchen #restoration We are finally building out our Galley (Kitchen in Raf Terms 😆)...

Sailing is what I do.

Hi all, Kirstin's parents have been a massive help on the boat! We love spending time with them, and we think they like spending time with us (hopefully)! But, what do they actually think about our crazy plan to live on a sailboat and sail around the wo...

It's a big moment here in the Acorn to Arabella boathouse. We have been steadily working on closing up the hull and now the oak shutters are going in. After these are installed, we will only have six more planks to go. Two cedar strakes will lead up to th...

The gaps in Arabella's planking are getting much smaller... and soon they will be no more. We are pushing hard to close up the hull with Carolyn's help before she moves on. The shutter planks are a pretty exciting part of the build. There are only two o...

May 2018. After being off work for 10 months we have completely run out of money so it’s time for me to go back to work. We get a lot of questions about how we find our adventure so I thought it was time to answer a few questions. This whole adventure...

One of the things we appreciate so much about boatbuilding is that there are so many different ways to do things and so many things to learn. We have worked really hard to teach ourselves what we need to know in order to build Arabella. From studying in ...

Part 2 of our recap video! We have gone through so much since the last recap video that we couldn't fit it all into one episode. From figuring out how to build bronze floor timbers, to saying goodbye to Victoria. A new engine to making sawn frames. And...

Progress is being made on Arabella every day, but that last time we checked in on what we have done up to now was about two and a half years ago. We felt that a recap of the last couple of years, to see all the work that has been done, would be a really f...

One of the great parts of boatbuilding (or maybe the hardest part about learning boatbuilding?!) is that there are many different ways to do things. And they are all correct! Steaming in Arabella's frames is a good example of this. All her framing so far...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Assembling the bow timbers / EP51. Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; http://www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco ----- EPISODE 51. In this episode we finally dry fit the purpleheart bow asse...

Milling our planking stock out of our donated cedar and working on figuring out our bronze floor timbers! Buckle up because there is a lot of information here. A lot goes into this project behind the scenes that we don't talk about. Most of that is the m...