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We're back to planking! We've asked some of our skilled friends to come back and help us get closer to closing up Arabella's hull. We have eight oak planks, a couple of cedar planks, and the black locust sheer strakes remaining for installation. After the ...

We are getting farther up the hull with the planking and as we do so, we are nearing the point at the stern where the propeller shaft will go through. We need to get this hole bored before we plank past it because we are going to need to be able to align ...

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...

After seeing the fore deadwood and the milling in detail, we thought it would be interesting to see another side of these two processes. In this video we show how, where and why we stacked all the lumber from milling. We also get into making the Aft dead...

The deadwood shaped in the last episode is capped with a wormshoe. The wormshoe is a protective sacrificial piece that can be replaced if it is ever damaged from running aground or any similar mishap. We have help from Michael, who drove all the way from...

Loving this 2018 thing. No, this will not be the year we launch Seeker. But this is the year I no longer will have to babysit Oracle databases. :) I'm counting the days, and your support is making it happen. Thank you for coming along for the ride! ...

We finish up the milling with a very exciting drop of one last pine tree and then transition into putting up the boat house. El video doblado en español. Desarrollado por Papercup: https://youtu.be/F7jdFOSPCqE Síguenos en nuestro canal en español: htt...

Steve takes us through the milling process from start to finish. Please visit our website for full project details: http://www.acorntoarabella.com If you would like to help support us, please visit http://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella El video doblado...

In this episode, we talk a bit about how to mill the trees we cut down in the last episodes. El video doblado en español. Desarrollado por Papercup: https://youtu.be/4LE9GGVX2js Síguenos en nuestro canal en español: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh...

A CNC Router is a bit lightweight for aluminum but Acetal aka Delrin turns out to be the perfect match once we got the backlash and calibration adjusted. Our friend Drew printed a couple of propellers using ABS plastic on his 3D printer.