Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Bonus Content: BIG UPDATE!

We’ve been going for three years straight now. At first we were working full time jobs and building on nights and weekends to support ourselves and pay for the build. Recently the support has been strong enough for us to be able to work full time on the project but we were still held back on how much time we could work due to the amount of energy that goes into editing the videos we put out. This meant we were only working when both of us could be in the boathouse. Considering the videos took a good chunk of a week to edit (for a novice video editor… not bad) that meant we only got to work about two weeks a month.

We’ve been wanting to change this for a long time and we are finally pulling the trigger. We hired on a video editor who will now be part of the team, editing all of our footage. This will free us both to be able to work whenever we choose, which means getting a lot more work done. AND that also means we are going to try to ramp up to doing weekly videos so that you can all see more progress, more often!

However, we are really jumping the gun on this one. We are really tightening up the belt for this and dipping into funds (Ben our editor as well). So we need your help.

A lot of work goes into sharing these videos (build work, but also planning, shooting, producing, editing, etc) but we never want to put them behind a pay wall so that only those able to pay for it can see them. If you find any enjoyment or benefit in the videos we create and share, please consider donating to help keep them coming. And if you can’t support monetarily, consider telling people you think would enjoy these videos so we can grow our presence. Every little bit helps!

If you would like to help via continued support, you can do so per video on Patreon ( http://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella ). You have control over how much you donate per video and can set a cap on how much you donate per month (can be as little as $1).

OR

If you would prefer to make one time donations, you can do so through our website http://www.acorntoarabella.com
You can donate via card or Paypal.

We’ve already got an amazing community and we are sure that we can grow this into something much bigger than it already is. So, thank you very much for all the support!

Alix + Steve
Acorn to Arabella
Journey of a Wooden Boat

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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38′ wooden boat in their backyard: designer William Atkin’s Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel’s gaff rig. These videos follow the journey from tree felling, to lumber milling, to lofting, to the lead keel pour and beyond—sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when they will travel and learn to cruise aboard the boat that they’ve built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.

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