Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 30: Deadwood and Some Lead
We’re still waiting on the weather to start warming up but we can still get ourselves as ready as possible for when it does. We start to work with the lumber that will become our deadwood and we shoot a propane tank to help us melt lead into the major divots on the ballast keel.
We also have used this slow time of year to attend some shows and give some talks about what we are doing. We attended the Maine Boatbuilder’s show in Portland ME, gave a talk to the MA chapter of the TSCA, met with R and W ropes (http://rigging.rwrope.com/) and Alix got to visit the Apprenticeshop (http://apprenticeshop.org/) in Rockland to meet with Joao Bentes.
Joao is starting a project called Break the Anchor and is planning on building a traditional Portuguese sardine carrier, sail it across the Atlantic and set up an itinerant seafaring school in Portugal. Check out his site and project at http://breaktheanchor.com/
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