Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 30: Deadwood and Some Lead
Acorn To Arabella
Steve Denette: The 5th-generation farmer who built the 38ft wooden ketch Arabella from the stumps of his family farm, now pioneering big-wall climbing in Newfoundland.
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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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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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