Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 84: Lining Off and Diminishing Board

While we take a break from the prop shaft assembly to let Joe finish milling the Delrin liner and the other components, we get back to some planking.
As soon as the prop shaft assembly is installed in the stern post, we will be able to hopefully get moving on installing the rest of the planking. In order to get set up for this, we head out to the cedar rack we recently built and sort through the lumber to see what we really have to work with.
As we mentioned in the previous video, cedar can have a significant amount of knots and although many of these are not an issue, they are still to be avoided. Therefore, we still need to determine how many boards we have with minimal knots.
The other aspect of planking we need to tackle is lining off the hull. There are many ways to plank a wooden boat but it is generally accepted that it should also be done in a way that is aesthetically pleasing. In the manner we are doing it, we need to line off in order to figure out how to diminish each plank to fill the different amount of space at stern, midship and bow. If you are a bit lost, no worries, we were too until we got walked through the process, which we will be relaying in this video.

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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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