Designing the Power Plant - Episode 137 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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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As we continue working on Arabella, we look ahead at starting to figure out the power plant. We got a beautiful new engine from Nanni Diesel last year and now we are back with Brook Streit from Kraft Power to talk about some of the intricacies of getting that diesel engine fit perfectly to our needs.
Now is the time to start thinking about all these things as it will help to have them in mind as we build out the interior. We have an opportunity to work everything into one cohesive idea, as opposed to fitting the engine to a predetermined space. So, we talked about hookups, water intake, through hulls, batteries, etc. This laid the groundwork for us to talk further and come up with a plan down the road for a complete instal Yep! We’ll likely see them in the future to help hook it all up, which we are very much looking forward to.
We also would like to let everyone know about a couple of things.
First of all, we are giving Ben a very much deserved break from video editing next week. He’s been doing a fantastic job for the last year, cranking out great videos week after week and we’d like to give him the same opportunity as us to take a much deserved breather. This means there will be no video next week (November 20th, 2020).
Speaking of vacations, Steve just headed out to the desert to go climbing with a friend and get a much needed break from the work here at Acorn to Arabella. He’ll be back shortly and in the meantime, Alix will be working on getting Victoria’s knees installed as well as fitting lodging knees and short beams.
Finally, if you’d like to help out the project right now, a good way to do that would be to support by getting your very own limited edition Acorn to Arabella tshirt. We currently have a campaign running through Bonfire until the 19th of November 2020. They will ship shortly after that (so they should arrive by the holidays!). The design was drawn by our good friend Scott Ouderkirk from the channel Glass Goat (The Wooden Boat Experience) [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu02y4RfEyiHqjTCaYpeq4w ] and is a drawing of Arabella with her deck framing in.
If you are interested in one of these shirts you may purchase them here:
https://www.bonfire.com/acorn-to-arabella-winter-2020/
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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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Intro Illustrations by Scott Ouderkirk from Glass Goat (The Wooden Boat Experience)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu02y4RfEyiHqjTCaYpeq4w
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