Grinding Away & Making A Mess - Episode 237 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

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We’ve got our diesel fuel tanks for this DIY wooden sailboat. We reclaimed them from a boat that was being decommissioned a couple of years ago. Grandpa gives them a good cleaning in the driveway before we start to install them.

Meanwhile, Joe “the Machinist” puts more than a sparkle on the reclaimed bronze hardware from Victoria that will be used for the rudder assembly. Pintles and gudgeons are machined so they will receive plastic washers and bushings—this should decrease movement in the entire assembly. Anything that can reduce movement between fittings will ultimately lead to the whole thing lasting longer in the end.

KP leads volunteers Ross and George as they get the house sides prepared for final installation. This means they’ll need to smooth everything out and prepare the grub for glue.

Steve finishes up the oak rudder to the point he can for now: this week it’s putting in the rest of its lovely tapering shape, putting a couple of coats of finish on there, and cutting a marine propeller aperture we can improve upon when we get the real-life dimensions of the variable pitch propeller in place.

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Acorn to Arabella is a wooden boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur wooden boat builder building a 38′ wooden sailboat in his 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 classic wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY boatbuilding project will continue well past launch, when he and the crew will travel and learn to cruise aboard the handmade wooden boat that they’ve built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.

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