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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 92: Steaming Planks
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 92: Steaming Planks

In the last episode, we broke a plank. No big deal though, as with everything we've come up on in the project, the key is just finding a way forward. So we cut the broken end off of the plank and figured out a way to rig it so that we could steam the en...
  • Dec 13, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:24:04
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 91: We Broke a Plank
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 91: We Broke a Plank

Well... we broke a plank. No worries though. We got it fixed and back on the boat. That's how we roll here... with the punches and not against them. We got a lesson in how far you can push a plank to bend and from now on will know what we can and can'...
  • Dec 06, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:15
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 90: Backhoes, Easy Bake Ovens and Bilge Bands
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 90: Backhoes, Easy Bake Ovens and Bilge Bands

There is always a ton of stuff going on at the same time here. And although some of it is behind the scenes action and not necessarily boatbuilding per se, there is a lot of the project spent working on some really interesting random things! Figuring out...
  • Nov 29, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:58
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 89: Planking Our Boat
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 89: Planking Our Boat

Planking can be a long tedious process, especially when you are gluing up and fastening full length planks. We have gone into much of the details of how we are planking in previous videos, we now want to show some work being done without the interruption ...
  • Nov 22, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:11
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 88: Setting our First Homemade Rivets!
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 88: Setting our First Homemade Rivets!

We made our own 1/4 inch square copper rivets to hang Arabella's planks and we are now to the point where we actually get to use them! This is such an exciting time for us as we have planned and worked so hard to make these. We finally get to see the fru...
  • Nov 15, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:30
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 87: Epoxy Tests
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 87: Epoxy Tests

After our glue failure on the scarf joints for the planks, we also had some glue failure on the graving pieces. This time though, it was with a new and good batch of Resorcinol. So, we were not quite sure what the problem was at first. We later realized ...
  • Nov 08, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:20
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 86: Boring!
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 86: Boring!

Need to drill a big hole?... BORING! That's right, we are final to the point of boring out the stern post for our prop shaft. We were very much looking forward to this set up and seeing how this works. We put together a setup that included a long boring ...
  • Nov 01, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:59
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: SAILCARGO Invasion
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: SAILCARGO Invasion

We'd like your help! We've made some very good friends these past years via the project. A lot of which are doing some very cool things. At the last WoodenBoat Show at Mystic Seaport, we met up with a group of them and hatched a plan. Our friends at SAIL...
  • Oct 28, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:35
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 85: Glue Failure
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 85: Glue Failure

With a project like this, there are always going to be ups and downs. The key is trying to stay up beat and finding a way around the road bumps. We've been greatly slowed down this summer by the work of figuring out the prop shaft assembly which has requi...
  • Oct 25, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:43
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 84: Lining Off and Diminishing Board
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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...
  • Oct 18, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:58
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 83: Riveting Test and Prop Shaft Assembly
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 83: Riveting Test and Prop Shaft Assembly

Sometimes, boatbuilding is all about big showy pieces coming together. But much of the time it is also working with small details. This week, we focus on some of these details that we are going to have to figure out before we move on from the prop shaft ...
  • Oct 11, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:04
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 82: Working on Prop Shaft Fittings
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 82: Working on Prop Shaft Fittings

We are getting farther up the hull with the planking and as we do so, we are nearing the point at the stern where the propeller shaft will go through. We need to get this hole bored before we plank past it because we are going to need to be able to align ...
  • Oct 04, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:22
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 81: Sawn Frames and Cedar Rack
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 81: Sawn Frames and Cedar Rack

Completing Arabella's hull is something we are eagerly striving for. With this installment we cross a milestone in that goal. All of Arabella's frames that can currently go in, are finally installed. Once we have completed the planking process, the last...
  • Sep 27, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:30
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 80: Sawn Frames and Bronze Floors
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 80: Sawn Frames and Bronze Floors

In last week's episode, we went into detail about how we are fabricating the forward sawn floors. From how we are taking measurements using tick sticks and a template to how we are cutting our rolling bevel down the frames without a ship's saw. In this ep...
  • Sep 20, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:39
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 79: Making Sawn Frames
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 79: Making Sawn Frames

We've done steam bent frames for the majority of Arabella, now, in the stem and the stern, it's time to make some sawn frames. Where the bow and stern come in to the centerline timbers, the shape of the hull is fairly sharp. Steam bending frames in these ...
  • Sep 13, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:27:10
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 78: The Last Oak Broad Strakes
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 78: The Last Oak Broad Strakes

Planking has been a very fun challenge though a bit of a challenge it has been. Learning to fit the oak planks to each other has its intricacies. We need to make sure the plank fits well fore and aft but also that the bevels match so that we can put in a...
  • Sep 06, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:24:45
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 77: Sole Beams and Diesel Engine
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 77: Sole Beams and Diesel Engine

With all the bent frames installed in Arabella and all the bronze floors in place, we can now work on installing the sole beams. The sole beams are the members that will span from frame to frame and support the cabin sole inside of Arabella. We are insta...
  • Aug 30, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:24:04
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 76: Pocketless Frame Installation
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 76: Pocketless Frame Installation

One of the great parts of boatbuilding (or maybe the hardest part about learning boatbuilding?!) is that there are many different ways to do things. And they are all correct! Steaming in Arabella's frames is a good example of this. All her framing so far...
  • Aug 23, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:26
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 75: The First Broad Strakes
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 75: The First Broad Strakes

We are learning so much from the planking process. After having cut and installed the garboard planks, we are now on to the first broadstrakes. These next couple of planks are going on right after the garboard and are also oak and need to be pretty sturd...
  • Aug 16, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:29:28
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 74: Installing the Port side Garboard
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 74: Installing the Port side Garboard

It's on to the port side Garboard! We wanted to show a little bit more detail on what goes into installing these big planks. It can be a little bit of a fight to get them to fit just right. This one also had a little imperfection that needed to be dealt...
  • Aug 09, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:26:12
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 73: Fastening the Starboard Garboard
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 73: Fastening the Starboard Garboard

There is a fine art to planking a boat and we certainly are learning that by putting on Arabella's Garboard. This is one of the hardest planks to fit, but that just means it is a perfect test for us to learn the intricacies of planking. Arabella is going ...
  • Aug 02, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:28
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 72: The Garboard Plank
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 72: The Garboard Plank

It is time to start planking Arabella! This moment has been a long time coming and we are thrilled to be able to finally start this process. It does mean a bit of a learning curve though, so we had our friend Thad Danielson come back to the boat yard and...
  • Jul 26, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:49
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 71: Installing the Bronze Strapping
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 71: Installing the Bronze Strapping

Once she is sailing, we are planning on taking Arabella all around the world on adventures and in all kinds of conditions. A bluewater sailboat like her needs to be tough and be able to stand up to all kinds of conditions. Atkin designed her with these c...
  • Jul 19, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:27:35
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 70: What Are Stop Waters?
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 70: What Are Stop Waters?

There are many steps in the boat building process that some people may not know of or think about when picturing the work being done. Most see the centerline timbers going up. Then the frames, the planks, deck, spars, etc. And Boom you have a boat! Ho...
  • Jul 12, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:24:45
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