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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 118: Steaming Frames and Lining Off
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 118: Steaming Frames and Lining Off

We get all steamed up and tweak some steam bent white oak frames so they lay more fair with the planking. Measurements are taken off the hull and the shape/location of the cedar planks get determined. It's a whole bunch of hot oak and middle school mathematics. Thanks for watching and if yo...
  • Jul 03, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:09
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 117: We Ran Out of Dry Oak, Now What?
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 117: We Ran Out of Dry Oak, Now What?

In this episode we install some more oak planks, remove the stairs to the second floor so we can keep planking and run out of dry oak for planking stock. Don't worry though, there are many ways to keep moving forward while the recently milled oak cures. If you are interested in some of the or...
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:28
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 116: Steve Launches His First Boat
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 116: Steve Launches His First Boat

This round we re-stock the lumber pile with some glorious white oak, ash and some hickory. Steve designs, builds and launches a quick and dirty pram for fishing adventures on the local brook and Arabella gets some more oak planks added to her hull. It's a jam packed episode, enjoy! ---------...
  • Jun 19, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:21
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 115: Picking Up the Pace
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 115: Picking Up the Pace

In this installment we get some much appreciated assistance and really motor along with the oak planking. With three of us in the shop two could work on Arabella while the third picked timber and made planks. We procure some big ole logs that we were told was walnut but turned out to be ash (still ...
  • Jun 12, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:33
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 114: Getting Back on Track
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 114: Getting Back on Track

After numerous challenges and setbacks we are finally picking up the pace and getting into a solid groove! The replacement planks all go onto the hull quickly and smoothly compared to the other planks. We also have to get a bit inventive so we can hit the same screw holes in the bronze strapping wi...
  • Jun 05, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:59
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 113: Deadeyes and Hanging Planks
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 113: Deadeyes and Hanging Planks

This round we look to the future and start doing a little rigging preparation by roughing out some deadeye blanks. We also keep chugging along with planking, the Alaskan sawmill rig gets some good use as does the 27" thickness planer. The culled cedar planks made some most excellent patterns ...
  • May 29, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:44
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 112: Back to Oak and Other Odd Jobs
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 112: Back to Oak and Other Odd Jobs

In this episode we hit the lowest point yet on the build and remove the cedar planks we worked so hard to install onto Arabella. The oak pile got sorted and inventoried to see if we even have enough oak to plank Arabella with it. The replacement planks are found in the oak stores and are cut from...
  • May 22, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:05
A2A- Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Exploring in the Canoe, No Boat Building!
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A2A- Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Exploring in the Canoe, No Boat Building!

No boat building in this video! Since the Open House got canceled and a birthday party could not occur, Steve spent his 35th birthday doing a little exploring via canoe. There is not even a glimpse of the boatyard or Arabella, just a quiet ride down a tiny brook, getting lost in the marsh, scaring s...
  • May 22, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:36:43
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 111: Putting Cedar to the Test
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 111: Putting Cedar to the Test

This round we dive into some plank repair on the hull and fix the cedar that exploded on us. Talk briefly about a new plank fastener we are using in preparation for installing what Atkin calls the bilge ceiling. We steam in the cedar plank after repair so it hopefully won't erupt into splint...
  • May 15, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:24:09
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 110: Will Our Boat be Water Tight?
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 110: Will Our Boat be Water Tight?

In this installment we continue fitting and hanging some cedar, we discuss why we are planking from the keel to the sheer as well as what we expect the oak to do as it swells after launch. We wrap up with extending the planking rabbet and fastening another plank that gave us a real big surprise! -...
  • May 08, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:17
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 109: Cedar Planks and Butt Blocks
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 109: Cedar Planks and Butt Blocks

In this installment we have a riveting good time attaching a cedar plank to the hull. We then install a pair of black locust butt blocks in Arabella to support the nib ends of the oak stealers. Another cedar plank gets sliced out of the raw board and it's many knots repaired. Finally a notic...
  • May 01, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:53
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 108: The First Cedar on the Boat
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 108: The First Cedar on the Boat

In this installment we continue the battle with the brittle cedar planking and finally manage to get one fastened to the hull. Aaron tries his hand at fitting the stern of a cedar plank while Steve tackles the stem end and preps some black locust for butt-blocks, also Alix shares some big news. --...
  • Apr 24, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:55
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 107: Trouble with Cedar Planking
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 107: Trouble with Cedar Planking

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men... Well, we had quite the plans for the planking party and though we did get some accomplished, in the end they did go 'awry'. Our plan was to continue planking as we were and hoped that we could have a team scarfing planks while two others ...
  • Apr 17, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:28:46
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 106: Stealers and Planking Crew
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 106: Stealers and Planking Crew

As many of you may have deduced, our planned planking party did not go as planned at all. This was for many reasons but mainly due to the outbreak of COVID19 right as people were on their way here. We had planned to take three weeks and get this great crew together and finish planking Arabella. R...
  • Apr 10, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:31:54
A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 105: A Visit From Louis Sauzedde (Tips From a Shipwright)
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A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 105: A Visit From Louis Sauzedde (Tips From a Shipwright)

One of the things we appreciate so much about boatbuilding is that there are so many different ways to do things and so many things to learn. We have worked really hard to teach ourselves what we need to know in order to build Arabella. From studying in books, haunting the Wooden Boat forum and ev...
  • Apr 03, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:55
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 104: The Last Oak Plank!
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 104: The Last Oak Plank!

Steve made the last oak plank! Yes, we know, we've said it before (and might say it again... haha). But we are planning for this to be the last full length oak plank we put on the hull. After setting up our new planer with Joe and Grandpa, while I was in Costa Rica, it was now time to star...
  • Mar 27, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:31:20
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 103: Blacksmithing in Costa Rica: Part 2
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 103: Blacksmithing in Costa Rica: Part 2

We put on this basic blacksmithing course in Costa Rica with the help of our friends and in conjunction with El Astillero Verde with the hopes of making a difference in the community down there. It was a very rewarding trip on many different levels. In this video we are wrapping up that trip. The...
  • Mar 20, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:38
A2A- Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Limited Edition Planking Party T-shirt 2020
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A2A- Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Limited Edition Planking Party T-shirt 2020

As promised, we are starting our planking party today and to celebrate that we are putting out our favorite limited edition tshirt to date! If you enjoy the videos and would like to support in a way where you also get a great gift for yourself or someone you know would enjoy it, this is a great way...
  • Mar 16, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:05
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 102: Blacksmithing in Costa Rica! Part 1
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 102: Blacksmithing in Costa Rica! Part 1

Well, it's finally that time! Our trip to Costa Rica has come. We've been planning on this for a long time. Unfortunately, things didn't pan out for both of us to go. So Steve stayed back to get us ready for our planking party and I travelled down with Jack, Kit, Anne and Andrew t...
  • Mar 13, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:47
A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 101: Pairing an 1800s Thicknesser and a Chrysler Flathead 6
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A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 101: Pairing an 1800s Thicknesser and a Chrysler Flathead 6

Sometimes, pairing vintage machines, is just cool! When we got the 27 inch thicknesser from Ganon and Benjamin a couple months ago, we knew we were going to have to figure out how to pair it with a bomber power source. In the end, everything came together beautifully! We couldn't use the thr...
  • Mar 06, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:27:59
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Acorn to Arabella 2020 Recap – Part 2
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Acorn to Arabella 2020 Recap – Part 2

Part 2 of our recap video! We have gone through so much since the last recap video that we couldn't fit it all into one episode. From figuring out how to build bronze floor timbers, to saying goodbye to Victoria. A new engine to making sawn frames. And finally, starting to plank. It has be...
  • Feb 28, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:03
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Acorn to Arabella 2020 Recap – Part 1
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Acorn to Arabella 2020 Recap – Part 1

Progress is being made on Arabella every day, but that last time we checked in on what we have done up to now was about two and a half years ago. We felt that a recap of the last couple of years, to see all the work that has been done, would be a really fun trip down memory lane while we get ready ...
  • Feb 21, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:28
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 100: Reroofing the Boathouse
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 100: Reroofing the Boathouse

In the last episode, we started to work on getting ready to change the roof on the boathouse. After a visit from the local building inspector a little while ago, we were told that we needed to replace the plastic we have with a membrane that is at least fire retardant. So that's what we did a...
  • Feb 14, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:57
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 99: Getting Ready for a New Roof
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 99: Getting Ready for a New Roof

We have had a lot going on here at the boatyard. With having to revamp the roof due to the new building inspector in town, to getting the new thicknesser up and running, to getting the last oak planks on the boat before we leave for Costa Rica. We manage to get most of that done. In order to acco...
  • Feb 07, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:13
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