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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 40: Starting on the Bow Assembly!
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 40: Starting on the Bow Assembly!
Yes, we are starting to finally put her together. It's been a long time coming and we have many pieces ready, but we are steps away from bolting things together. That means, we need to drill holes and make sure the bow assembly fits perfectly together. S...
  • Aug 10, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:13
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Wooden Boat Show Mystic Seaport 2018
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Wooden Boat Show Mystic Seaport 2018
We love going to the wooden boat show at Mystic Seaport and wanted to share some of that with you all but it didn't really fit well in one of our longer videos so we thought we'd share that with you along with a code to save at Jamestown Distributors. They...
  • Aug 03, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:30
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 39: Aft Deadwood and Moving Lumber
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 39: Aft Deadwood and Moving Lumber
After seeing the fore deadwood and the milling in detail, we thought it would be interesting to see another side of these two processes. In this video we show how, where and why we stacked all the lumber from milling. We also get into making the Aft dead...
  • Jul 27, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:17
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Explanation of Nib for Wormshoe
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Explanation of Nib for Wormshoe
In the last episode we shaped the wormshoe to fit into the keel timber. We had many requests for an explanation on how we found those lines to cut to. This video is simply that explanation. Skip this video if you aren't interested in that. ------------...
  • Jul 20, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:50
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 38: Fore Wormshoe and Milling
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 38: Fore Wormshoe and Milling
The deadwood shaped in the last episode is capped with a wormshoe. The wormshoe is a protective sacrificial piece that can be replaced if it is ever damaged from running aground or any similar mishap. We have help from Michael, who drove all the way from...
  • Jul 13, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:08
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 37: Shaping the Forward Deadwood
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 37: Shaping the Forward Deadwood
With the ballast keel poured, faired and painted, it is now time to start building out fore and aft of it. Due to the naturally dense aspect of the ballast keel requiring such a condensed shape, deadwood pieces are necessary to fair it out into the wood k...
  • Jun 29, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:09
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 36: Flip it all (Faired Ballast Keel)
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 36: Flip it all (Faired Ballast Keel)
Sometimes, you just have to flip things on their heads to work on them. As we finished fairing our the ballast keel, we flipped it and the wood keel in order to be able to work on the underside. With everything upside down, we will then be able to work o...
  • Jun 15, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:15:01
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 35: Final Cut of the Keel Timber
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 35: Final Cut of the Keel Timber
This is one expensive piece of lumber! We wanted to make sure that we accurately cut the keel timber to shape so our initial cut was only getting us close to the final shape, so that we could see whether it warped/checked/shrank etc. afterwards. Now that...
  • Jun 01, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:18:24
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 34: Help from Colorado!
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 34: Help from Colorado!
Ryan bought a plane ticket, rented a car, and took a one week visit to come from Colorado to Massachusetts to help us on our project... for free! Thank you Ryan. We were curious as to what he thought of his week here and everything we accomplished. Also!...
  • May 18, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:50
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 33: Getting Help with Bow and Stern Timbers
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 33: Getting Help with Bow and Stern Timbers
Despite the arrival of Spring, weather just doesn't seem to want to let up. We've been struggling with the weather so as to start painting the keel timber and the ballast keel. With temps too cold to work on that, we switch gears and start working on the...
  • May 11, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:40
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 32: Sharpening Edge Tools
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 32: Sharpening Edge Tools
Having sharp tools is important. As temps are warming up and we are getting back into the thick of boatbuilding work, we felt this would be an appropriate video. Well kept tools lead to fun, productive and safe work. There is nothing worse than trying to...
  • May 04, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:29
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 31: Final Thickness
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 31: Final Thickness
We are clawing our way out of winter! Work is getting back on track and what better way to start finalizing our keel timber. We spent the first tentatively "warm" days finishing getting the keel timber to its final thickness along with a couple of outing...
  • Apr 27, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:19
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Dissimilar Metals Part 2
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Dissimilar Metals Part 2
What a winter!.... We felt that this would be a good time to put out our dissimilar metals experiment back to back and then hit it hard next week with a full length video. When mixing metals in a build, there are a lot of things to consider. Not only do t...
  • Apr 20, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:33
A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Dissimilar Metals and Galvanic action Part 1
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A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Dissimilar Metals and Galvanic action Part 1
Over the winter we decided to try out a little experiment we would share with everyone. While doing our research we heard a lot about the effects of different metals on one another. The nobility of a metal will determine how it reacts to others with diff...
  • Apr 13, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:46
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 30: Deadwood and Some Lead
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 30: Deadwood and Some Lead
We're still waiting on the weather to start warming up but we can still get ourselves as ready as possible for when it does. We start to work with the lumber that will become our deadwood and we shoot a propane tank to help us melt lead into the major div...
  • Apr 06, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:59
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 29: Lead Contamination and our Keel Pour
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 29: Lead Contamination and our Keel Pour
After the video of our lead keel pour came out, we received a lot of comments regarding the safety of the pour and about concerns or contamination to the surrounding area. We did our best to get information regarding such issues and went as far as calling...
  • Mar 30, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:42
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 28: Logging Round 2
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 28: Logging Round 2
There are differing ideas out there on what time of year is best to harvest trees for lumber. In our case, winter was ideal. Due to the cold and the lack of heating in the boathouse, we aren't able to work with certain materials such as paint, epoxy, fai...
  • Mar 23, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:23:02
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 27: Flattening the Keels
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 27: Flattening the Keels
After the arduous task of dragging our lead keel out of the ground and onto the cribbing in the boathouse, it was time to start working on flattening both keels in preparation for them to be mated together. See how we set things up in order to do that. Al...
  • Mar 09, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:18:13
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: 24000 Subscribers and Patreon!
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: 24000 Subscribers and Patreon!
We just broke 24000 subscribers and reached our Patreon goal of $1200 per video so we thought we would talk a bit about our expenses and how we are affording to do this project. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------...
  • Mar 02, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:10:18
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 26: Moving a 4.5 ton keel – Acorn to Arabella
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 26: Moving a 4.5 ton keel – Acorn to Arabella
It took us about three days to move the keel out of the ground and into the boathouse. No easy task moving an object that heavy. It's great to know that we now have our keel and it is sitting where it needs to be in the boathouse. Next we'll need to fai...
  • Feb 23, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:18:21
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 25: Setup for Our Lead Pour
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 25: Setup for Our Lead Pour
Need a setup to pour a lead keel? Here's how we set up to pour the 4.5 ton keel for our wooden sailboat build. We are building a 38ft wooden sailboat and needed a solid 9500lbs ballast keel. No easy task! If you haven't seen the video of the pour, you...
  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:11
Pouring a 4.5-Ton Lead Keel | Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat (Episode 24)
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Pouring a 4.5-Ton Lead Keel | Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat (Episode 24)
We finally poured it! Watching 100 gallons of molten lead drop into a wooden mold is not something you experience every day. In this video we focused more on the pour itself and not on the details of our setup. We will go into that in our next video. If y...
  • Jan 26, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:10:27
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Molten Lead In A Wood Mold? (Q & A 1)
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Molten Lead In A Wood Mold? (Q & A 1)
In anticipation of pouring our 9500 lbs lead keel we have had many questions, comments, suggestions and concerns. Thank you all so much for all of them! We wanted to start a question and answer segment to be able to answer questions in a more thorough an...
  • Jan 19, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:05:23
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 23: Ballast Keel Mold – Round 2
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 23: Ballast Keel Mold – Round 2
We decided that our previous ballast keel mold made of concrete had the possibility of being too dangerous. So we made a new one. Out of wood this time. As we say in the video, we would like to start putting out a short segment in between the longer cha...
  • Jan 05, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:38

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