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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 98: Antique Thicknesser
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 98: Antique Thicknesser

We are still pushing to get work done while we deal with figuring out what needs to be done to revamp the boathouse. We got another set of boards milled up for the last oak plank on the port side. As we are getting down to the last of the oak planking stock, we are getting to pieces with a couple ...
  • Jan 31, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:24
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 97: Finishing the Grown Oak Knees
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 97: Finishing the Grown Oak Knees

Gathering the grown knees has ended up being quite the adventure. But in this episode, Steve tackles the biggest stump of them all. This one yielded quite a few good specimens that will be perfect in Arabella. Once all the knees were freed and once side was planed flat we needed to thickness them...
  • Jan 24, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:51
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 96: What Are Grown Knees For?
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 96: What Are Grown Knees For?

We've been busting stump to get the knees freed but that doesn't mean the battle is over. We still have many more to go and once they are freed, they still need to be sized and thicknessed. The good news is, we only need to rough them out right now so that they are an appropriate size an...
  • Jan 17, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:01
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 95: Harvesting White Oak Knees
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 95: Harvesting White Oak Knees

Harvesting knees for Arabella turned out to be MUCH more work than we ever thought it would be. In the last episode we gathered a couple of stumps but we still needed a little more and then it was time to tackle the job of cleaning them... not to mention freeing them from the clump of wood, dirt an...
  • Jan 10, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:13
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 94: Gathering Oak Rootstock
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 94: Gathering Oak Rootstock

Welcome back and Happy New Year! We've been working on Arabella for four years now. We cut the first tree in January of 2016 and it has been a wild ride since then! There have been plenty of challenges along the way. We look forward to solving these challenges every time but it also takes a ...
  • Jan 03, 2020
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:08
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 93: A Little Bit Behind the Scenes
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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 93: A Little Bit Behind the Scenes

We have been working on sending tools down to SAILCARGO for a while now and we finally are getting to the point of actually shipping things! With everything we gathered, we had to figure out how to get it down there and not lose anything in the process... so, we built crates to keep everything toge...
  • Dec 20, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:21
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 ends in and get them close to what they w...
  • 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't do in that instance. The are a o...
  • 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 how to make tools to make the build easier ...
  • 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 of explanations. Sometimes, it can be very ...
  • 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 fruits of our labor in their final place. ...
  • 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 that the clamping pressure was being lost du...
  • 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 bar with multiple different cutter atta...
  • 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 SAILCARGO have set up a ship yard in C...
  • 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 required a lot of machining which we needed ...
  • 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 on installing the rest of the planking. In...
  • 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 assembly that is still coming together. Joe ...
  • 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 our bore perfectly level (our shaft is level...
  • 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 seven sets of frames (currently b...
  • 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 episode we get into more of that wor...
  • 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 areas would not be very easy nor i...
  • 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 good bead of cotton caulking. All of this ...
  • 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 installing these now because it will allow us to ...
  • 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 has been steamed in after we have cut ...
  • Aug 23, 2019
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:26
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