More about our last Open House ever: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
How could there possibly be ways to do something new while building something as ancient and simple as a wooden boat? We're sure this isn't the first time someone's used ...
We did a shoutout to a special, potential intern: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWVEITvo7q/ Spread the word on IG and FB! If you applied last week, we'll be in touch soon.
Centerline blocking does one big, important thing, and it's something that's barely...
Apply for our summer 2022 apprenticeship, or pass this link to someone you think would be interested: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/internship-summer-2022
It's time to make a home for the woodstove, which will get a similar heat-resistant surround as di...
For information about our May 7&8 Open House (our final one!) visit: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
Evan at MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts finished an important stainless steel surround that serves as the home for the gal...
KP got a week to settle in, and takes on a satisfying task: fitting the last three deck beams now that we're done with major interior installations just below them, and that we're getting everything in order to install the next big things: covering boards ...
Open house May 2022 information is here: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
The head might be a small space, but there are a lot of details that have required a great deal of planning and critical decision-making. Steve discusses and installs...
For more information about Open House and to get updates, visit this page: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
We've had a history of talented, kind, supportive crew here. They're more than employees, of course. KP came to us by way of a long-...
Learn more about our VERY LAST open house or about visiting Arabella here: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
Now that we've got the various stainless tanks and heat shields here at the shop, it's time to start doing this and that around Arab...
Last call for this very important fundraiser: https://www.bonfire.com/the-a2a-community-crest/ Only a couple of days left, and it's crucial to the coming year and the work we need to do to prepare for launch. Thank you for your support!
The water tanks h...
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We save even the smallest or thinnest pieces of mahogany from Victoria just in case a piece of scrap wood might be helpful. As we looked to fill the bungs...
Join Steve, Akiva, Annie B, and special guests for Live from the Boat Shed 15. Who will stop by? Who will call in? See you there on February 11 at 5 p.m. ET. (Want to see the other episodes in our Live Archive? There’s 14 hours’ worth on Patreon!)
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Livestream celebration, 5 p.m. ET: https://youtu.be/pCa0VXfjl_8
A2A Community Tee: http://bonfire.com/the-a2a-community-crest
Visiting us in Granby today? Here's more info: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
Comment when you see the moment yo...
Set a reminder for the live steam on February 11 visit: https://youtu.be/pCa0VXfjl_8
Visiting February 11 here in Granby? The info you need: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
NEW BONFIRE T-SHIRT CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF NEXT FRIDAY!
It's cold. Ve...
To get yourself a reminder when we go live on February 11 visit: https://youtu.be/pCa0VXfjl_8
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In this episode, we fabricate, modify, and install a bunch...
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So many updates this week! What's cooking for 2022? Did we just reveal a bit about o...
Come along with us to MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Evan Kelly takes the three dimensional templates we built a couple of weeks back and turns them into stainless steel water tanks. In this episode, we'll follow one tank through that p...
Don't worry, electrical geeks and systems nerds, there's still plenty to do on the wiring front. We have to put that on pause a bit until we know what the clearance is around the finished water tanks. Until then, let's keep screaming along on the interior....
We've got three booth visits for you, and exciting ones at that: Sea Frost refrigeration, Mantus Marine's anchor swivel and chain hook, and a nifty tool demo at the beginning.
After building the refrigerator and having it so close to finished, we're glad...
Here's the rest of the conversation. We broadcast an earlier live video— https://youtu.be/uZkFNjgkezQ — in which you can see Anne's friend Nica making fantastic soup and sandwiches aboard Calypso in Spa Creek. After that, we had a nice conversation wit...
Gratitude to Bluetti for sending along this unit and solar panels for us to test in the shop. See details for the AC200 Max: https://bit.ly/3pr9XK0
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What a payoff! Layers and layers of all sorts of foam, 'glass, epoxy, and fairing compound have come to this big reveal of how this refrigerated chest will look when it goes into the boat—covered in contrasting cherry wood. Before then, though, it did se...
After all the fiberglass, foam, and fairing compound from the last few weeks, we get to the pretty stuff for the custom refrigerator (oh heck maybe with a bit more of all of that, too): the drop-in lids are topped with cherry and cherry burl, and they're m...
There are a lot of steps to each of the things we do on Arabella, especially in the interior, and between those multiple paint coats drying, that epoxy curing, and intense reading about 12 V DC electrical systems, there's plenty to do around and about to p...
"Before the snow flies," is a busy time around a farm, and this year it involves improvements to the shed, fixing Akiva's platform, and doing a few other labor-intensive tasks for which we had a passionate group of volunteers to help with. Thank you very m...
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