
That's A Lot Of Glue - Episode 241 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
November 25, 2022 by Acorn To Arabella | Language: EN Play Time: 00:28:07 | SAILING YOUTUBERS

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The forward hatch gets trimmed to its final size and holes for deadlights are cut. It was tall, and now it’s less tall and looking way more proportional to the cabin trunk. As per usual, there’s a little bit of conversation around final decisions for it, and so KP and Annie B weigh in.
Part two of turning Great-Grandpa’s front yard tree into Arabella’s wooden main mast reveals our plan for putting electrical items up at the top of the mast—we glued blue electrical conduit right up the middle to make it easy to chase wires. We re-assemble this disassembled tree into a final glue-up stronger than the tree would have been with its heartwood, sapwood, and other imperfections removed.
Lots of glue, lots of progress. Happy Friday!
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Acorn to Arabella is a wooden boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur wooden boat builder building a 38′ wooden sailboat in his backyard: designer William Atkin’s Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel’s gaff rig. These videos follow the journey from tree felling, to lumber milling, to lofting, to the lead keel pour and beyond—sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that classic wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY boatbuilding project will continue well past launch, when he and the crew will travel and learn to cruise aboard the handmade wooden boat that they’ve built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.
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