The Aft Hatch - Episode 146 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Acorn To Arabella
Steve Denette: The 5th-generation farmer who built the 38ft wooden ketch Arabella from the stumps of his family farm, now pioneering big-wall climbing in Newfoundland.
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The deck framing is almost complete on Arabella. In this episode, Steve wraps up all the framing in the aft section by making a couple more deck beams and then framing in the hatch. This hatch will provide some storage but also some ventilation to the engine compartment.
Meanwhile, Alix diligently works on the sill plate for the house top. The sill plate needs to fit snugly to the carlins and deck beams which frame the house top opening. They will then be joined at the corners via half lap joints and screwed down to provide a base for the house to built up off of but also for the decking to butt up against. Where the decking abuts the sill plate will then provide an ample surface for caulking around the house.
Soon the work is going to shift to mocking up the house and the cockpit so that we start to figure out what we want the interior to look like!
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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38′ wooden boat in their 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 wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when they will travel and learn to cruise aboard the boat that they’ve built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.
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