The Long March to Launch - Episode 222 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
July 15, 2022 by Acorn To Arabella | Language: EN Play Time: 00:29:28 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
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Robin gives us a glimpse of this channel’s adventure content to come, but we begin with covering boards and lumber organization, specifically, for the deck planking. Just as with the locust for the covering boards, we only have so much of the pine deck planking and must make the most of it.
Not all wooden sailboats have laid decks such as this one, which will be cotton caulked and pitched when it’s finished. Since wooden boatbuilding is something that Steve is treating as a life experience, a laid boat deck is something he’d like to make on this journey.
We meet Sam, who most recently worked on the AJ Meerwald (state tallship of New Jersey) restoration with Clark and Eisele Traditional Boatbuilding. Now he’s lending that experience to Arabella, which is more of a DIY wooden boat adventure, and he’s been a treat to work with.
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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur boat builder building a 38′ wooden boat 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 DIY wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when he and the crew 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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