Well, it's finally time to say goodbye to Victoria. We got her knowing she was going to be a parts boat but was still the first boat we ever owned. Feels a ...

Floor timbers are a critically important structural member in wooden boats. As we've been building Arabella, there have been many decisions so far in terms of ...

We've been going for three years straight now. At first we were working full time jobs and building on nights and weekends to support ourselves and pay for ...

Milling our planking stock out of our donated cedar and working on figuring out our bronze floor timbers! Buckle up because there is a lot of information ...

After having stripped Victoria of her interior, we now move on to disassembling her hull by removing her cockpit, aft deck and then her rudder. Almost all of ...

What is the soul of an old boat? We believe it has to do with all the people she has touched and the journeys they have experienced. All this shows in every ...

All the frames are steamed in! AND we got donated a TON of white cedar! We have been thinking about our planking material since we started and were ...

As we steam in Arabella's frames we have now reached the aft section of the build and need to cut the rabbet up the sides of the stern posts to determine where ...

Arabella has 70 frames. That's a fair amount of steaming. So, we thought it would be interesting to show what a full day of steaming looks like. Not to ...

Yep, we are making our own square shanked copper rivets for Arabella. Not only are they bigger than the biggest commercially available rivet we could find, it ...

Winter is coming and there is always something to do. We worked on getting Victoria buttoned up for the winter and hosted a middle school class for a field ...

Before the bent frames can be permanently fastened in place they need a final inspection, a coat of oil and their respective socket cleaned up and sealed. We ...

In the last video we showed a bit of the process for steaming in Arabella's frames but it's such an important part of the build that we wanted to do a full ...

Winter is coming and we need to get ready for it! We are planning on working through the winter, therefore it is important for us to be prepared with all the ...

We had a lot to do in order to get ready for the steaming of the frames. We cut the frame sockets as well as milled up all the framing stock, and just in ...

The build has been coming along nicely so far. There is only one thing that has really stymied us... The rabbet and bearding lines. Being such an important ...

Need an explanation of bent frame construction? Here's the first part. We've been working fast now and after assembling the backbone, it was time to install ...

The backbone is bolted together! We finally have some timbers bolted together and what a great feeling. It has been a long journey up to this point, with a ...

We're getting the backbone assembly up... but there is so much to do before we can actually put it all together. We go through all of that in this video, ...

It's taken two years of prep before getting to the point of being able to start bolting things together but we are finally there! The stern assembly is up and ...

Ever wondered who we really are? Well here we go! (at least a little bit of an insight...) Doug from SV Seeker has been kind enough to have interviewed us ...

Yes, we are starting to finally put her together. It's been a long time coming and we have many pieces ready, but we are steps away from bolting things ...

We love going to the wooden boat show at Mystic Seaport and wanted to share some of that with you all but it didn't really fit well in one of our longer videos ...

After seeing the fore deadwood and the milling in detail, we thought it would be interesting to see another side of these two processes. In this video we show ...