In the last episode we shaped the wormshoe to fit into the keel timber. We had many requests for an explanation on how we found those lines to cut to. This ...

The deadwood shaped in the last episode is capped with a wormshoe. The wormshoe is a protective sacrificial piece that can be replaced if it is ever damaged ...

With the ballast keel poured, faired and painted, it is now time to start building out fore and aft of it. Due to the naturally dense aspect of the ballast ...

Sometimes, you just have to flip things on their heads to work on them. As we finished fairing our the ballast keel, we flipped it and the wood keel in order ...

This is one expensive piece of lumber! We wanted to make sure that we accurately cut the keel timber to shape so our initial cut was only getting us close to ...

Ryan bought a plane ticket, rented a car, and took a one week visit to come from Colorado to Massachusetts to help us on our project... for free! Thank you ...

Despite the arrival of Spring, weather just doesn't seem to want to let up. We've been struggling with the weather so as to start painting the keel timber and ...

Having sharp tools is important. As temps are warming up and we are getting back into the thick of boatbuilding work, we felt this would be an appropriate ...

We are clawing our way out of winter! Work is getting back on track and what better way to start finalizing our keel timber. We spent the first tentatively ...

What a winter!.... We felt that this would be a good time to put out our dissimilar metals experiment back to back and then hit it hard next week with a full ...

Over the winter we decided to try out a little experiment we would share with everyone. While doing our research we heard a lot about the effects of different ...

We're still waiting on the weather to start warming up but we can still get ourselves as ready as possible for when it does. We start to work with the lumber ...

After the video of our lead keel pour came out, we received a lot of comments regarding the safety of the pour and about concerns or contamination to the ...

There are differing ideas out there on what time of year is best to harvest trees for lumber. In our case, winter was ideal. Due to the cold and the lack of ...

After the arduous task of dragging our lead keel out of the ground and onto the cribbing in the boathouse, it was time to start working on flattening both ...

We just broke 24000 subscribers and reached our Patreon goal of $1200 per video so we thought we would talk a bit about our expenses and how we are affording ...

It took us about three days to move the keel out of the ground and into the boathouse. No easy task moving an object that heavy. It's great to know that we ...

Right in front of the house is a row of perfectly straight Norway spruces. We couldn't help but think about the possibility of them becoming a part of ...

Last week we shared Victorias trip home with us. Now we'd like to show you what she's got to offer. She a veritable treasure trove! We go through some of the ...

Previously we drove to Rhode Island to build up some connections. While we were there, we were urged to go check out a boat that was for sale near there. ...

We've been crazy busy the last couple of months. Many unexpected trips and work have kept us from getting much progress done on Arabella. This video is from ...

We make a trip to Maine to show our short film in the International Maritime film Festival in Bucksport, Maine. On the way we catch up with old friends and ...

In our last installment we started laminating some of the bow and stern timbers. The forefoot was one piece that ended up being a little trickier and we ...

We ended the last video with a teaser of us chainsawing some lead keels. We go into more depth on that and then show how we finished the rough shaping on the ...