Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Milling White Oak in New England (EP63) Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

Welcome back and Happy New Year! We've been working on Arabella for four years now. We cut the first tree in January of 2016 and it has been a wild ride since ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Making Beam Shelves / Sheer Clamps (EP62) Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

We have been working on sending tools down to SAILCARGO for a while now and we finally are getting to the point of actually shipping things! With everything ...

In the last episode, we broke a plank. No big deal though, as with everything we've come up on in the project, the key is just finding a way forward. So we ...

Well... we broke a plank. No worries though. We got it fixed and back on the boat. That's how we roll here... with the punches and not against them. We ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Installing the Fashion Pieces (EP61) Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

There is always a ton of stuff going on at the same time here. And although some of it is behind the scenes action and not necessarily boatbuilding per se, ...

Planking can be a long tedious process, especially when you are gluing up and fastening full length planks. We have gone into much of the details of how we ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Stern / Cutting the Rabbet (EP60) Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

We made our own 1/4 inch square copper rivets to hang Arabella's planks and we are now to the point where we actually get to use them! This is such an ...

After our glue failure on the scarf joints for the planks, we also had some glue failure on the graving pieces. This time though, it was with a new and good ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Keel / Adze work (EP59) Support; http://sampsonboat.co.uk/support/ Become a Patron; ...

Need to drill a big hole?... BORING! That's right, we are final to the point of boring out the stern post for our prop shaft. We were very much looking ...

We'd like your help! We've made some very good friends these past years via the project. A lot of which are doing some very cool things. At the last ...

With a project like this, there are always going to be ups and downs. The key is trying to stay up beat and finding a way around the road bumps. We've been ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Ship of Theseus / Project Recap Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

While we take a break from the prop shaft assembly to let Joe finish milling the Delrin liner and the other components, we get back to some planking. As soon ...

Sometimes, boatbuilding is all about big showy pieces coming together. But much of the time it is also working with small details. This week, we focus on ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Cutwater / More Timber! Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

We are getting farther up the hull with the planking and as we do so, we are nearing the point at the stern where the propeller shaft will go through. We need ...

Completing Arabella's hull is something we are eagerly striving for. With this installment we cross a milestone in that goal. All of Arabella's frames that ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Roughing-out the Stem / Timber Decisions Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

In last week's episode, we went into detail about how we are fabricating the forward sawn floors. From how we are taking measurements using tick sticks and a ...