"Before the snow flies," is a busy time around a farm, and this year it involves improvements to the shed, fixing Akiva's platform, and doing a few other ...
Acorn To Arabella
The finishing touches go onto the shower pan, which gets a drain installed, and the anchor locker, which gets an outlet for gunk that might make its way via ...
The usefulness of fiberglass, when applied in the right places, makes the proper application of it an important skill. This week, we tackle three projects, two ...
It seems like we start something, get it to a point, then move on to the next thing... and that's completely on purpose. We'll be able to know where we want ...
Steve is the 5th generation of his family to live at Pinetum Farm, and many of his tools are lovely hand-me-downs, but some are workhorses he bought at the ...
Before we went to the boat show, Steve made progress with the galley sink, counter, and stowage area. He broke out some locust and used cherry for the first ...
We hope you caught the live discussion with Chesapeake Light Craft's John Harris that stood in for last week's episode. If not, here it is: ...
We went live aboard a small cruising boat in Annapolis during the Annapolis Sailboat Show with Nica and Jeremy Waters, cruisers who went all-in on their ...
The sound gets better at 13:11! Thanks for your patience. We had the mics turned down from the noisy day before, when we were walking around a crowded show ...
Here are the streaming and in-person events over the coming week: 7 a.m. ET, Friday, October 15: A2A Live from the Annapolis Sailboat Show The stream will ...
Working Towards the Galley & Alix Update – Episode 183 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Oh what a tangled web we weave! Anyone will tell you about the compromises in nearly all liveaboard choices, and to be sure at least a vast majority of cubic ...
This week it's just what it says on the tin. Steve goes through making the four remaining drawers for the workbench after he finishes the proof-of-concept ...
The Bellota the Bilge Dragon t-shirt can be found here: https://www.bonfire.com/bellota-the-bilge-dragon/ All of the milling in the last episode is starting ...
Bellota the Bilge Dragon: https://www.bonfire.com/bellota-the-bilge-dragon/ There is a great deal of difference between a boat built to suit most people—one ...
We covered a general plan for the interior in a breezy way a few weeks ago in a bonus video (https://youtu.be/RDxneIM3M8c), but now that a few things are in ...
We're glad you're stopping by! Please follow all the signs, and very importantly, please approach quietly, silence your phone (including camera noises) and ...
For visitor information and to watch the video Ben mentions in the intro, visit this page: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome We say saloon, some ...
This video ends with Carolyn's excitement to sit on the frame she built for one of the saloon setees and we'll get a glimpse of Steve laying down on his future ...
Buttoning up the forward bulkhead with coats of sealer and varnish makes way for some interior joinery in the forepeak that Steve has plenty of experience ...
We’ll see you Friday for a regular episode, but we’ve had a lot of requests for less speaking, and for perhaps something with a calm pace. We won’t be changing ...
In the past, we've had a look in the garage at the piles, en masse, of the mahogany lumber that came out of Victoria, but this week's video goes through a ...
A big reveal here: We have a close look, side by side, of Steve's plan for Arabella's interior laid alongside Atkins's fairly general layout he envisioned ...
Short run of merchandise available at acorntoarabella.com today: We've got planking offcuts of various sizes, frame offcuts from that closed-up port side of ...
The pesky, dangerous maple that serves as an anchor for the boathouse comes down in this episode, and Steve (who has worked in the past as an arborist, and of ...