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 ...
Acorn To Arabella
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 ...
As always we shall be chatting about where we are and what we have been up to, along with answering any questions you might have. Live chat also gives us a ...
Living With The Tide
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 ...
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 ...
This is the end of Season 1! In this video we take a look back at the adventure over the past year. We want to thank you all for joining us this far and we ...
In this episode we get invited to race in the West Indies Annual Regatta. We hop on board Genesis to race against other traditional carriacou yachts and have a ...
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 ...
In this Episode we dive Pigeon island, one of Jacques Cousteau's top ten dive sites! Then its time to say goodbye to Robert before heading to Antigua Classic ...
In this episode we find out where our suspicion leak is coming from, before being joined by the Whitey from Blighty. We explore some beautiful forts and ...
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 ...
In this episode we say goodbye to our awesome crew member Tom in Martinique before setting sail to Dominica. Here we get to drink plenty of rum, meet new ...
In this Episode we check out some beautiful places in St.Lucia from sulphur springs to freezing waterfalls. After a lovely day spent exploring Matthew gets ...
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 ...
In this Episode Matt and Tom explore the beautiful union island, before hiking to the highest peak and setting up camp for the night. After a nice hike the ...
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 ...
In this episode we experience swell like never before, when "Swellmageddon" hits our lovely bay in Bequia! After our short stay in princess Margret's bay we ...
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 ...
In this episode we are invited aboard a Barefoot catamaran for a day sailing around St.Vincent. Its our first ever time stepping onto Catamaran and Matthew ...
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 ...