One of the things we appreciate so much about boatbuilding is that there are so many different ways to do things and so many things to learn. We have worked ...
Acorn To Arabella
Steve made the last oak plank! Yes, we know, we've said it before (and might say it again... haha). But we are planning for this to be the last full length ...
A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 101: Pairing an 1800s Thicknesser and a Chrysler Flathead 6
Sometimes, pairing vintage machines, is just cool! When we got the 27 inch thicknesser from Ganon and Benjamin a couple months ago, we knew we were going to ...
Part 2 of our recap video! We have gone through so much since the last recap video that we couldn't fit it all into one episode. From figuring out how to ...
We've been busting stump to get the knees freed but that doesn't mean the battle is over. We still have many more to go and once they are freed, they still ...
Harvesting knees for Arabella turned out to be MUCH more work than we ever thought it would be. In the last episode we gathered a couple of stumps but we ...
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 ...
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 ...