Steve Denette: The 5th-generation farmer who built the 38ft wooden ketch Arabella from the stumps of his family farm, now pioneering big-wall climbing in ...
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Isabella was dirty, so Karen gave her a good scrubbing… and wow, what a squirter. With soap, suds, and a whole lot of hose action, she got the decks gleaming ...
Stitch and glue construction, this is the beginning - the stitching! The dinghy is from CLC, Chesapeake Light Craft, the Tenderly 10 design: ...
Planking, bugs, dolphins, pelicans, bikini, shrimp, wine, butts and more. We were attacked by tiny bugs. It was disgusting! Tried a zapper, sticky ribbon, and ...
This week was doubling up, holes for a clamp. With tropical storm Nicole moving nearby, we added extra dock lines in preparation of some big blows. We have 1 ...
The last plank... for now, anyway. This episode doesn't feature the whiskey plank, and Steve does a very good explanation for those who have been asking about ...
The weather our here in western Massachusetts has been a bit wacky. Though colder days pushed off the possibility of gluing early in the season, we're now ...
The planking work is moving right along, but unfortunately Jack and Wes have to head home. We discuss the work that we got done as a team, then focus on the ...
Jack and Wes are back to do more work on Arabella. Wes's earlier visits involved stacking lumber and bending frames. Now he's back for a taste of planking and ...
We're back to planking! We've asked some of our skilled friends to come back and help us get closer to closing up Arabella's hull. We have eight oak planks, a ...
Lots going on here at the boathouse. It's time to put the taper in the top of the mast. Turns out there's a little bit more to that than just doing a ...
We decided to go racing. There were some delays and we got tired sailing waiting for the start. Once underway we held up our end of coming in last. Cakewalk ...
This week we exercised and repaired our Jib. The UV cover stitching had come lose. We pulled it down and managed to fit it into the salon. This is when we ...
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In this installment we continue the battle with the brittle cedar planking and finally manage to get one fastened to the hull. Aaron tries his hand at fitting ...
As many of you may have deduced, our planned planking party did not go as planned at all. This was for many reasons but mainly due to the outbreak of COVID19 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...