Marissa's family and our dear friends the Howell's joined us for a weekend trip to Santa Cruz Island where we had a lot of fun but also a harrowing learning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

We've done steam bent frames for the majority of Arabella, now, in the stem and the stern, it's time to make some sawn frames. Where the bow and stern come in ...

Planking has been a very fun challenge though a bit of a challenge it has been. Learning to fit the oak planks to each other has its intricacies. We need to ...

The icebreaker Laurence Gould has 25 foot waves breaking on the back deck in 50 knot winds south of Cape Horn on the way to Antarctica. If you want to read ...

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This episode we have a container ship nearly crash into Catalpa, we replace windows and lee installs security screens. Oh and hang out with some other kid ...

we sailed from Plymouth to Falmouth could of done with a bit more wind but it was a lovely weekend with a stop off in Fowey Cornwall ...

Our sailing adventure around Scotland comes to an end and its time to head South. In this episode we go through the Crinan Canal, its a rather daunting ...

Norfolk, VA is an commercial area packed with big barges and large ships. A lot of them are commercial and a bunch are military as well. We just tucked off to ...

Hey everyone and welcome Squires Lady refit in this part you'll see that unfortunately we didn't get the boat into the water as we had planned. We decided to ...

In a follow-up to last week's update in which we described the miserable weather here, we show you some of the damage that this unprecedented storm has caused. ...