Deck beam construction has begun! In this episode we make great strides towards a framed deck in Arabella. The black locust shelves get varnished and prepped ...

Bob and Steve finish fitting the black locust beam shelf into Arabella. This involves some pattern making and a whole slew of hooked scarfs to be cut. While ...

We had some lofty plans before borders started to close and made us rethink our summer plans. We ended us flying to Maui, Hawaii to stay with Spencer's parents ...

Just before the Covid-19 lockdown in BVI we had the unique chance to be the only people at the wreck of the RMS Rhone. Normally there are dozens of dive and ...

With some help from Bob Emser @TheArtofBoatBuilding we get the breasthooks bolted into place and launch into the black locust beam shelf. Black locust is ...

With the sheer clamp bolted into place the next piece of the deck puzzle is the breasthooks. The breashooks join the clamp with the stem and stern posts and ...

Welcome back! This episode Steve gets the sheer clamp bolted together and fastened to the steam bent frames of Arabella. The clamp is the first piece of deck ...

In this episode we varnish the white oak clamp and start working on cleaning up Victoria's hackmatack knees. The knees were likely harvested from the roots of ...

In this installment we make progress on the big planer set-up and we launch into building the sheer clamp. The sheer clamp is the first piece of the deck ...

Finally, after 13 months and many ups and downs, I've set off for deeper waters beyond Tokyo Bay. With the help of my crew, we cleaned and prepped the boat, ...

In this episode we fasten all the recently bent frames and Arabella becomes 100% framed! After that big milestone we launch into the deck structure which is ...

Now that the molds are out we can bend in the remaining 14 frames and finish framing Arabella! Big thanks to everyone who is following and supporting our ...

We've all been waiting to see this one. Arabella's molds finally get removed and we can see from stem to stern with nothing in the way! Big thanks to ...

For all those wondering where Alix has been and when he is coming back here are some answers for you! Spoiler alert: He is alive and well and enjoying some ...

This round we tackle the remainder of the planking rabbet, make and hang some cedar and start prepping framing stock. It won't be long until the molds come ...

We get all steamed up and tweak some steam bent white oak frames so they lay more fair with the planking. Measurements are taken off the hull and the ...

Greg, talks about coaching , sailing ,Pan Am's etc. Due to my hectic schedule the past 2 weeks I had tp pull the earlier unedited version down. And repost ...

In this episode we install some more oak planks, remove the stairs to the second floor so we can keep planking and run out of dry oak for planking stock. ...

Elizabeth Kratzig talks with me about sailing. Match racing and other things. You will notice some editing in this video as I thought we lost some things, ...

Dawn talks answers my questions about Women's sailing, Americas Cup, Maiden, Might Mary, OaKcliff, and more. Even turns me down when I try to sell her some ...

Chris answers all the usual questions, talks about his favorite program, sailing in the Islands and Canada, Coaching and more.

This round we re-stock the lumber pile with some glorious white oak, ash and some hickory. Steve designs, builds and launches a quick and dirty pram for ...

Quantum Sails rep and J boat guru,Travis talks sailing.

Victor, talks sailing 20 questions with Victor.