In the last video we showed a bit of the process for steaming in Arabella's frames but it's such an important part of the build that we wanted to do a full ...

Winter is coming and we need to get ready for it! We are planning on working through the winter, therefore it is important for us to be prepared with all the ...

Randi left me for six days to go visit her sister in Oregon, giving me the opportunity to push my work ethic to it's limit. I'm challenging myself to get as ...

We had a lot to do in order to get ready for the steaming of the frames. We cut the frame sockets as well as milled up all the framing stock, and just in ...

We arrive in Italy! Not where we planned, but we arrive safely after a relaxed crossing from Greece. Our way goes through the Strait of Messina and we find ...

The build has been coming along nicely so far. There is only one thing that has really stymied us... The rabbet and bearding lines. Being such an important ...

Need an explanation of bent frame construction? Here's the first part. We've been working fast now and after assembling the backbone, it was time to install ...

Foram 3 dias velejando no mar do Caribe, deixamos Aruba rumo a Cartagena de Índias na Colombia, três dias no meio do mar e aproximadamente 400 milhas náuticas. ...

The backbone is bolted together! We finally have some timbers bolted together and what a great feeling. It has been a long journey up to this point, with a ...

Nesse episódio velejamos 90MN de Curaçao para Aruba. Chegamos nessa ilha cheia de Shoppings, Cassinos e Hotéis. A ancoragem não foi das melhores e nos ...

Seguimos nossa viagem velejando pelo mundo. Fizemos uma parada em Curaçao por mais tempo que imaginávamos, a previsão do tempo não estava favorável então ...

We're getting the backbone assembly up... but there is so much to do before we can actually put it all together. We go through all of that in this video, ...

Chegamos em Curaçao depois de um ótimo velejo e é hora de desembarcar a tripulação e explorar a cidade. Mas antes de sairmos livres por ai perdemos um bom ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2018 Canada day weekend.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...