A long overdue repair, the mahogany from the original Victoria has just not held up to the rough and tumble life in Steve's tender. So just before setting sail ...

Let the fairing begin. Now that the fiberglassing is done it is on to fairing leading up to painting. Garrett has begun priming the hull now that he's finished ...

After eight months tied to the dock in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Arabella is finally getting ready to move again. This week, Steve removes the winter cover, ...

Webster and Oxford don't know every word ;) This is both a momentous and monumental moment in this refit when I finish fiberglassing and Garrett finishes ...

This week we get some primer on the keel and run out of screws but also get a lot of fiberglassing done. Relaunch will happen! It's only a matter of time ;) ...

Spring may have arrived on the calendar, but Newfoundland hasn't gotten the memo. With cold rain, wind, and freezing temperatures delaying the bigger ...

Don't worry it's not burn-out just relentless exhaustion ;) Please leave us a comment! We want to know how you recharge even in the smallest of ways. Thanks ...

A shop needs two things: somewhere to put your tools, and somewhere to use them. This week we turn an antique chest into a toolbox and finish a massive ...

Wrapping up bigger canvas projects means a lot of leftover material, so Steve takes a couple of hours to knock out a quick, practical upgrade for Arabella’s ...

Getting the work done is hard but what follows is going to make ALL of it worthwhile 😆 Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can ...

Winter isn't actually over yet, but we still swapped out the ski gear for our rock climbing gear. The south coast of Newfoundland is calling our name. We have ...

Before Arabella heads south for another season of exploration, Steve returns to where the journey first began—the woods and stumps where the oak trees for the ...

On-deck and below the waterline get a lot of attention in this episode. Garrett and I help each other out but mainly focus on our own areas. Splitting up the ...

Fiberglass and Screws! This is the beginning of our separate, never-ending, tasks left on the boat before relaunching. I get back to fiberglassing, working my ...

A messy deck offshore is more than annoying—it can become genuinely dangerous in rough weather. So Steve designed and sewed a completely custom ...

Winter still has Newfoundland in its grip, but while the harbor freezes over again outside, work aboard Arabella continues. This week, Steve tackles one of ...

Fixated on the pilot house roof ;) Here's the link for SV Panope on YouTube. Thanks for the inspiration! https://www.youtube.com/@Panope/ Thanks for watching! ...

Garrett is ruth-full but the pilot house is roof-less ;) Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy ...

After months of work, trial and error, and a few unexpected setbacks, we finally finished building our own sail covers and stack packs for Arabella. What ...

My first failure ever! Just kidding, one of many but my first botch on fiberglassing... Garrett takes his time analyzing and successfully gets the scarfed ...

This summer has been a long time coming. Long before Arabella was ever launched, there was a dream—to sail north, reach remote places, and go after untouched ...

Cutting the keel down for better water flow to our new propeller offers us a little space from the ongoing Pilot House project... Thanks for watching! p.s. I ...

Not a boat builder. Not a sailor. Steve built Arabella from scratch — cut the trees, milled the lumber, and planked her in white oak so she could handle this. ...

I’ve had this hatchet since I was 12…I've repaired the handle at least a dozen times, and I'll probably repair it a dozen more times over the course of my ...