We are on the last steps of putting together the sill for the house top and the blocking for the mizzen mast. Alix needs to cut the half laps in the corners ...

Building our Main Boom gets interrupted by "Onboard Lifestyle"'s SV Basik. We talk butterfly hatch with David, a new volunteer, and Gove finishes our galley ...

In this video, Emily does some clear-coating, fiberglassing, and filleting to prep the seats, bulkheads, and inspection ports as she nears the sanding stage of ...

The deck framing is almost complete on Arabella. In this episode, Steve wraps up all the framing in the aft section by making a couple more deck beams and then ...

Splicing, head injuries, and tile. I heal up just fine while I edit and Garrrett works on the rudder cheeks and Gove lays down the beautiful Mexican tile in ...

We working on wrapping up the last of the deck framing before we can get to a house top mockup. While Alix continues with fairing around the house top ...

A huge round of applause to Gove and Michael! They’ve helped continue the stoke onboard Rediviva by tiling the galley counter and building the ratlines. Making ...

We are nearing the end of the knees! It's amazing the difference that can be seen as these all start to go in. Not only to the rigidity of the structure but ...

Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: [email protected]. Let us ...

Knees and blocking are what keep the deck of the boat from racking or moving in unwanted ways. Ours are made from the stumps we dug out of the ground around ...

The engine is running! What a great way to end one year and start the next. If I don’t respond to your comment I’ll try and answer your question in the next ...

Now that we have installed the short beams around the deckhouse opening, it's time to start fairing that out. These beams have all been milled a bit oversized ...

Thanks to our followers we are taking final measurements for our sails and welcome our first volunteers. Josh & Alexis are amazing people. They ended up ...

Girls can build stuff, too! Support this and other projects via our Patreon page: http://patreon.com/EmilyAndClark Over two months, Emily built a lightweight ...

Last year, at about this time of year as well, some blood, sweat and maybe tears were shed in retrieving some large White Oak rootstock from the woods and ...

Sit back, relax, and enjoy that this is not your boat project ;) All is well aboard Rediviva yet when you’re ready to go full speed ahead but your planning and ...

There is a lot of time consuming but rewarding work in boat building. Cutting carlin joints to instal short beams is a good task to show how much time some of ...

A Jack Tar is what they used to call the sailor that was entrusted with slushing/taring the rigging. It was a messy job. It would be a crazy task when there’s ...

Alix continues work on Arabella with making and installing the lodging knees at midship. These, along with the rigidity of the housetop, will help keep the ...

We all need a break from big projects and this time it's Steve's turn! As Alix stays back to look after Arabella and the boathouse to continue work on fitting ...

Thanks for watching everyone! Many thanks and much love, Ruthie https://saltandtar.org/ https://www.patreon.com/saltandtar ----- pledge per episode ...

Say hello to Mike and his family! Mike is making our sails for Rediviva. He and his wife own M&H Bartles, Sailmakers in Boothbay, Maine. We're excited for ...

We’re recovering from last week and get to a project we know we can complete; the main chainplates! It was fun working on a straight forward project. Much of ...

As we continue working on Arabella, we look ahead at starting to figure out the power plant. We got a beautiful new engine from Nanni Diesel last year and now ...