We've finished up with the port side bulwark planking and now to turn our attention to Rediviva's masts... Unfortunately with all the distraction of building ...

The bronze floor timbers have been a lot of work but it is all paying off. We spend some time prepping everything so that we can finally get to installing ...

The end of the current metal work which comes with fabricating the bronze floors we are installing in Arabella is finally nearing its end. These structural ...

This episode takes you through some typical work days; wake up, coffee, work on the boat, maybe a supply run, work on the boat, try not to forget to eat lunch, ...

We pushed really hard to get the bronze floors finished up so they could be sitting in their places during the open house. In this episode we show how we got ...

Flash through the galley completion and join Herby for the construction of our new deck rack! Maddie cleans like crazy and takes us on a walk through Angra. ...

We're moving right along with our silicon bronze floor timbers. We tacked most of the floor pieces together in preparation for welding them in batches. ...

When all the prep was done the reward was hanging planks! The preparations took weeks but finally the visual satisfaction of our first two runs of planking ...

As we continue moving forward on the forward and midship bronze floor timbers, we are kindly interrupted by a friend of ours who plays us a cover of 'Boats to ...

We've all been looking forward to getting to work on the bronze floors but before we can do so, we had a bit more cleaning up to do in order to finish up with ...

Determined to finish Rediviva and get her sailing we've decided to focus on the projects we have the motivation for. Tired of being trapped down below working ...

Well, it's tax time again! Perfect timing for us to go over our finances for the project before we ramp up to a change to weekly videos. Just like last year, ...

Well, it's finally time to say goodbye to Victoria. We got her knowing she was going to be a parts boat but was still the first boat we ever owned. Feels a ...

Floor timbers are a critically important structural member in wooden boats. As we've been building Arabella, there have been many decisions so far in terms of ...

(If you stay tuned at the end of this episode is a little real-time update.) We install the driveline and finally finish permanently securing the engine to the ...

We've been going for three years straight now. At first we were working full time jobs and building on nights and weekends to support ourselves and pay for ...

Milling our planking stock out of our donated cedar and working on figuring out our bronze floor timbers! Buckle up because there is a lot of information ...

After having stripped Victoria of her interior, we now move on to disassembling her hull by removing her cockpit, aft deck and then her rudder. Almost all of ...

What is the soul of an old boat? We believe it has to do with all the people she has touched and the journeys they have experienced. All this shows in every ...

All the frames are steamed in! AND we got donated a TON of white cedar! We have been thinking about our planking material since we started and were ...

As we steam in Arabella's frames we have now reached the aft section of the build and need to cut the rabbet up the sides of the stern posts to determine where ...

Arabella has 70 frames. That's a fair amount of steaming. So, we thought it would be interesting to show what a full day of steaming looks like. Not to ...

Yep, we are making our own square shanked copper rivets for Arabella. Not only are they bigger than the biggest commercially available rivet we could find, it ...

Winter is coming and there is always something to do. We worked on getting Victoria buttoned up for the winter and hosted a middle school class for a field ...