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The New Ocean Fox arrives in the yard in Windsor.
We spend the next few days planning the layout and we start work on the engine room and the bow locker.
Difficult times ahead off us but we are very excited...
The mock-up, and now mold, for the cabin house is finally put to work as the cedar strip-planked house comes together. Building this crucial part of the boat with this method has many reasons, chief among them being that strip-planking is extremely strong ...
#truckdriver #whatanightmare #boatproblems
We finally get to collect Ocean Fox 2 from the farm by Bath. However this does not go according to plan when the truck driver left the site. Unbelievable, he came and left just like that. Grumpy as anything with ...
The last plank... for now, anyway. This episode doesn't feature the whiskey plank, and Steve does a very good explanation for those who have been asking about the difference between a shutter plank and a whiskey plank. We've got four shutters, and like all...
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We finally make a decision on which boat to buy!
We are very happy to show you which barge we chose to buy. It is going to be a brand new boat, nothing better than that right? Well, at least we hope so!
We will...
As we've been finishing the rest of the planking on the port side, we have had groups of helpers lend a hand to clean up Arabella's interior. Most recently, David and his son, Grant, card-scraped the interior and applied Danish Teak Sealer to planks and fr...
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We look at two more barges, one old and one that has never been in the water.
We now have selected four barges for you to help us to make a decision.
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The weather our here in western Massachusetts has been a bit wacky. Though colder days pushed off the possibility of gluing early in the season, we're now dealing with really hot days and thunderstorms—but that's not slowing us down as we scoot along pla...
#buyingboats #boatsonthemarket buyingbarges
We look at a few barges in Essex and on the River Thames before deciding we should buy the big barge Heather Rose. But Carla has better ideas when we fall out!
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Getting the nib-ends of these full-length planks fitted into the rabbet fore and aft is one of the hardest tasks of planking Arabella. Since we don't have any wiggle room to move fore or aft, the cuts need to be dead-on for the planks to sit correctly. Add...
#bluewatersailing #barging #boatbuilding #refurbishingboats
We travel up to the Humber estuary to look at two Barges. The first is in a lot worst condition than we were expecting. The second is far too big! What can be done?
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It's a big moment here in the Acorn to Arabella boathouse. We have been steadily working on closing up the hull and now the oak shutters are going in.
After these are installed, we will only have six more planks to go. Two cedar strakes will lead up to th...
Acorn to Arabella—our wooden boat building project—will take you on a journey from stump to ship, as we turn trees from the family farm into a 38' wooden boat that will eventually sail the world. See ya every Friday with a new video highlighting the bo...
An overview of who we are and what we do. See ya every Friday with a new video.
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The mizzen mast has been tandem project as the planking has progressed. Alix chipped away at it between other important tasks, and now it's finally finished! Of course, the hounds and hardware need to be installed, but this big, beautiful, repurposed piece...
The gaps in Arabella's planking are getting much smaller... and soon they will be no more. We are pushing hard to close up the hull with Carolyn's help before she moves on.
The shutter planks are a pretty exciting part of the build. There are only two o...
The planking work is moving right along, but unfortunately Jack and Wes have to head home. We discuss the work that we got done as a team, then focus on the mizzen mast, which is also nearing completion.
Alix has been working on spot repairs with graving ...
Jack and Wes are back to do more work on Arabella. Wes's earlier visits involved stacking lumber and bending frames. Now he's back for a taste of planking and we hope he returns to help out with the interior.
Jack was a part of our planking crew last year,...
We're back to planking! We've asked some of our skilled friends to come back and help us get closer to closing up Arabella's hull. We have eight oak planks, a couple of cedar planks, and the black locust sheer strakes remaining for installation. After the ...
Lots going on here at the boathouse. It's time to put the taper in the top of the mast. Turns out there's a little bit more to that than just doing a straight taper. We'll be talking about a certain kind of taper as well as figuring out how to accommoda...
Bilge stringers (which we also call bilge bands) add longitudinal stiffness to Arabella in an area of the boat where it's needed. Carolyn, who's been working on fitting the stringers into the boat, gives us a good look at how she sneaks up on a very smart ...
Live Q&A Session we held on Friday, April 16 from Arabella’s boat shed in Granby, MA. We also talked about the important changes coming to Patreon as of May 1. Read more about that here: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/patreon-help-page
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We are looking ahead to getting back to planking Arabella this summer. In order to do that, we are going to want all hands on deck, so we got a little help coming in. The first of the crew has arrived and she will be helping us for the next month or more...
There is a lot of work going into restoring Victoria's old mast to be our mizzen mast. We already set up a sort of lathe and jig to cut kerfs into the mast so that we can then bring it down to a six inch diameter. To do that, I used a combination of a po...
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