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Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 38: Fore Wormshoe and Milling
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 from running aground or any similar mishap. We have help from Michael, who drove all the way from Ohio to help us as well as Rhys, who flew i...
Salt & Tar Episode 33: Part 3- Finishing the Cabin Re-remodel
We did it! Just about 2 months and the cabin redo is complete. I'm also pretty proud I got Part 3 to you in 2 weeks!!!! Working full time on the boat and getting into a rhythm with the videos. We're picking up pace too! We're hoping to see that water before fall.... :D Thanks everyo...
Lofting the Lines; Part 2 – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP25
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Lofting the Lines; Part 2. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I continue lofting the lines of the 1910 Gaff Cutter, Tally Ho - enlarging them to life-size on the new 50’ lofting floor in the workshop. I get some help from a young Australian Shipw...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 37: Shaping the Forward Deadwood
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 keel requiring such a condensed shape, deadwood pieces are necessary to fair it out into the wood keel so as to have a flowing bottom. In this...
Salt & Tar Episode 32 – Part 2: Cabin Re-remodel
It's a long one so grab something cold and wet to sip on! Thanks for watching (and waiting)
Lofting the Lines; Part 1 – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP24
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Lofting the Lines; Part 1. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I take some more measurements of Tally Ho’s current shape compared to her original lines, and make a big decision about how to go about bringing her back to a more authentic and elegan...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 36: Flip it all (Faired Ballast Keel)
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 to be able to work on the underside. With everything upside down, we will then be able to work on the deadwood and drilling before we bolt t...
The Wreck and the Rescue – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP23
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – The Wreck and the Rescue. Support; Become a Patron; --- This episode, I investigate the part of Tally Ho’s history where she was almost wrecked on a remote Pacific Atoll, in 1968. Amazingly, I have been given photographs of Tally Ho high and dry on the reef,...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 35: Final Cut of the Keel Timber
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 the final shape, so that we could see whether it warped/checked/shrank etc. afterwards. Now that we are close to mating the two keels togeth...
Restoring a HUGE vintage Ship Saw / Bandsaw – Rebuilding TALLY HO EP22
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Restoring the Ship Saw. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I take some measurements and consider the hogging of the hull of the 1910 yacht TALLY HO, and then use jacks to bend the whole boat back into shape, having removed some of the Iron Floors...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 34: Help from Colorado!
Ryan bought a plane ticket, rented a car, and took a one week visit to come from Colorado to Massachusetts to help us on our project... for free! Thank you Ryan. We were curious as to what he thought of his week here and everything we accomplished. Also! We will be sawmilling for the next couple ...![The Shipwreck, The $1 Boat, And The Wise Man [Ep. 1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/69YdL5qnHrg/mqdefault.webp)
The Shipwreck, The $1 Boat, And The Wise Man [Ep. 1]
Meet Maya, Aladino, and Magic Carpet. We all ended up together because of 1) a tragic accident, 2) an amazing miracle, and 3) an inspirational mentor. Here's how it all began. Aladino and I met in summer 2017. He was sailing his boat in the Mediterranean, and I was working on a boat in the sa...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 33: Getting Help with Bow and Stern Timbers
Despite the arrival of Spring, weather just doesn't seem to want to let up. We've been struggling with the weather so as to start painting the keel timber and the ballast keel. With temps too cold to work on that, we switch gears and start working on the Bow and Stern timbers. Everythin...
Chainsawing & fitting huge new Keel Timber in a 1910 sailboat – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP21
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping and Fitting the Keel Timber. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I work on turning an enormous lump of Purpleheart Timber into a new Keel for the historic sailing vessel, Tally Ho. I make a plywood pattern from the old keel, then plane the...
Using Epoxy to Repair Rotting Decks (Old Timer Industries – Sink or Swim 72
Old Timer Industries Epoxy: Use Coupon Code 'FINDINGSIMON' for FREE SHIPPING Music by E ( Supporting Simon Thank you for watching and liking my videos. I really appreciate your support, and if you’re interested in more, please check out my Patreon for further access to my content and...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 32: Sharpening Edge Tools
Having sharp tools is important. As temps are warming up and we are getting back into the thick of boatbuilding work, we felt this would be an appropriate video. Well kept tools lead to fun, productive and safe work. There is nothing worse than trying to get a job done with the wrong tool or one t...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 31: Final Thickness
We are clawing our way out of winter! Work is getting back on track and what better way to start finalizing our keel timber. We spent the first tentatively "warm" days finishing getting the keel timber to its final thickness along with a couple of outings. We are gearing up for a VERY B...
Removing HUGE Keel Timber from 20ton historic yacht, ALONE! TALLY HO EP20
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Removing the Keel Timber / Bolting the Scarph. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I drive the 3000 miles back to Tally Ho from South Georgia, where Steve Cross has been milling Live Oak for me. I bed and bolt the 6’ Scarph in the new keel timber, ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Dissimilar Metals Part 2
What a winter!.... We felt that this would be a good time to put out our dissimilar metals experiment back to back and then hit it hard next week with a full length video. When mixing metals in a build, there are a lot of things to consider. Not only do the metals interact with each other when subm...
A2A – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Dissimilar Metals and Galvanic action Part 1
Over the winter we decided to try out a little experiment we would share with everyone. While doing our research we heard a lot about the effects of different metals on one another. The nobility of a metal will determine how it reacts to others with differing nobility, leading to the more noble me...
Milling Live Oak in the Deep South – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP19
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Milling Live Oak timbers on Cross Sawmill’s massive homemade bandsaw, in the Deep South. Support; Become a Patron; THIS episode, I am in southern Georgia , and I work with Steve Cross of Cross Sawmill to mill and grade lots of Southern Live Oak (Quercus Virg...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 30: Deadwood and Some Lead
We're still waiting on the weather to start warming up but we can still get ourselves as ready as possible for when it does. We start to work with the lumber that will become our deadwood and we shoot a propane tank to help us melt lead into the major divots on the ballast keel. We also have ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 29: Lead Contamination and our Keel Pour
After the video of our lead keel pour came out, we received a lot of comments regarding the safety of the pour and about concerns or contamination to the surrounding area. We did our best to get information regarding such issues and went as far as calling the EPA number as well a several local agen...