Watch Sailing & Boating Adventures Around the World tagged “Bronze”

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 60: Forward and Midship Floors

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 build' by Guy Clark. The bronze floors are a tedious amount of work. Bending the compound curve...

May 03, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:21:58

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 59: Clean up and Bronze Floors

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 Victoria. As we're looking to save as much as possible, we had to strip all the planking of its f...

Apr 26, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:21:40

Sailing Avocet: Head Refit Part 1

Step 1: Demolition! When we first bought Avocet, she checked off all the things we wanted in a boat except 1: having a shower stall. Chris assured me that we would have enough room to build our own, but once we got into it we realized that not everything w...

Apr 23, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:10:36

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 57: Bronze Floors

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 following the original plans or making slight adjustments. Each decision has pros and cons. Whe...

Mar 29, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:29:49

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 56: Planking Material and Floor Timbers

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 here. A lot goes into this project behind the scenes that we don't talk about. Most of that is the m...

Mar 15, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:35:05

Cleaning bronze on boats

Tips for cleaning Brass and bronze. Our boat has loads so I've tried all sorts of things to make the job easy, all the vinegar - lemon juice concoctions and all the pastes and creams. Brasso was my favorite for years, but now I have two things that cut cle...

Mar 10, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:05:15

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 53: Framed and Disassembling

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 wondering if it would be worth buying cedar or if we were better off planking in our beautiful white oak...

Feb 01, 2019
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:17:26

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 50: Homemade Copper Rivets!

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 is also saving us thousands of dollars! We also wanted to address some concerns people had with ...

Dec 21, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:26:19

Seacocks: Bronze v plastic? Groco v Marelon? – Ep 124

We went shopping with American McGee and discovered a few things about seacocks. Subscribe for more sailing videos: https://ftbyoutube.page.link/subscribe Bronze v plastic? Groco v Marelon? Is DZR ever OK? Why don't our seacocks fit our skin fittings? What...

Sep 06, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:18:44

51. Installing Our Shiny New Portholes | Learning the Lines – DIY Sailing

Ports, portholes, portlights, windows, whatever you want to call them... our boat has TEN of them. For a 32 foot boat, that's a lot of ports! Subsequently, it's a big job to replace them all and this is our vlog of the process. We're super happy with the...

Aug 07, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:11:44

50. Bulkhead Replacement and Major Portlight Upgrade | Learning the Lines – DIY Sailing

In this vlog we remove our head and holding tank, replace our main bulkhead, and start dry fitting the big ABI bronze portlights in the main salon of Freebie. Livestream will be Sunday, August 5th, at 2pm EST. See you there! -----------------------------...

Jul 31, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:13:50

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; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support-tally-ho Become a Patron; http://www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco ----- This episode, I drive the 3000 miles back to Tally H...

Apr 21, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:17:45

Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: The Good, The Bad and The Bronze

Last week we shared Victorias trip home with us. Now we'd like to show you what she's got to offer. She a veritable treasure trove! We go through some of the bronze that we have already acquired and take you on a tour of what Victoria still has attached ...

Dec 15, 2017
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:30:47

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