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How to Install Thru Hull Fittings – TruDesign | Sailing Sunday
We replaced every Thru Hull and Seacock on Sunday with TruDesign. This is a simple step-by-step guide on how we did it.
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 82: Working on Prop Shaft Fittings
We are getting farther up the hull with the planking and as we do so, we are nearing the point at the stern where the propeller shaft will go through. We need to get this hole bored before we plank past it because we are going to need to be able to align ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 80: Sawn Frames and Bronze Floors
In last week's episode, we went into detail about how we are fabricating the forward sawn floors. From how we are taking measurements using tick sticks and a template to how we are cutting our rolling bevel down the frames without a ship's saw. In this ep...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 65: Installing the Bronze Floors
The prep is over with and it is finally time to install the bronze floors! We have invested so much time, energy and money in these and it is such a gratifying feeling to finally see them put in place. In the end, the installation went very smoothly and ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 64: Setup for Bronze Floor Installation
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 these beauties in their places for good! Each faying surface will need treatment before we can place...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 62: Fitting the Engine Beds
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 the floors ready to start fabricating the supports for the engine beds. Since everything fits in...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 61: Tacking Floors and Steaming Frames
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. Before we can finish making the rest of the floor timbers though, we need to replace the frames that w...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...