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The Organ Saint Traverse: An Update from New Mexico – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Want to hang out with us? Our monthly live event has been moved to next friday, meaning that if you join the $5/month or higher level of Patreon you'll get the invite in time to see a very special episode of it! https://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella Need...
Stray Current Puts Arabella in Danger – Episode 284 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
As Steve and Robin prepare for a trip to New Mexico for rock climbing, they prepare their DIY wooden sailboat for the time they'll be away. Steve ends up getting into details of Arabella's 12-volt marine electrical system as he chases some possible stray e...
Boat Repairs Among the Windjammers – Episode 283 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
It's time to head to Camden, Maine for some dockside boat repairs among the schooners in this very famous and picturesque pocket harbor. The cranse iron, or bowsprit cap, seems to have been a piece that was cast with imperfections. It did serve Victoria fo...
Riding Out The Storm, Hurricane Lee – Episode 282 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Hurricane while aboard a sailboat! Yes, Hurricane Lee was downgraded to a tropical storm just before it hit, but everyone here on the water prepares for what could be a longer storm rather than a stronger one. Robin and Steve ended up hiding out in Curtis ...
Return to Granby, Everything Must Go – Episode 281 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Why the heck get back to Granby!? When moving aboard a sailboat, one of the biggest parts of the process for living aboard fully is moving all of the stuff of life, your things, to... SOMEWHERE. In our case, that's tools and boat shed into two shipping con...
Other People’s Race Boats – Episode 280 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Solo ocean racing, and the types of boats people use for them, is a world apart from Arabella and our crew here. We're getting ready for our own big adventure in 2025—climbing huge walls in Baffin Island—and see similar care and consideration applied t...
Boat Work: Roller Furler and Lazy Jacks – Episode 279 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
For those of you missing some of the woodworking and boatbuilding projects, we get to some much-anticipated DIY projects while at the mooring in Portland, Maine, such as getting the cherry wood winch bases cut to size, shaped, and installed on the coamings...
The Boat Sails Itself, Without Autopilot – Episode 278 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Get an exclusive @Surfshark deal! Enter promo code ARABELLA for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/arabella 00:00 Intro: Welcome back aboard Arabella 00:29 Rigging project, departing Newburyport, Massachusetts 02:46 Lifting / stowing th...
2 Months on a New Boat, Full Walkthrough – Episode 277 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
00:00:00 Intro, Newburyport update and American Yacht Club 00:01:12 A look at the hull, repainting the waterline 00:04:59 Standing rigging with Dyneema climbing slings 00:07:22 Victoria and her electric outboard motor from ePropulsion, the challenges of a...
Navigating Arabella Up Two Tricky Rivers – Episode 276 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
A week of adventure! We conclude last week's sailing passage from Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Gloucester, Massachusetts, arriving on a mooring at the end of the day. From there, Robin found a sweet intracoastal passage on the Annisquam River,...
Sailing His Own Boat for the First Time – Episode 275 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
For information about our visit to Newburyport's Waterfront Park, please visit our website (link below) and click on the banner at the top of the page. Cheers! Transiting the Cape Cod Canal is something that many New England sailors hold as an eventual "s...
Getting Ready to Sail North – Episode 274 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
What did we get up to in Bristol, Rhode Island? A bit of electrical work, some solar panel installation, sorting out rigging details so we can get to sailing this sailboat, and making a mockup of the hard dodger. Scott, KP, and Satchel are doing all this w...
Best In Show and Motoring to Bristol – Episode 273 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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It’s Definitely Not Sailing – Episode 272 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Join Patreon TODAY to get an invitation for a livestream tour belowdecks TONIGHT at 5 p.m. ET! Sure, she looks all right, but how did this DIY wooden sailboat fare when a professional marine surveyor technically assessed actual details of wooden boat cons...