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Firing Up a 70 Year Old Steam Generator – Episode 214 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Thank you to EcoFlow, who sent us their Delta Mini Portable Power Station to test. We've been wanting to monitor the refrigerator's performance and actual electrical draw, and it's been such a good tool for that. We start this week with the shop itself. It's been a long while ...
Is Your Refrigerator Running? Almost! – Episode 213 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Coach roof (cabin house) carlins are installed this week, and there's probably not much more satisfying than seeing finish go onto interior pieces before they're assembled like big-kid Lego, where they'll live all their days from here on out. Since the surface just above it will be st...
Open House Sunday Live Stream – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
We’re live-streaming from the boathouse during our final Open House. More info on visiting: Sign up for our email newsletter: Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur boat builder building a 38' wooden boat in his backya...
Open House Saturday Live Stream – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
We’re live-streaming from the boathouse during our final Open House. More info on visiting: Sign up for our email newsletter: Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur boat builder building a 38' wooden boat in his backya...
Coach Roof Carlins – Episode 212 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Open House: Come see this wooden boat in person! Get your name or a short message on a plank: We begin by making the locust coach roof carlins identically curved, and then lay them out where they're going to do the best work of framing hatches and adding a whole lot of strength to the entir...
Finding Gold in the Locust Pile – Episode 211 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Open House information: Put your name on a plank: New products hit next week! Sign up for the newsletter to have first dibs on offcuts: Nearly every piece of wood in Arabella, from the backbone to the deck framing, came to this project as a tree. This means it wasn't ordered from the lumber...
Is This a New Way to Fair a Boat Deck? – Episode 210 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
More about our last Open House ever: How could there possibly be ways to do something new while building something as ancient and simple as a wooden boat? We're sure this isn't the first time someone's used a sled to control a tool as it moves along a surface, but as far as we'...
A Tight Squeeze On Deck, Fitting the Centerline Blocking – Episode 209 – Acorn to Arabella
We did a shoutout to a special, potential intern: Spread the word on IG and FB! If you applied last week, we'll be in touch soon. Centerline blocking does one big, important thing, and it's something that's barely noticed below decks: it adds rigidity between deckbeams along the ce...
Putting In the Shipmate & A Visit To MIT – Episode 208 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Apply for our summer 2022 apprenticeship, or pass this link to someone you think would be interested: It's time to make a home for the woodstove, which will get a similar heat-resistant surround as did the Dickinson Newport diesel cabin heater. Tiled surfaces will be both insulating and radia...
Installing Bulkhead and Galley Stove – Episode 207 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
For information about our May 7&8 Open House (our final one!) visit: Evan at MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts finished an important stainless steel surround that serves as the home for the galley stove. That means that in this week's video, in goes the three-burner, propane, Di...
Final Deck Beams & Scouting Launch Sites – Episode 206 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
KP got a week to settle in, and takes on a satisfying task: fitting the last three deck beams now that we're done with major interior installations just below them, and that we're getting everything in order to install the next big things: covering boards and deck planking. We're abou...
Putting In the Bilge Tanks – Episode 205 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Open house May 2022 information is here: The head might be a small space, but there are a lot of details that have required a great deal of planning and critical decision-making. Steve discusses and installs the AirHead, the sink that will work with a foot pump, and the watermaker components and w...
New Crew Member, Meet KP – Episode 204 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
For more information about Open House and to get updates, visit this page: We've had a history of talented, kind, supportive crew here. They're more than employees, of course. KP came to us by way of a long-time friendship with Annie B. They met in high school, and somehow both ended up ...
It’s All In His Head – Episode 203 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Learn more about our VERY LAST open house or about visiting Arabella here: Now that we've got the various stainless tanks and heat shields here at the shop, it's time to start doing this and that around Arabella that we put aside as we waited for their arrival. The starboard side's ...
Installing the Water Tanks – Episode 202 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Last call for this very important fundraiser: Only a couple of days left, and it's crucial to the coming year and the work we need to do to prepare for launch. Thank you for your support! The water tanks have been fetched from MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where our talented m...
Old Bungs & New Tile – Episode 201 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Get the A2A Community crest on a tee or sweatshirt: We save even the smallest or thinnest pieces of mahogany from Victoria just in case a piece of scrap wood might be helpful. As we looked to fill the bungs and finish the settee locker, also salvaged from Victoria, we used not just the material, b...
200th Episode Livestream SHINDIG! – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Join Steve, Akiva, Annie B, and special guests for Live from the Boat Shed 15. Who will stop by? Who will call in? See you there on February 11 at 5 p.m. ET. (Want to see the other episodes in our Live Archive? There’s 14 hours’ worth on Patreon!) ---------------------------------------------------...
All Hands on Deck, 6 Years of A2A – Episode 200 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Livestream celebration, 5 p.m. ET: A2A Community Tee: Visiting us in Granby today? Here's more info: Comment when you see the moment you started here with Arabella! Who the heck even is Ben? You'll see our video editor! Learn about our new boat carpenter, KP. How long has Annie B been...
Cables and Cold Days – Episode 199 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Set a reminder for the live steam on February 11 visit: Visiting February 11 here in Granby? The info you need: NEW BONFIRE T-SHIRT CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF NEXT FRIDAY! It's cold. Very cold. But there's plenty of work to do that's not hindered by it. Some days we can't get out to ...
All Together Now – Episode 198 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
To get yourself a reminder when we go live on February 11 visit: Visiting February 11 here in Granby? Please read this: In this episode, we fabricate, modify, and install a bunch of hardware for the companionway steps, which have connections to the refrigerator, bilge stringers, sole, and cabin h...
The Companionway Ladder & A Big Update – Episode 197 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Visit here if you think you can help with our rigging hardware: New Tiers on Patreon! So many updates this week! What's cooking for 2022? Did we just reveal a bit about our launch schedule? What parts are needed to button up the plans for rig and sails? Where's Alix? It's been a h...
Built Like a Tank – Episode 196 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Come along with us to MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Evan Kelly takes the three dimensional templates we built a couple of weeks back and turns them into stainless steel water tanks. In this episode, we'll follow one tank through that process, and you'll get to see it m...
Finally Back to Woodworking! – Episode 195 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Don't worry, electrical geeks and systems nerds, there's still plenty to do on the wiring front. We have to put that on pause a bit until we know what the clearance is around the finished water tanks. Until then, let's keep screaming along on the interior. This week, a couple of locke...