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Closing in on the Shutter Planks – Episode 164 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
The gaps in Arabella's planking are getting much smaller... and soon they will be no more. We are pushing hard to close up the hull with Carolyn's help before she moves on. The shutter planks are a pretty exciting part of the build. There are only two o...
Victoria’s Mast – Episode 153 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
The bronze floors are done! It's a great feeling complete them and be able to move on to even more tasks that get us closer to launch. Steve keeps on with fitting the main's mast step, and Alix gets to work on figuring out the reuse of Victoria's spars. Yo...
Breaking Waves Teaser
A little snippit of our first adventure aboard! Location: British Columbia's gulf islands.
Hoisting a Mainsail | Sail Fanatics
This video explains how to raise the mainsail on a cruising sailboat.
The Preventer Lady | #44 | DrakeParagon Sailing Season 3
There's a buzz in the air, and this time it's not a plane. Land! We can smell it and, despite being a day away, the entire crew is excited! There's still much to do as Mo gets a lesson in setting the sails just as a heavy fog envelops the boat. Will the mi...
ABOUT OUR SAILS – HOW MUCH DID THEY COST?
This is an FTB Extra to accompany Vlog 059 (http://bit.ly/ftb_vlog059) We give you the low-down on how much our sails costs, and chat to Phil about the sail-making process and how he came up with our sail designs. As always this episode has been brought...
NEW SAILS UP! BATTERIES COOKED! Ep 59
We got new sails! We put them up and have a quick chat with Phil from Zoom sails about the process of making them. For the first time we've published two videos concurrently because the other episode is an FTB Extra, and it's all about our sails...and how ...
WINDLASS INSTALLED BUT MORE DISASTERS! Ep 58
We install our Lofrans Tigres windlass but you know for every positive achievement there's a whole bunch of dark clouds hanging over us. The outboard is buggered, the toilet is leaking and now we've cooked our batteries. Will we ever get to leave for Indon...
HOW TO CHOOSE AN ANCHOR WINDLASS. Ep 57
How to choose a windlass. Or, what windlass should we buy to replace our mangled mess at the front of the boat? There's some technical boat maintenance stuff in this episode but there's also some rather splendid drone footage of the beautiful tropical isla...
DISASTER! OUR ANCHOR WINDLASS IS BROKEN! Ep 56
Imagine if this windlass malfunction happened on a remote Indonesian coast? In this episode Jamie reaches the end of his tether when the anchor windlass decides it has had enough. In order to diagnose the problem it has to be removed from the deck, and th...
WORLD’S BIGGEST YACHT, WORLD’S FIRST BAMBOO SCHOONER, AMERICA’S CUP ORIGINS. Ep 55
'Mirabella V' (M5), is the world's largest single-masted yacht, whilst 'Coracle' is the world's first bamboo schooner. And back in olde England Liz discovers where in 1583 Sir Walter Raleigh set off on his third expedition to 'The New World'! In this epis...
MY SAILING SECRET, NEW SAILS & STORM TACTICS… Ep 54
Jamie has a secret. A big sailing secret. Find out what bothers him in this episode. Also we get Phil Auger of Zoom Sails to come and measure Esper for some new sails. In doing so we discover the real state of our current sails, including wears, rips and ...
Flaking the Mainsail, What You Need to Know | Sail Fanatics
This is a brief instructional video explaining how to properly flake the mainsail on a cruising sailboat.