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I Bought a Wooden Ship… Then Needed a Lumber Van
Head to MarinerSpirit.com to support this project! I was about to spend $5000 on roughly 200 board feet of white oak for the restoration of Lady Hawk, our 1934 Danish wooden ship. Instead, we somehow ended up with MORE lumber… and a 1971 Dodge Tradesman van. So in this episode, we head north to C...
Arabella Gets a Makeover – Episode 169 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
As we've been finishing the rest of the planking on the port side, we have had groups of helpers lend a hand to clean up Arabella's interior. Most recently, David and his son, Grant, card-scraped the interior and applied Danish Teak Sealer to planks and frames. Boy, what a difference this ...
Bracing for the Sheer Plank – Episode 167 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Getting the nib-ends of these full-length planks fitted into the rabbet fore and aft is one of the hardest tasks of planking Arabella. Since we don't have any wiggle room to move fore or aft, the cuts need to be dead-on for the planks to sit correctly. Additionally, since shutter planks are san...
Installing the Oak Shutter Planks – Episode 166 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
It's a big moment here in the Acorn to Arabella boathouse. We have been steadily working on closing up the hull and now the oak shutters are going in. After these are installed, we will only have six more planks to go. Two cedar strakes will lead up to the final black locust sheer strakes. Rig...
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 of them, and they need to be perfec...
Cutting for Propeller / Boring for Prop-Tube ( Wooden Boat Rebuild / EP80)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Cutting for Propeller / Boring for Prop-Tube (EP80) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 80. Cutting the Prop aperture and boring out the hole for the stern-tube are intimidating jobs - you only get one chance to get it right. But it’s easier to tackle th...
BoatBuilding – Casting Bronze Floors (EP75)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Casting Bronze Floors (EP75) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 75. In this extra-length episode, Pete and Clark show the process of making individual patterns for each of the floors, laminating thin strips of ply into the boat and then shaping and scul...
BoatBuilding – Restoring the Transom (EP74)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Restoring the Transom (EP74) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 74. In this episode I work on repairing and reinstalling Tally Ho’s original transom timbers. Being Teak, they have escaped rot, but have a lot of damaged areas and holes that need to be fi...
BoatBuilding – Finishing the Deck Structure! (EP73)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Finishing the Deck Structure! (EP73) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 73. This is the day - the big reveal! With the deck structure fastened permanently into the Beam Shelf, we can remove the temporary cross-palls and finally see Tally Ho’s internal s...
BoatBuilding – Bilge Stringers / Oak problems! (EP72)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Bilge Stringers / Oak problems! (EP72) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 72. In this episode we face a major dilemma - having found that one of the White Oak logs had porous grain (bad news!) I have to make the painful decision of whether or not to re...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 104: The Last Oak Plank!
Steve made the last oak plank! Yes, we know, we've said it before (and might say it again... haha). But we are planning for this to be the last full length oak plank we put on the hull. After setting up our new planer with Joe and Grandpa, while I was in Costa Rica, it was now time to star...
East Coast Oak and a Pink Fireman (EP66)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - East Coast Oak and a Pink Fireman (EP66) Support; Become a Patron; ---- EPISODE 66. Back to work on Tally Ho! After returning to the West Coast, I start by planing and bolting the beam shelf scarps joints. In the process, I buy a vintage pipe threading mach...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 88: Setting our First Homemade Rivets!
We made our own 1/4 inch square copper rivets to hang Arabella's planks and we are now to the point where we actually get to use them! This is such an exciting time for us as we have planned and worked so hard to make these. We finally get to see the fruits of our labor in their final place. ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 87: Epoxy Tests
After our glue failure on the scarf joints for the planks, we also had some glue failure on the graving pieces. This time though, it was with a new and good batch of Resorcinol. So, we were not quite sure what the problem was at first. We later realized that the clamping pressure was being lost du...
WOODEN BOAT REBUILD – Shaping the Cutwater / More Timber! (EP57)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Shaping the Cutwater / More Timber! Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 57. In this episode, I cut the rest of the shape of the Cutwater into the Stem, using a chainsaw. Then I plane it smooth, and shape the transition to the square stem-head with a gri...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 78: The Last Oak Broad Strakes
Planking has been a very fun challenge though a bit of a challenge it has been. Learning to fit the oak planks to each other has its intricacies. We need to make sure the plank fits well fore and aft but also that the bevels match so that we can put in a good bead of cotton caulking. All of this ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 74: Installing the Port side Garboard
It's on to the port side Garboard! We wanted to show a little bit more detail on what goes into installing these big planks. It can be a little bit of a fight to get them to fit just right. This one also had a little imperfection that needed to be dealt with before installation. We have som...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 52: Cutting the Aft Rabbet
As we steam in Arabella's frames we have now reached the aft section of the build and need to cut the rabbet up the sides of the stern posts to determine where our frame sockets should land. Once cut we spend a day steaming in frames with a couple snags along the way. ------------------------...
Chopping off the end of a finger! – Boatbuilding & Woodwork (TH EP38)
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Losing a Finger / Framing Progress - Support; Become a Patron; ----- EPISODE 38. Well, I’ve done something very silly and cut the end of my finger. Why would I do that, you may ask?! Well, it was all going a little too well, so I thought it was time to add...
64. Fiberglassing Upside-Down Over Plywood | Learning the Lines – DIY Sailing
"I'd rather not do that again." Laying up fiberglass upside-down is definitely a tricky, messy process. The stringers we laid up in this episode will serve as a mounting point for the new headliner. We're super excited to cover up all this bare fiberglass with vinyl beadboard! I...
Installing New Oak Frames into a 1910 Wooden Boat – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP29
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Installing Frames / Calculating Bevels. Support; Become a Patron; ------ EPISODE 29. This episode I install the first pair of Frames into Tally Ho, notching the Live Oak very slightly into the Purpleheart Keel timber. I also explain how I calculate and tran...
Building Boat Frames using Traditional Tree-Nails – Rebuilding Tally Ho EP28
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – Assembling Frames with Treenails. Support; Become a Patron; ----- This episode, I work with some volunteers to cut out more futtocks, and assemble the first pair of Frames using Southern Live Oak - to replace the old English Oak frames that Tally Ho was bui...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 39: Aft Deadwood and Moving Lumber
After seeing the fore deadwood and the milling in detail, we thought it would be interesting to see another side of these two processes. In this video we show how, where and why we stacked all the lumber from milling. We also get into making the Aft deadwood and show the shaping process in a virtu...