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For the latest on Victoria, the tender that Bob Emser is building, watch here:
The deck on this wooden sailboat is different from its hull in a few key ways, and because the very dry pine (our traditional, quarter-sawn, carefully selected, best boat decking material) is 2" wide and almost as ...
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Now that we've got all of our boat decking down, it's time to caulk with cotton, and we go through some practice runs and observations when it comes to this important part of finishing our DIY wooden boat deck.
Caulking...
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Steve and Robin take you rock climbing in Baxter State Park in Maine while KP and Aiden, our summer intern, create and glue up cedar strips to bu...
We arrive at Lacrosse Island and check out the beautiful mangroves.
Magnus discusses our solar setup.
We make our way to Wyndham to get fuel and water. We explore the little port and find a lovely museum.
Then it’s back onboard to sail north up to Still Bay and Lacrosse Island.
We encounter the ...
Long Live Victoria!! Last call for these: Check out Bob Emser's latest video about making a half-hull model of Victoria, the Tender:
We've been preparing the boat decking for quite some time. Essentially, it's boat deck flooring, and so will take a lot of wear and tear from above, ...
Check out Bob Emser's latest about Victoria, the Tender:
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:13 Protecting the boat decking material
1:35 Fairing and shaping the stem
2:28 The worm shoe and fairing to the garboard plank
4:23 What to do about the gaps in the seams throughout the planking; why we ha...
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The sheer strake gets its jewelry (which is what Annie B calls bronze hardware... or boat hardware of any kind, really) and gets a couple of o...
Our boat feels naked without her anchor, chain, and solar panels. This is a big boat project episode. Kate has fun with epoxy and fixes up the dinghy in her bikini, Curtis installs new solar panels, our re-galvanized anchor and chain arrive and we inspect it for the first time.
The upgrades continu...
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Our wooden boatbuilding project is all about boat decking this week! King planks and covering boards are alm...
King planks and covering boards are so essential to the longevity of wooden boat decking, it warrants the caution and care that we've taken to get here. The covering boards are both "glued" and screwed, albeit with a wood glue called 4200, which can be removed with heat when maintenan...
Lisa and Matt disconnect their sailboat from land to experience life on anchor. Join them as they share the 5 things they've learned.
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Surprisingly to some, paint is one of the many boat systems we have to account for on Arabella. Each part of this DIY wooden sailboat is carefully considered as we paint, varnish, oil, or even leave something bare... all decisions are intentional and carefully calculated with easy maintenance and lo...
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When it comes to scarfing the covering boards, there are three approaches to "Hide-a-butt" scarves! Many hands in the shop make boat building more fun...and more saw...
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Robin gives us a glimpse of this channel's adventure content to come, but we begin with covering boards and lumber organization, specifically, for the deck...
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Covering boards are coming closer to their final shape. Decision time again! The toe rail, covering boards, and stanchion bases all have shapes that affect each other, meaning...
Matt and Lisa leave Marathon and go outside of the Barrier Reef for a few nights to skinny dip and dive Looe Key in the Florida Keys. Learning that boat life entails projects that take longer than expected. Sailing Vessel Bye Felicia is finally ready to be tested offshore. Join the crew they throw o...
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It's a special event to launch a ship, and though she's too small to call her one, this 38' wooden sailboat will be launched in a place where 600-ton ships can be launched. When see Arabel...
We went live with Bob Emser from The Art of Boatbuilding and with John Harris of Chesapeake Light Craft on Friday, June 24 at The WoodenBoat Show. We announced that Bob will be building our wooden tender (dinghy) and John helped us with downsizing the plans for building a small boat.
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As we prepare for the boat decking, which can also essentially be thought of as the boat deck flooring, there is a lot of preparation for the lumber involved. Everything in wooden boatbuilding starts here: milling, milling, milling.
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Our steam woes are over as we repurpose a familiar fire setup to generate steam the old-fashioned way: a big pot on a big fire. Do you work on steam g...
This episode covers the last two planks being installed. Watch the full recorded livestream of the whiskey plank here:
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People make a big deal out of the whiskey pl...
We went live as we put the last plank on Arabella. This is a big moment of celebration, a milestone for the build as we carry on toward launch in 2023. The whiskey plank is called so because it is the last plank on the boat, completing the hull structure, and so it calls for a a celebration, traditi...
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Of the final three planks, the sheer strake (plank) goes on first. Made of locust, it can sustain the knocks and bumps of dock approaches or rafting (two boats tying up to one another) and defines the shape of the cedar strakes bel...
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We start this week with the shop itself. It's been a long while ...
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