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Salt & Tar: Ep.132- How Do You Steer That Thing?
This is a Ruth-less episode... I'm out of town with my niece so Garrett tackles come solo projects AND does all the filming! He focuses on the boat's steerage. He shapes and mounts the rudder cheeks as well as transforms an old tiller, donated by a followe...
Building a wooden boat with FIRE! — Sailing Yabá #20
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 20 In this episode we are using oil and fire on our boat!! But don't worry, it's to help her, not to harm her! We are finally installing the first planks, and as they are the garboards and they need to bend and ...
The Mizzen Mast Step – Episode 154 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
With the main mast step finished, it's time to make the mizzen mast step. This one is significantly smaller as it will hold a significantly smaller mast and take less of a load. It feels like we're installing a sculpture as integral part of the boat! It's...
Manoeuvering a schooner with a jack? + building our FIRST PLANK! — Sailing Yabá #19
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 19 In this episode, we show how a huge schooner can be manoeuvred in the dry, using only pulleys and a jack! PLUS: we start building our new planks!! Soon our hull will be like new! We can't wait for that day to...
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...
Salt & Tar: Ep.130- Main Gaff & Mizzen Boom & Gaff
Happy 6th anniversary. March 2015 started this build and 2021 brings us not only our main gaff and mizzen boom and gaff but also our sails! In this episode we complete the ruff shape of the first items but it’ll still be a few months before we see sails....
Our TO DO list just got A LOT bigger! — Sailing Yabá #18
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 18 In this episode we continue destroying our hull only to find out that our TO-DO list just got bigger!! But there's not only destruction here... we also started creating the templates of the new frames, there'...
Mast Step and Alignment – Episode 152 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
With wrapping up the bronze floors comes working on the mast step. This wild looking piece is built up out of live oak and black locust and looks more like a sculpture than a structural element in the boat! We also check alignment on Arabella to see if ev...
How many PLANKS can we keep? NONE!?! — Sailing Yabá #17
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 17 In this episode we start deplanking our rotten and eaten hull! We didn't think deplanking would need to go this far, but, oh well, it did! Not only most planks were eaten by worms but the fresh water infiltra...
Last Bronze Floors and a Mast Step – Episode 151 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
We finally get to finish up the work on the bronze floors. We had about six sets of frames that needed to go in once we removed the molds. These last sets all needed bronze floors made up for them as we couldn't make those on our first go around. That m...
Salt & Tar: Ep.128- My Happy Place
-Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: saltandtarcrew@gmail.com. Let us know your experience and what you’re comfortable doing. We’ll get back to you as soon as w...
Can we SAVE our ENGINE? — Sailing Yabá #16
We are Ben and MP! Recently we decided to purchase a two-masted 70ft wooden schooner in Brazil. The fun detail about our story is that the boat we bought was sinking and relying on many bilge pumps to survive so we had to lift it onto the dry to start a f...
Clean Bilge! – Episode 150 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Building a boat can seem like an incredibly daunting task. One thing that has gotten us through these years is seeing it a lot of little things that need to be done and pieces that need to go together. This episode is very much dedicated to that ideology...
Salt & Tar: Ep.127- New Captain on the Block
Allegra 24 named Freyja. Our buddy's first sailboat. She needs some love and has two major problems; the motor and her companionway leaks. We help Hoffa with one of the two issues. First, though, we had to get all the previous owners' old stuff out and cle...