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Salt & Tar: Ep.173- Chasing Leaks
I’m going to test your attention span with this one. It’s long with quite a bit of talking as we discover some not so lovely issues with our 40 year old motor. The previous owner called her King of the Shit we might be changing this to King of taking a...
More from the Boat Show Booths — Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
We've got three booth visits for you, and exciting ones at that: Sea Frost refrigeration, Mantus Marine's anchor swivel and chain hook, and a nifty tool demo at the beginning. After building the refrigerator and having it so close to finished, we're glad...
A Visit Aboard Calypso – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Here's the rest of the conversation. We broadcast an earlier live video— https://youtu.be/uZkFNjgkezQ — in which you can see Anne's friend Nica making fantastic soup and sandwiches aboard Calypso in Spa Creek. After that, we had a nice conversation wit...
Boat Electrical Systems, First Steps – Episode 194 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
Gratitude to Bluetti for sending along this unit and solar panels for us to test in the shop. See details for the AC200 Max: https://bit.ly/3pr9XK0 THERE'S A VIDEO EVERY DAY THIS WEEKEND. SUBSCRIBE! DON'T MISS THEM. Prepare to nerd out about some of the ...
Salt & Tar: Ep.172- Bending the Mizzen
Bending a sail: to secure a sail to a spar before hoisting. Bend On ~ To tie onto or fasten. Garrett completes the last of the changes and additions to the boom and gaff. Persevering through the cold, damp weather. Then together we work on permanently secu...
What If This Doesn’t Work? – Episode 193 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
What a payoff! Layers and layers of all sorts of foam, 'glass, epoxy, and fairing compound have come to this big reveal of how this refrigerated chest will look when it goes into the boat—covered in contrasting cherry wood. Before then, though, it did se...
Salt & Tar: Ep.171- Lighted Boat Parade
My sister, Ellen, and her husband, Casey, join us in a little holiday celebration. This is the first ever lighted boat parade that Garrett and I have ever participated in and it was a ton of fun. We even got second place! Thanks for watching everyone! ~R...
Norna Needs a Captain – Episode 192 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
After all the fiberglass, foam, and fairing compound from the last few weeks, we get to the pretty stuff for the custom refrigerator (oh heck maybe with a bit more of all of that, too): the drop-in lids are topped with cherry and cherry burl, and they're m...
Salt & Tar: Ep.170- Ocean Medicine
I could stare at the ocean indefinitely. We got so lucky with the day and so lucky that one of our volunteers lives close enough to take us sailing! Michael, who has done our ratlines among other things, has a Bristol Channel Cutter 28 in Pillar Point Harb...
Sealing Up the Fridge – Episode 191 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
There are a lot of steps to each of the things we do on Arabella, especially in the interior, and between those multiple paint coats drying, that epoxy curing, and intense reading about 12 V DC electrical systems, there's plenty to do around and about to p...
Salt & Tar: Ep.169- Another Sail!
Excited to get another sail we jump into getting the changes on the mizzen boom and gaff done. The episode leaves us watching paint and soup dry. Can’t wait to mount the davits and absolutely can’t wait to get every sail fully rigged up! Leave a comm...
A Little Help From the Masters – Episode 190 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
"Before the snow flies," is a busy time around a farm, and this year it involves improvements to the shed, fixing Akiva's platform, and doing a few other labor-intensive tasks for which we had a passionate group of volunteers to help with. Thank you very m...
Salt & Tar: Ep.168- Stackin’ Dimes
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 we...
Bringing Home the Fiberglass – Episode 189 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
The finishing touches go onto the shower pan, which gets a drain installed, and the anchor locker, which gets an outlet for gunk that might make its way via the anchor chain. Two-part epoxy paint serves as yet another waterproof barrier for these pieces, w...