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Sailing Avocet | FINALLY Painting Our Sailboat!
In this video you will see the crew of Avocet combat difficult weather issues, deal with delays caused by COVID, and overcome mental challenges presented by the situations at hand. From sanding the hull to FINALLY painting the topsides, we finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Hard work, blo...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 119: Getting Ready for a Big Change
This round we tackle the remainder of the planking rabbet, make and hang some cedar and start prepping framing stock. It won't be long until the molds come out and the remaining 14 frames get bent in! Thanks for watching and following our crazy journey! ---------------------------------------...
Bird’s Mouth Spar Construction, A Whisker Pole for Julia
This is the process of building a wooden whisker pole for the ketch Julia using the bird's mouth construction method. This technique works well for masts, booms, and other spars.
Salt & Tar: Episode 95-Preparing the Mizzen
We've also been keeping our Instagram current. Yay technology! For real-time updates here's the link: a HUGE thank you to everyone that has purchased items off our wishlist. You are giving us a big step forward in the projects to come. We've never had such nice tools. You all a...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 118: Steaming Frames and Lining Off
We get all steamed up and tweak some steam bent white oak frames so they lay more fair with the planking. Measurements are taken off the hull and the shape/location of the cedar planks get determined. It's a whole bunch of hot oak and middle school mathematics. Thanks for watching and if yo...
Salt & Tar: Episode 94-Mizzen We’ve Been Missin’ (Reclaimed Mast)
Vagabond was an Atkin design "Little Maid of Kent" Schooner The journal found me 7 years ago and I held onto it in hope the owner would one day return. Little did I know, Garrett and I would build a boat and Vagabond's main mast would become the mizzen for our homebuilt ketch. Severa...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 117: We Ran Out of Dry Oak, Now What?
In this episode we install some more oak planks, remove the stairs to the second floor so we can keep planking and run out of dry oak for planking stock. Don't worry though, there are many ways to keep moving forward while the recently milled oak cures. If you are interested in some of the or...
Salt & Tar: Episode 93 – In-Water Rudder Repair
Nothing sucks more than after a fresh bottom job your first sail runs you into a submerged tree. Garrett and Memo, being the handy quick-on-their-feet thinkers, drop the rudder, straighten it, reinstall it, and are sailing before the week's over! Memo has a Morgan 30 but you may recognize him f...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 116: Steve Launches His First Boat
This round we re-stock the lumber pile with some glorious white oak, ash and some hickory. Steve designs, builds and launches a quick and dirty pram for fishing adventures on the local brook and Arabella gets some more oak planks added to her hull. It's a jam packed episode, enjoy! ---------...
Salt & Tar: Episode 92-Hottest Day of 2020 Thus Far🌞
Happy Video Thursday! Spring is here and that means more workable days than not. It's always exciting to watch the weather change. It adds new motivation in the air. But then, we realize just how tired we are. It's been a long project. So this year we're trying to take some days off! ...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 115: Picking Up the Pace
In this installment we get some much appreciated assistance and really motor along with the oak planking. With three of us in the shop two could work on Arabella while the third picked timber and made planks. We procure some big ole logs that we were told was walnut but turned out to be ash (still ...
Salt & Tar: Episode 91-Brummel Splice for the Bottom Dead Eye
Come join us back on the boat as we continue our rigging. Our main focus is how we're going to secure the bottom dead eye to the chainplate. Instead of a metal strap or bar we're mixing in some modern material. Layering up Dyneema then serving it together with low friction rings. If you wa...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 114: Getting Back on Track
After numerous challenges and setbacks we are finally picking up the pace and getting into a solid groove! The replacement planks all go onto the hull quickly and smoothly compared to the other planks. We also have to get a bit inventive so we can hit the same screw holes in the bronze strapping wi...
Salt & Tar: Episode 90-Turning Dead Eyes
Keeping to our salty vision we turn up our dead eyes. We are a gaff rig ketch so we couldn't very well have turnbuckles, we NEED dead eyes. This video spans over a year and two different cameras so, apologies, the sound was difficult to get right on the episode. I hope you enjoy the process! C...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 113: Deadeyes and Hanging Planks
This round we look to the future and start doing a little rigging preparation by roughing out some deadeye blanks. We also keep chugging along with planking, the Alaskan sawmill rig gets some good use as does the 27" thickness planer. The culled cedar planks made some most excellent patterns ...
Salt & Tar: Episode 89-Who’s Charlie
"I got a plan, I have a plan," said Charlie, and 24 years later he proved it. For obvious reasons, we love hearing from those who have actually built a boat from the ground up. I wanted to share Charlie's story because it so closely mirrors our own. No matter if it takes 5 or 25 years...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 112: Back to Oak and Other Odd Jobs
In this episode we hit the lowest point yet on the build and remove the cedar planks we worked so hard to install onto Arabella. The oak pile got sorted and inventoried to see if we even have enough oak to plank Arabella with it. The replacement planks are found in the oak stores and are cut from...
A2A- Journey of a Wooden Boat – Bonus Content: Exploring in the Canoe, No Boat Building!
No boat building in this video! Since the Open House got canceled and a birthday party could not occur, Steve spent his 35th birthday doing a little exploring via canoe. There is not even a glimpse of the boatyard or Arabella, just a quiet ride down a tiny brook, getting lost in the marsh, scaring s...
Salt & Tar: Episode 88-Because it’s Badass
Alright. We've raised our main mast. Still one more mast to go and countless other projects. It's always weird after accomplishing a milestone. A sort of "now what" moment. Then you realize, "Everything else!" That's what. We get back to a few other started project...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 111: Putting Cedar to the Test
This round we dive into some plank repair on the hull and fix the cedar that exploded on us. Talk briefly about a new plank fastener we are using in preparation for installing what Atkin calls the bilge ceiling. We steam in the cedar plank after repair so it hopefully won't erupt into splint...
Salt & Tar: Episode 87-Glorious Day to Raise the Main
- A glorious day indeed. Our 40 foot main mast is on the boat! Rediviva is a ketch rig but only our main was ready, the mizzen mast will come later. A huge thank you to the marina for making this day go so smoothly. My mom was able to make it and Reid, Garrett’s brother, brought the beer and did an...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 110: Will Our Boat be Water Tight?
In this installment we continue fitting and hanging some cedar, we discuss why we are planking from the keel to the sheer as well as what we expect the oak to do as it swells after launch. We wrap up with extending the planking rabbet and fastening another plank that gave us a real big surprise! -...
Acorn to Arabella – Journey of a Wooden Boat – Episode 109: Cedar Planks and Butt Blocks
In this installment we have a riveting good time attaching a cedar plank to the hull. We then install a pair of black locust butt blocks in Arabella to support the nib ends of the oak stealers. Another cedar plank gets sliced out of the raw board and it's many knots repaired. Finally a notic...