Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 49: Bedding the Frames
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Winter is coming and there is always something to do. We worked on getting Victoria buttoned up for the winter and hosted a middle school class for a field trip. With all that out of the way and frames well sanded and oiled, it was time to bed and screw in the frames.
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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38' wooden boat in their backyard: designer William Atkin's Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel's gaff rig. These videos follow the journey from tree felling, to lumber milling, to lofting, to the lead keel pour and beyond-sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when they will travel and learn to cruise aboard the boat that they've built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.
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This is one of my favorite episodes. The most fun and joy in my life was inspiring young people.
I wonder how many of those young minds will remember that day for the rest of their lives. Very, very cool.
Your learning curve is visible and relevant to each new task. You are learning
For fecksake it’s lookin like a boat dem screws went in sweet very satisfying can’t wait for planks don’t forget ya penny under the mast
People asked for a more candid video.
You cannot get any more candid than "one, two, thr...HOLLY SHIT".
She is looking beautiful. I'd also bet those kids had a blast too.
That frame jumping ship did surprise me!
Super Kudos on the class visit. WAY COOL
I have been watching with interest as I have stood by the construction of a number of steel vessels. One comment I would make is that you do not want to bolt down, any equipment such as your engine, that needs alignment until after she has been in the water for a while and takes up the final shape.
Some how your channel showed up in my recommended videos December of 2020 and I have been binge-watching from the beginning. I love DIY topics and you have a great story. You both contribute in such a unique way, great teamwork. I was so relieved to see the use of expert consultants, gentry crane, personal safety equipment...Alix wearing boots, haha. I am excited to catch up to where you are today. Keep it up.
Episodes getting better and better, and that's not just because Arabella's becoming boatier and boatier.
You are building not just a boat, but a wealth of information for the next generation of builders to pull from. Good on you guys for doing it.
Wow! You guys aren't building a sailboat. You guys are building a world class sailing ship! My gosh, your skills blow me away. Wish I lived closer to you and I would come up from Texas and sweep up sawdust for you! I'm 77 years old and am hoping to live long enough to see your ship sailing the seven seas! Kudos!
Nice timelapses!
You guys are awesome.
Videos have been great!
Well this is a great day for you guys...Landmark I would say. You started setting the ribs. The ship is starting to taking real shape. How proud you two must be and well deserved. I am just so glad you are taking us all along for the journey. Thanks!
All I could think of is how satisfying it must’ve been for both of you - this was all yours to enjoy. An epic moment in the build. Really, really well done
Looking great
They were.......................... Magnificent...............
It's starting to look like a real boat! I envy you two. You're doing a great job.
Thanks guys! It's a real pleasure watching a wooden boat being built well.
Another use for the toilet wax ring - fantastic re-tasking of already produced product - NICE!!!! Honestly, never would have thought of waxing the screws!! Learning so much by watching these videos - Thanks Gents!!
You're my favorite boat channel.
Thanks!
Another great video Alix. Once again great explanations without over explaining. I loved that you are taking the time for the young student visits. I can see you developed a complete lesson plan Steve. You're doing us all a great favor.
Thanks!
Keep up the good work. Your making one of the best shipwrights " Louis Sauzedde" proud.
=)
Alix, your videos have never been & never will be boring or tedious! Even if you just pump out a bunch of time-lapse sequences with a little narration when you can squeeze in the time I will still enjoy every second of what you create.
Great video guys. I watched wooden boat building for years on TH-cam and your and Leo’s by far have the most detail. I know can build my own boat in my dreams. Please keep up the awesome work Thank you.
Arabella is going to be a beautiful boat. You're doing a really good job.
Not only are you guys building a boat, but now you're dismantling one too!
Guys. Firstly thanks for all of your efforts with the videos. I love the idea about going with a gaff rig. Traditional look-yes! My wife and I have been cruising for nine years, and there are still an amazing amount of wood boats still around. Keep up the awesome work! Cheers, Ray
You can really see how big she is going to be wow, The workmanship is staggering ,
Nice to see you back out in the shop, Alix. Your editing and music for the setting of the frames was mesmerizing.. Good stuff.
Lookin Good
Wow, I need to get up earlier-over 380 comments in one day! Alix, boring is a one hour class on electromagnetic fields, five days a week. What you and Stephen are doing is far more enjoyable than that by at least one hundred times. It is a good thing you are doing with the local community. Those kids will remember what you showed them for a lot longer than most of their other subjects. Arabella is looking more beautiful everyday. Thank you both for another informative video.
*_over a third of those kids were asleep_*
As far as the standard/slotted fasteners, I'd have gone with keyed torx and just filled the head with a dense wax after installing.
Society's moved away from slotted for a reason- Stripping the head is astonishingly easy to do, and once you've ramped the slot, removing it is nigh impossible. More points of contact between the tool and the fastener means more points required to fail/round before stripping the entire head out. I've only rounded a torx once, and that was a rounded tool that caused it. Fresh tools never do.
You are still an inspiration. Years on and i still look forward to your progress.
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying following the journey!
You boys are doing an awesome job. What you lack in experience you more than make up for in your researched and well thought out intelligent approach to each step. Wish I could give you two thumbs up instead of one.
Alix, your filmmaking is as pretty as your boat building. Outstanding man.
im on the edge of my seat, every episode is a cliff hanger, cant wait to see more
Guys: fantastic video! So exciting to see the progress and the boat starting to take shape. Alix, I thought the timelapses were awesome and you used them to tell the story very effectively. Can't wait for the next episode!
This episode took me away to a fantasy place. The music was perfect, and the montage of the frames going in had me daydreaming of all the adventures you've taken me on so far. I am once again reminded of why I subscribed to your channel.
I got the same thing going my father lives on a steel sail boat and we are working to get it ready for a journey we want to go on in a few years I can't image how good it will be
You prolly dont give a shit but does anyone know of a way to get back into an instagram account..?
I somehow forgot my account password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!
@Landry Dominic instablaster =)
@Merrick Benton thanks for your reply. I found the site on google and I'm in the hacking process atm.
Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Merrick Benton it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thanks so much, you really help me out!
She is really starting to look a lot more like a ship and less like a prototype frame! Thank You for letting us follow along and enjoy the process. My late Father would have loved your project. He subscribed to the Wooden Boat magazine back in the day and was quite a woodworker (hobby, profession was MSME Stanford) who eventually moved to making acoustic guitars.
Your videos always make my day. To watch people create something that they are passionate about is an amazing thing.
I look forward to continue watching all that still has to come.
This was a great video. The pacing, the music, the balance between informal discussion, prepared instruction, and montage was perfect. Thanks for all the work you put into it. My day is off to a great start after watching it.
Good work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
your videos are great the way they are, they have honesty and decency, go you good thing
I am impressed with the rate of progress you are making. I hope that the planking goes as smoothly. Great job guys!
Wow! What an inspiration you guys are. Just love what you are doing and it all seams basic woodwork gone extremely large. Fantastic. Wish I could pop over from UK and see it for real. Looking forward to the next videos.
I could watch this story over again. I love it! I honestly could have watched a few more hours of that. You've got love all the way out in Utah
Love the documentation, love the inspiration, and love the build, period! You guys rock!
Another great video! Already excited for the next one too!.. I can't imagine how anxious you guys must be!
The bedding compound looks like peanut butter! LOL
looking very boaty!! love how its coming together! great work and thanks for sharing!
You guys make it look easy, can't wait for the next episode.
Wow guys she is realy coming together! I get excited wating an watching your vidoes ! god knows how you guys feal actually building her you must be over the moon ! Great work as always 👍👍cant wate till next up date .
I think i have that exact bit brace(hand drill for lamans) . Seriously its ancient and has exact wood finish and shape. Cool. Gotta get my old antique tools to work
It is a oldie but a goodie!
Awesome. She rapidly becomes more shippy with each episode now.
Obviously there is more than one way to build a wooden boat. Your attention to detail and craftsmanship are noted. You will have a fine vessel when you are completed. Others on the net could learn from you. Your vessel will have Good Bones
Awesome
I am enjoying the film's your doing it's very educational an also enjoyable to watch how you use the wood to shape into a boat . Well done .
YeeHaw, I cam almost picture the waves crashing across your bow. Looking good guys.
Blissful
The music put me to sleep. I watched again after I woke up. 😁
Love your videos. They are an inspiration to all makers. My father was a builder and it is great to see other applications for the knowledge that he passed to me. Maybe one day i might do a project this big. Thank you.
I hate to be "that guy" but when drilling, you're not pulling the bit out far enough to let the wood get off the bit. So its heating up the wood that is stuck on the drill bit and thus making it more difficult to get that last inch or so drilled. It will also shorten the life of the bit from the heat. Love this project, and look forward to every episode. You guys rock!
Thanks for the tip!
Another great video, watched this while waiting for a scarf joint to dry on my very much smaller boat project. Pretty sure you guys partly inspired my to actually do it.
Glad we could help nudge you to begin!
Great video fellas, I've been hording this till I had time to give it my undivided attention and it was sweet! :) Thanks for sharing your passion with us and merry Christmas if we don't hear from you till after the holidays, :)
Love you guys giving to the community like that.
What craftsmen, amazing to see such an attention to detail, doing it right. Those classes giving back will effect their lives long into the future. Great way to pay forward what you are accomplishing.
That excursion they entertained sure will profit from their day out in multiple ways - teacher did a fine job searching for a place like Arabella's building site, while he probably didn't know Steve'n Alix would turn it into a highlight of some sort.
I had a teacher like that when I attended boatbuilding classes, who would take us during each theory bloc to several very different places of special interest for the trade, still vividly remembered decades later. (Thanks Fulko!)
Best way to approach sophisticated knowledge for adolescents.
Thanks!
It was the second time that school has come and we have at least one other local school that would like to visit. It's great to show the kids some practical uses for the knowledge they are learning and to see another avenue in life. Some of the kids were bored stiff but others had that glint in their eye and were loving it. Maybe someday one of them will build a boat or some other wild dream of theirs.
I hope that this inspires others to follow a dream of their own.
What will help your spade drill-bit's retention in the screw slots a bit more is if you go one step further and hollow-grind the bit, a-la "Posi-Drive." You don't have to go crazy with it, though. A little dab'll do ya.
Thanks for the tip!
I'm getting caught up. Love seeing the detail of the work. Love seeing you guys get better at what you do. Alix, you're doing a great job of documenting this build with detail and artistry. Well done guys! -M
She is looking good, can't wait to see her on the water.
It's nice watching You work. Thanks for keeping the music, real quiet. I wanna hear the slight noises, as You both do Your work. ASMR style. Auto Sensory Meridian Response. Good feeling in a trusting place.
There are NO boring videos in AtoA. Those oak frames are beautiful.
You must have missed the one where Steve bored the keel bolt holes.
@@pablocruize3975 Boring is in the eye of the beholder.
Kudos for hosting the class. You never know when you teach an important life lesson. I look forward to your videos.
Beautiful Job Guys. Quality is in the details ‼️👍👍⛵️⛵️. Vinny 🇺🇸
There is a LOT of "good" stuff on VICTORIA. Glad to see it being taken care of and used.
wonderful to see the construction of your ship
supper happy for you guys to get to this point in the build!
Those oiled up bent frames look soo goooood!
And they feel good too.. they are so smooth, you can't help but touch them.. well, that was my experience this week.. 😊
Great work as usual guys! There's a new one for me; "Without scrap; it's crap!" I like it! DD
Congrats on another great milestone. Hope you had a successful hunt and put some all natural venison in the freezer.
Thanks! No deer this year.
Acorn To Arabella
A harvest is always nice, but those of us who hunt know ‘the journey is often more important than the destination’.
Well done...both the woodwork and video.
This was like opening a gift before Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone
I love the look of the Oak frames. That is some beautiful looking timber. It's almost a shame to paint over them if that's what you're going to do.
The inside will both be painted and oiled. A lot of beautiful timber will get painted but a completely oiled or varnished wood interior is a bit too much for us.
Outside everything but the deck will get painted. I have no interest in upkeeping varnish. haha
Great work guys. Editing and music were superb !
Building my own boat is on my someday list. I've watched so many sailing vids I'm about burnt-out on them. If I'm on a sailing channel now it's mostly destination focused around the PNW, NZ, Philippines or the like that have stunning views. The places that gave me the dream in the first place.
When I started looking, wooden sailboat builds was a huge void. Plenty of steel and fiberglass, but not wood. It's quite possible I was just missing them though. Your channel, along with Garrett and Ruth at Salt and Tar, and Leo at Sampson Boat co are filling that void nicely. Each in your own way are doing wonderfully at showing step by step more or less how to and what it takes to build a wooden sailboat. You guys are inspiring and it won't surprise me a bit if we see quite a few more self builds getting started in the next few years.
Thanks for following your dream and sharing it with the world, inspiring backyard boat builders everywhere.
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying following the journey and we are psyched to be able to add to the resources out there for others! We are also glad we are not alone in the endeavor!
Love that instrumental tune at 8:00. I know it 's an old timey boatbuilding channel but I like the mix of electronics and timelapse! Works well.
as someone who has followed these vidoes from the beginning. it is so satisfying to see all of this wood i have watched you mill and shape actually taking the shape of a boat.
We remember! haha! It will be 3 years in January since we dropped the first tree and launched the website. It's been a long and wild ride so far!
GREAT SHOW LADS OBAN SCOTLAND
Thank you!
This has got to be the most wholesome channel on TH-cam
As usual a great video , thank you for your time that you put into making the videos as well .
Nothing like a brace and bit for driving in big screws and having control, I hope you lined all the slots (just joking!).
whoever is editing these videos knows exactly what they are doing! keep it up!
I think it's Alix Kreder. He's mentioned editing the videos lots of times...
I like the brace and bit "feel" you have.
Hi Guys, it is really great to see your progress! I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
WHAT? NOT IN THE WATER? you guys Rock
Steve, you almost hit one of my big pet peeves, the use of "flat head." Yes, the screws you chose are flat headed but that has nothing to do with the fact that theyhave STRAIGHT SLOTS. Round headed, fillister headed pan headed and oval headed screws can also have straight slots. They can all also have Phillips sockets. Just please don't call it a "flat head screwdriver." There's just no such thing as a flat head screwdriver; it's a straight blade screwdriver! I know you didn't but you came close. You guys are normally so precise on your technical terms and that is one of the things that makes your videos so great. Keep up the high standards. I've had to dig years of marine accumulation out of Phillips screw heads and applaud your selection. Thanks!
Haha
Growing up they were always "flat head screw drivers and flat head screws" but your point is well taken. We will try to be correct with the terms but please forgive us if we slip. Old habits die hard!
Great video, music was spot on!
Nice works, gents! I really enjoy your channel. Can’t wait to get my tee-shirt.
Congratulations on a major milestone!