its a testament to you guys and to the shipwrights who built these boats in the ol days. Small boat shops in the days of old are all-the-more impressive when you watch this progression and realize how hard it is. Dont burn out!
I've been watching since that first tree. It's been a bleak four years in many ways and your project has given me something positive to look forward to every week. I like to think of you guys as real Americans and that your country will eventually reflect the virtues that I see in you. Thanks for sharing a truly epic project with us. Best to you in 2020.
Nice to see some Andrew Camarata inspiration on this episode. Thumbs and time lapse heavy machinery for the viewers. I am enjoying your content immensely. Many thanks to both of You.
a family up our way used to rough out soft wood bracket stock, they went into the swampy estuary and worked on the enormous yellow cedar stumps left by the springboard loggers, they where heavily buttressed 8 foot thick at cut line and 16- 20 foot at base, about 16 feet high. they used stumping powder to blow the muck away then hand saw/axe to cut all buttress roots, then they split out the buttresses and adzed them clean to about 10 inches then they hand packed the balks out to the train line up to 5 miles away. they stacked them for pick up and were paid a dollar a buttress. (1931) they did two or three stumps per week cut and stacked. the brackets were used for fish boat construction in Vancouver's coal harbor. There were 5 sons involved and they all lived well into their 90s
PRO TIP .... Dig out around the root ball first. Then, use the hoe to push over the tree, using the weight of the tree when pushing to unearth the roots. Best method when dealing with large tap roots that are under the middle of the tree.
Pro tip, learn what kind of tree has what kind of root system. Deciduous trees DON'T have tap roots. They have broad, horizontal root systems. Coniferous trees have tap roots, not deciduous. Knocking a tree down with the root attached is fine unless the roots are woven around in the roots of close trees so trying to play root ball games with those takes massively more time than just cutting the tree down in the first place and then worrying about the stump. So, obviously there are a lot of levels of "pros" when their supposed "tips" are completely useless, right? Apparently, in some places, "pro" is a pretty low bar.
georgianbents I use a method that works. Low bar is you and your bad comments. If you are a pro, then you have just brought the bar down to lower than a tap root.
It's always fascinated me to know what it feels like to sail aboard a vessel that you know and understand so intimately..every stud, screw and fastener carrying you along.
As usual these 21 minutes passed all to quickly. Thanks for continuing to bring us along on your journey. I'm constantly impressed by the amount of skull sweat and forethought y'all invest in the project. Keep on keepin' on!
Just think....One day you will be sitting there in the cockpit watching the billowing sail, listening to the North Atlantic waves lapping against the hull.....thinking back about digging out stumps on a cold winter day . .. Lol
@@arlingtonhynes Bah. Everyone does that. Just palm trees and umbrella drinks while surrounded by hoards of other boats. Lots more interesting to see and lesser travelled places in cold water.
Sitting in my workshop, planking my own model wood ship “ Essex” and watching you dig up stumps in the cold of New England, I sip on my Acorn to Arabella mug some delicious Kona coffee. Always a pleasure watching your videos, and looking forward to the next one.
Like everyone else I can't believe it has been four years. It seems like just yesterday you started on this project. "The ground is a little hard" doesn't always work for backhoes (lol) but they can pull themselves out unless they end up axle deep. Thank you gentlemen and wishing you the best for this new year.
Heavily forked open grown oak is best for your knees. Stumps are not so good as they tend to have stones and other crud included into the timber. Carefully fell your forked oak onto a pile of brash so you don't split the fork when you're felling. Good luck!
Ship/ boat building - Now that is a trade, vocation, art or what ever you would call it that I would love to learn to do. I do know these guys are living the American dream via their hard work, ingenuity and God given talents.
I used to find very nice knees along the riverbanks where at times it would go beyond its banks and uproot trees leaving great potential for gathering knees. 🇨🇦
Joined Mar 23, 2016 , 120 videos 17,805,278 views. It’s the only channel on TH-cam showing how to build a wood boat in detail. Years from now this could be the rage with billions of views? It makes my day waking up to watch every week. Arabella is going to be fun to sail. ;o)
Watching today's episode, I was reminded of two other dudes who spent a few years working on a project together, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. Makes me realize that we don't get a lot of interpersonal interaction on Arabella.
Sean have you seen the restoration of Western flyer ? Steinbeck's old boat is being re done in Washington by a school up there, much larger, and different construction, but the team is moving along a lot faster as well.. though they did source white oak from kentucky via horse gang , purple heart was purchased for her keel.. guess west coast builds are different.. either way have a look.. might be a good filler between episodes ..
I truly admired you gentleman for what you are doing and your accomplishments I am really impressed I look so forward to when you finally complete this
I’ve been watching you guys for years now. I remember how exciting it was when you poured the lead. Still checking in on you guys and I hope you guys get this project finished. Can’t wait to see the video when you guys are sailing it in the sea.
Happy new year Boys, young lady and pup. Don't you love our world you are getting snow in and we are getting burnt out. From Coffs Harbour Oz, till next time thanks.
Such a beautiful farm ! The lamas remind me or the Springfield (VT) ag fair, when an old retired dairy farmer (who claims he joined the Army in 1942 so "he could have a vacation") was asked what he thought about these lamas? He just kind of winced, looked pained ----- still a dry humored comedian - which good Vermont farmers need to be.
So my biggest concern is, in a couple years when they are on a looong crossing in the South Pacific, and no chainsaws or John Deere machinery for 1000s of miles in any direction, what is Steven gonna do with himself? Who else wants to see the video where Alex has to talk Steven down off the starboard bulwarks?
Make no mistake about it bots in EU are for rich ppl mate it is not like USA and wood bots are extremely espansive to maintain and operate awesome job you guys ..happy new Year to all of you !! "Arabella molto Bella"
I am so glad you are going with naturally curving grain. I was afraid you would make them out of bronze or thin strips of wood, bent and epoxied together. Tree roots are So Awesome.
All the best wishes to everyone! It's funny to see so much snow over there, here in the Netherlands we have one of the warmest winters ever. Even some of the trees are out of sync, because some of them are already growing new buds while that shouldn't be happening in the middle of the winter. And my strawberry plants still have green leaves, and that is not normal either for this time of the year.
Any video that contains knees and breast gets a like from me... Jk but awesome videos guys and I love learning about stuff that I didn't even realize I wanted to learn!
Happy New Year! Love the channel! As a retired teacher I now live much of my life through TH-cam and your content is really interesting! Good luck to you all.
Four years? I really must have started following you shortly after! It looks like the ledge is pretty shallow under those trees - hopefully that's making it easier to get those stumps out!
You know i always set the boom off at a slight angle not right in-line with what im digging so im not looking right and left around the boom. Granted u sit a little crooked ,but i laughed watching steve bounce back and forth side to side😂
Keep meaning to comment on the Yankee twist driver. Must be a family heirloom tool. I have one but it does not have as long a "draw" as yours. Very handy tool!
Hi guys, I'm enjoying your show. Please do not take this in any other way than a simple question/ opinion, the planking seems to me to be going really slow, I have seen builds before with similar resources and the planking is alot quicker. I can appreciate your first time builders however you are far from beginners when it comes to working with wood. I hope your Good fortune continues you are savvy operators
Love the channel and the project, folks. Both for the boatbuilding and the woodworking. What I DON’T come to your channel for is hunting. How about you focus on the project and leave out the killing you do in your spare time? There are about a billion You Tube channels people can go to if they want to watch (or hear people talk about) humans killing animals. Listen, I get that you want to add depth and value to Steve & Alix’s “story” by sharing more of their lives beyond boatbuilding. If that involves baseball cards or needlepoint or bonsai trees or ANYTHING that doesn’t involve killing animals, I’m all for it.
@@cmmartti Is there anything wrong with killing animals? I’m glad you ask the question and don’t jump in with justifications. I would say this in response-why don’t you put yourself in the place of the animal(s) to answer that question? That is, who has a right to kill you?
@@cmmartti I think we can all agree that death, whether under the wheels of a car or by a hunter’s bullet, is a pretty awful thing. There’s really no debate about that. I would like people to reconsider recreational killing. I mean, just think about that for a moment-killing for fun. Killing for pleasure. There is nothing nuanced about that. We are not talking about self-defense or survival. We are talking about killing defenseless animals in one's spare time for fun. I came to Acorn to Arabella because I enjoyed the boatbuilding and the woodworking, not because I wanted to watch people hunt & kill animals.
Whenever I see someone digging up a stump I remember the scene in Shane (the book, not the movie) where Shane and the farmer dig one up. Lots of imagery in that description. It's been close to 50 years since I've read it in school so I'm likely not remembering it accurately... but it sure looks easier with a back hoe.
Awhile ago, I was going to chain saw up a stump that i dug out. Even after power washing (which was a mess) there were stones incorporated into the root ball. They ruined the chain enough times that i gave up. You might try sawing in the "stem" and splitting the rest of the way through the roots in the dirt.
Happy new year my beloved Boatbuilders. Just mytwo cents as a carpenter. I am not a big fan of your plank nozzles, noses whatever you call it. Keep in mind in which direction wood is able to take and compensate forces. Its not in direction of cells. (for this tiny nozzles/ hooks.) 100$ bet: first youll miss is one of those tiny bits.
@@wandeenboatbuilding3524 Yepp ! 1 to 1 at minimum. BTW i want to see (your) their success! Go on! :* Nope! th-cam.com/video/Hb8UUM41zns/w-d-xo.html And why? there is no reason for! Tricky Trick. we ll enclose the hole body in resin aka epoxy. Win/ Sin
The higher you cut those stumps, the more leverage you have to pull them out. I've seen trees cut 8 and 10 feet above the ground in areas where they are hard to pull. Just a thought.
Maybe Ben could throw in a graphic to show us lazy non-boat builders where "knees" and "breast hooks" are located in the boat. Would save me a google search, lol.
100 years ago Arabella would have been called a ship, nowadays due to the convolutions of the English language, it is called a boat. I like the old terminology better. Great video as always.
about the dophinite... any reason you don't use a grooved putty knife? It's a way to avoid air pockets and ensure a consistent thickness. Also, I see that spreading that stuff takes quite a lot of time. Maybe it would be faster with a grooved knife.
Hanging planks is going to be tricky four or five courses from now, as they reach the limits of your reach and the curve of the hull provides little support from the plank below. Maybe you’ll be into lighter cedar planks by then?
The guys would much rather have been using cedar for the planking by now but when they did an inventory of their cedar plank stock they did not think there was enough board feet to plank the entire hull. So they they decided to use oak for a few more planks - harder to plank but stronger and a little heavier down below the water line.
Too bad(when visiting France,) you had to witness these god awful strikes. Hope it didn't effect(too much) you week's visit...Happy New Year....rr Normandy, France
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Acorn To Arabella me and my girlfriend have been following your videos since before you guys made the keel. We’re HUGE fans of what you guys are doing! Notifications are now on, thanks!
You didn't see any wooden boats at the boat show because it is an obsolete material for yachts. It may be "romantic" but it is not practical, because of the constant maintenance required and the fact that a boat builder could not build a wooden boat and offer it at a price that competes with his fiberglass competitors.
Just a fun fact: The Eiffel tower lights at night are copyrighted under french law, and in theory might cause a takedown or demonetization or other such actions. Unlit eiffeltower at day is OK, the copyright on Eiffel tower itself has expired, but the light "art" installation on it is still current copyright. the glass pyramid at Louvre is copyrighted too and filming/photographing it is illegal, especially for commercial purposes. I know, It's weird, but then again, the french are weird.
its a testament to you guys and to the shipwrights who built these boats in the ol days. Small boat shops in the days of old are all-the-more impressive when you watch this progression and realize how hard it is. Dont burn out!
I've been watching since that first tree. It's been a bleak four years in many ways and your project has given me something positive to look forward to every week. I like to think of you guys as real Americans and that your country will eventually reflect the virtues that I see in you. Thanks for sharing a truly epic project with us. Best to you in 2020.
Nice to see some Andrew Camarata inspiration on this episode. Thumbs and time lapse heavy machinery for the viewers. I am enjoying your content immensely. Many thanks to both of You.
a family up our way used to rough out soft wood bracket stock, they went into the swampy estuary and worked on the enormous yellow cedar stumps left by the springboard loggers, they where heavily buttressed 8 foot thick at cut line and 16- 20 foot at base, about 16 feet high. they used stumping powder to blow the muck away then hand saw/axe to cut all buttress roots, then they split out the buttresses and adzed them clean to about 10 inches
then they hand packed the balks out to the train line up to 5 miles away. they stacked them for pick up and were paid a dollar a buttress. (1931) they did two or three stumps per week cut and stacked. the brackets were used for fish boat construction in Vancouver's coal harbor. There were 5 sons involved and they all lived well into their 90s
PRO TIP .... Dig out around the root ball first. Then, use the hoe to push over the tree, using the weight of the tree when pushing to unearth the roots. Best method when dealing with large tap roots that are under the middle of the tree.
T5RABBIT we put, company i worked for did the same !! 👍👍👍
i was about to say the thing
Pro tip, learn what kind of tree has what kind of root system. Deciduous trees DON'T have tap roots. They have broad, horizontal root systems. Coniferous trees have tap roots, not deciduous. Knocking a tree down with the root attached is fine unless the roots are woven around in the roots of close trees so trying to play root ball games with those takes massively more time than just cutting the tree down in the first place and then worrying about the stump.
So, obviously there are a lot of levels of "pros" when their supposed "tips" are completely useless, right? Apparently, in some places, "pro" is a pretty low bar.
georgianbents I use a method that works. Low bar is you and your bad comments. If you are a pro, then you have just brought the bar down to lower than a tap root.
It's always fascinated me to know what it feels like to sail aboard a vessel that you know and understand so intimately..every stud, screw and fastener carrying you along.
As usual these 21 minutes passed all to quickly. Thanks for continuing to bring us along on your journey. I'm constantly impressed by the amount of skull sweat and forethought y'all invest in the project. Keep on keepin' on!
Just think....One day you will be sitting there in the cockpit watching the billowing sail, listening to the North Atlantic waves lapping against the hull.....thinking back about digging out stumps on a cold winter day . .. Lol
I can’t wait to see what you describe
@@aliabdurrahman Waiting is going to be necessary. They are many years of work and patreon paychecks away from that point.
And paying the snow shovel driver at grandpas over the internet. LOL
The hell with the North Atlantic, how about the South Pacific?
@@arlingtonhynes Bah. Everyone does that. Just palm trees and umbrella drinks while surrounded by hoards of other boats. Lots more interesting to see and lesser travelled places in cold water.
In my experience the best material for those knees would be bees, they’ve got the finest knees you’ll find
Sitting in my workshop, planking my own model wood ship “ Essex” and watching you dig up stumps in the cold of New England, I sip on my Acorn to Arabella mug some delicious Kona coffee.
Always a pleasure watching your videos, and looking forward to the next one.
Like everyone else I can't believe it has been four years. It seems like just yesterday you started on this project. "The ground is a little hard" doesn't always work for backhoes (lol) but they can pull themselves out unless they end up axle deep. Thank you gentlemen and wishing you the best for this new year.
Nice watch there Steve🦌
Heavily forked open grown oak is best for your knees. Stumps are not so good as they tend to have stones and other crud included into the timber. Carefully fell your forked oak onto a pile of brash so you don't split the fork when you're felling. Good luck!
Ship/ boat building - Now that is a trade, vocation, art or what ever you would call it that I would love to learn to do. I do know these guys are living the American dream via their hard work, ingenuity and God given talents.
It has been a great 2019 and wishing the Stephen, Alix, and the rest of the Arabella a Happy and productive New Year for 2020! Thanks for the video!
I used to find very nice knees along the riverbanks where at times it would go beyond its banks and uproot trees leaving great potential for gathering knees. 🇨🇦
Good job planning things out to allow for the wood to season.
Joined Mar 23, 2016 , 120 videos 17,805,278 views. It’s the only channel on TH-cam showing how to build a wood boat in detail. Years from now this could be the rage with billions of views? It makes my day waking up to watch every week. Arabella is going to be fun to sail. ;o)
Watching today's episode, I was reminded of two other dudes who spent a few years working on a project together, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. Makes me realize that we don't get a lot of interpersonal interaction on Arabella.
No drama works for me.
Sean have you seen the restoration of Western flyer ? Steinbeck's old boat is being re done in Washington by a school up there, much larger, and different construction, but the team is moving along a lot faster as well.. though they did source white oak from kentucky via horse gang , purple heart was purchased for her keel.. guess west coast builds are different.. either way have a look.. might be a good filler between episodes ..
I truly admired you gentleman for what you are doing and your accomplishments I am really impressed I look so forward to when you finally complete this
Welcome to 2020, it's going to be a big deal for you guys. I'm amazed at how you've grown your knowledge and confidence!
I love that bit of wisdom about planking alternating sides. You sure have some subtle insights about the process.
Now you're truly stumped! :)
Great project planning and management
Great, the Grand Bathtub Show de Paris... best to enjoy the free coffee and the horse sheit small talk and get a nice long bread lunch...
I could do with some new knees:)
I got mine last year best thing I ever did able to go hunting and sailing again should be good for another 20 yrs.
You only have to rub in some linsed oil to lumber up. Lol
I’ve been watching you guys for years now. I remember how exciting it was when you poured the lead. Still checking in on you guys and I hope you guys get this project finished. Can’t wait to see the video when you guys are sailing it in the sea.
Happy new year guys, been following you since the begining and you are a highlight for me!!! From Paris.....
Happy new year Boys, young lady and pup. Don't you love our world you are getting snow in and we are getting burnt out. From Coffs Harbour Oz, till next time thanks.
Thank you and wishing you all well down there. Terrible to hear about the fires and hope they get tamed soon. Stay safe!
Man I like these videos, and just adore Arabella as she comes into reality. Thanks Steve and Alix.
"the neighbors probably think we are crazy" im sure they where thinking that a long time ago
This time they must have been just stumped.
Some have even placed realtor for sale signs, on their front yards... : )
Happy New Year, you merry fellows, lady, and pup!
Oh to be young and strong again. No job looks to big or impossible.
You guys are a hard working pair. 👍
Thanks for the video.
If they were my sons, I'd be a very proud father !!
Loving the new intro!!
What a great resource that block of trees is! Your grandfather had some forethought! Very interesting episode!
Such a beautiful farm ! The lamas remind me or the Springfield (VT) ag fair, when an old retired dairy farmer (who claims he joined the Army in 1942 so "he could have a vacation") was asked what he thought about these lamas? He just kind of winced, looked pained ----- still a dry humored comedian - which good Vermont farmers need to be.
So my biggest concern is, in a couple years when they are on a looong crossing in the South Pacific, and no chainsaws or John Deere machinery for 1000s of miles in any direction, what is Steven gonna do with himself? Who else wants to see the video where Alex has to talk Steven down off the starboard bulwarks?
I bet he'll find room to bring at least a small chainsaw!
Make no mistake about it bots in EU are for rich ppl mate it is not like USA and wood bots are extremely espansive to maintain and operate awesome job you guys ..happy new Year to all of you !! "Arabella molto Bella"
I am looking forward to seeing the rootmass for the triple-tree stump. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, men!
happy new year from france of good thing for 2019
Happy new year from Australia
Looks like Mario kart going out into the woods on the backhoe.fun stuff try to stay warm up there.thanks
Very happy to see you came to France for your vacation.Hope you enjoyed Paris. Happy new year from a french follower.
Thank you for including us in this journey. Hope to see you at the next open house! Happy new year from Manchester NH.
I am so glad you are going with naturally curving grain. I was afraid you would make them out of bronze or thin strips of wood, bent and epoxied together. Tree roots are So Awesome.
Happy New Year!
Thanks for sharing Paris looks amazing
Happy New year!! and let this be a wonderfull boat building year :-D
Bonne année 2020 from Paris...
All the best wishes to everyone! It's funny to see so much snow over there, here in the Netherlands we have one of the warmest winters ever. Even some of the trees are out of sync, because some of them are already growing new buds while that shouldn't be happening in the middle of the winter. And my strawberry plants still have green leaves, and that is not normal either for this time of the year.
Any video that contains knees and breast gets a like from me...
Jk but awesome videos guys and I love learning about stuff that I didn't even realize I wanted to learn!
Happy New Year guys!
Happy New Year! Love the channel! As a retired teacher I now live much of my life through TH-cam and your content is really interesting! Good luck to you all.
Four years? I really must have started following you shortly after! It looks like the ledge is pretty shallow under those trees - hopefully that's making it easier to get those stumps out!
Good to see you both taking a well earned break. Happy New Decade to all of you.
You and your Mate are true futuristic, thinking ahead to meet a goal. Except for mud on the road 😁
Need to see more of that old rock walls and info of it lol
You know i always set the boom off at a slight angle not right in-line with what im digging so im not looking right and left around the boom. Granted u sit a little crooked ,but i laughed watching steve bounce back and forth side to side😂
Keep meaning to comment on the Yankee twist driver. Must be a family heirloom tool. I have one but it does not have as long a "draw" as yours. Very handy tool!
Hi guys, I'm enjoying your show. Please do not take this in any other way than a simple question/ opinion, the planking seems to me to be going really slow, I have seen builds before with similar resources and the planking is alot quicker. I can appreciate your first time builders however you are far from beginners when it comes to working with wood. I hope your Good fortune continues you are savvy operators
That was pretty cool to see the first stump come up!
Great editing. Cheers!
Happy new year ,keep them coming .
Aw yiss so happy to be awake for this
Bonjour,
Once again "Bonne Année" from Paris, France :+)
Amicalement, Raphaël
Right on !!! A girlfriend on the show !!!
Love the channel and the project, folks. Both for the boatbuilding and the woodworking. What I DON’T come to your channel for is hunting. How about you focus on the project and leave out the killing you do in your spare time? There are about a billion You Tube channels people can go to if they want to watch (or hear people talk about) humans killing animals. Listen, I get that you want to add depth and value to Steve & Alix’s “story” by sharing more of their lives beyond boatbuilding. If that involves baseball cards or needlepoint or bonsai trees or ANYTHING that doesn’t involve killing animals, I’m all for it.
@@cmmartti Is there anything wrong with killing animals? I’m glad you ask the question and don’t jump in with justifications. I would say this in response-why don’t you put yourself in the place of the animal(s) to answer that question? That is, who has a right to kill you?
@@cmmartti I think we can all agree that death, whether under the wheels of a car or by a hunter’s bullet, is a pretty awful thing. There’s really no debate about that. I would like people to reconsider recreational killing. I mean, just think about that for a moment-killing for fun. Killing for pleasure. There is nothing nuanced about that.
We are not talking about self-defense or survival. We are talking about killing defenseless animals in one's spare time for fun. I came to Acorn to Arabella because I enjoyed the boatbuilding and the woodworking, not because I wanted to watch people hunt & kill animals.
Tip: set your camera flicker filter to 50hz when you go to Europe and you won't get that flickering effect indoors.
Whenever I see someone digging up a stump I remember the scene in Shane (the book, not the movie) where Shane and the farmer dig one up. Lots of imagery in that description. It's been close to 50 years since I've read it in school so I'm likely not remembering it accurately... but it sure looks easier with a back hoe.
Ingenious, happy new one & all 🥂🥂🥂
Happy New Year 2020
Good morning, Arabella.
Awhile ago, I was going to chain saw up a stump that i dug out. Even after power washing (which was a mess) there were stones incorporated into the root ball. They ruined the chain enough times that i gave up. You might try sawing in the "stem" and splitting the rest of the way through the roots in the dirt.
Happy new year my beloved Boatbuilders.
Just mytwo cents as a carpenter. I am not a big fan of your plank nozzles, noses whatever you call it. Keep in mind in which direction wood is able to take and compensate forces. Its not in direction of cells. (for this tiny nozzles/ hooks.) 100$ bet: first youll miss is one of those tiny bits.
They are called nibs and I agree with you. Ideally they should be about as wide as the plank is thick.
@@wandeenboatbuilding3524 Yepp ! 1 to 1 at minimum.
BTW i want to see (your) their success!
Go on! :*
Nope!
th-cam.com/video/Hb8UUM41zns/w-d-xo.html
And why? there is no reason for!
Tricky Trick. we ll enclose the hole body in resin aka epoxy. Win/ Sin
Love the acidised background music mix
Limited video was a great idea
Guys where is all your help? Nice video as usual.
Hope you guys enjoyed the break, I was going to suggest a tee-shirt but am stumped for ideas
The higher you cut those stumps, the more leverage you have to pull them out. I've seen trees cut 8 and 10 feet above the ground in areas where they are hard to pull. Just a thought.
4 years I have been watching this?! Feels like 4 days!
Happy New Year guys, I hope you have a healthy wealthy successful 2020 from a Scotsman on the west coast.
Maybe Ben could throw in a graphic to show us lazy non-boat builders where "knees" and "breast hooks" are located in the boat. Would save me a google search, lol.
a happy new year!
100 years ago Arabella would have been called a ship, nowadays due to the convolutions of the English language, it is called a boat. I like the old terminology better. Great video as always.
about the dophinite... any reason you don't use a grooved putty knife? It's a way to avoid air pockets and ensure a consistent thickness. Also, I see that spreading that stuff takes quite a lot of time. Maybe it would be faster with a grooved knife.
Welcome back! Happy New Year!
And in SE Australia, its 45C and burning...forest fires covering vast areas
Awesome. Happy New Year.
Hanging planks is going to be tricky four or five courses from now, as they reach the limits of your reach and the curve of the hull provides little support from the plank below. Maybe you’ll be into lighter cedar planks by then?
The guys would much rather have been using cedar for the planking by now but when they did an inventory of their cedar plank stock they did not think there was enough board feet to plank the entire hull. So they they decided to use oak for a few more planks - harder to plank but stronger and a little heavier down below the water line.
Nice work lads have a happy new year.
Instead of cutting the tree while upright, knock it over with stump attached... makes uprooting much easier
hi looking good
Too bad(when visiting France,) you had to witness these god awful strikes. Hope it didn't effect(too much) you week's visit...Happy New Year....rr Normandy, France
Roots and all
UGH HOW HAVE I MISSED THIS VIDEO FOR 4 DAYS
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Acorn To Arabella me and my girlfriend have been following your videos since before you guys made the keel. We’re HUGE fans of what you guys are doing! Notifications are now on, thanks!
I live in Alaska and we haven’t had a snow like that yet this winter! Oh, and it’s -10f right now.
You didn't see any wooden boats at the boat show because it is an obsolete material for yachts. It may be "romantic" but it is not practical, because of the constant maintenance required and the fact that a boat builder could not build a wooden boat and offer it at a price that competes with his fiberglass competitors.
17:19
You silly guy! The stump is on the OTHER end! 😜
Just a fun fact: The Eiffel tower lights at night are copyrighted under french law, and in theory might cause a takedown or demonetization or other such actions. Unlit eiffeltower at day is OK, the copyright on Eiffel tower itself has expired, but the light "art" installation on it is still current copyright. the glass pyramid at Louvre is copyrighted too and filming/photographing it is illegal, especially for commercial purposes.
I know, It's weird, but then again, the french are weird.