Dear Stephen and Alex, I am thoroughly enjoying watching your build and the many creative ways you are approaching the challenges faced by first time wooden boat builders. I’m only 1 of 127K viewers so must be providing something very special. Speaking for myself, I’d say the actual build is important, but enjoying your adventurous spirits is the best. Thank you for everything. Cheers, Will
These videos are so well done. Been following since the beginning and have to agree, they always seem to end in much less time than has actually elapsed. The through riveting of the bilge ceilings looks like an excellent solution. That's the difference between a designer that knows they will have to maintain their creation and an automotive engineer than knows they will never have to work on their design. I can't imagine that commercially built boats 100-200 years ago were as precisely fitted as Arabella. Kudos to your craftsmanship throughout!
I really like your thought process to facilitate later rework. I also love your square rivets that grab the planks and ribs. I do think that "doing it your way" is doubling the process time. Hats off to you for sticking to your precepts. Kudos and Bravo Zulu.
When you come to the end of an Acorn To Arabella video and think, "Aw man, is that it?" and realize almost 30 minutes have gone by....the mark of engaging and well-made videos. Keep it up gentlemen.
Well said @ gritnix. I've been reacting the same way since I first saw their earliest logging efforts and became addicted to following these super guys and their plans. Their change to weekly uploads was marvellous, but I STILL want to see even more EVERY time! ;-)
I would like hour long videos as well and they do have a person to do that now. I hope they don't think that being an hour long would make the videos boring! lol But honestly, I have to defer to their reasoning despite my enjoyment of this series. I so love watching the fabrication, even the sped up /time lapse stuff is gratifying. Alas, living vicariously has its downside.
"Our backs are young and we'd like to keep them that way." Amen from all the old guys who wish they had taken _way_ better care of their backs when they were young.
49 with bad back, hips, knees, hands, elbows, and shoulders. Spent most of my life doing manual labor woth really no thought to the long term effects, now I am disabled way too early. I sure hope they are conscious about self care and not just singing the song, so to say.
Thanks Christie & Ben!!! You two are awesome! Thanks for you work on A2A! Awesome job on the backhoe Randy! I love how you two find innovative solutions to problems encountered during the build of the boat. Looking good Stephen & Alex! Good luck with Sail Cargo and thanks for the video!
Love the shows. Thank you so very much for your solid engineering... ISO'ed, discussed and hammered out right here on tape (for the most part, I would imagine). Also Cheers for the relentless and critically justified physical proof. The attention placed on didactics is smoothly obvious. This is THE TEXTBOOK and then some. You Patreons who are making this possible are the rockstars of this chapter in human history. You are letting sounds be heard and feelings being felt which are so fucking fundamental and yet so seemingly unrecognized. Thank you folks for cuffing some life changing content and for paying it forward for some who can't, or just won't. Funny thing though if ya keep your eyes open, there is always a way to make a day better.
Through riveting the planks to the bilge bands actually makes for a stronger overall structure because it ties the planks and bilge bands together. Great idea! Greg
The method for fixing the bilge bands makes perfect sense; obviously on a commercial job, time is of the essence. Making your own tool for a specific function is one of the extra enjoyments. Nice package for the trip down south. Have a good time.
Dale Skidmore "Making your own tool for a specific function is one of the extra enjoyments." Our two friends here are so brilliant ! Their plywood contraption to precisely plane the numerous scarf joints is pure genius. The last one here to clamp the "grating pieces" is in the same league. Awesome resourcefulness. Being a seasonned DIYer with no money, I used my own tricks over the years but absolutely not at the same scale of Stephen and Alix !!
As usual, the time passes too quickly when watching y'all's videos. The ever-increasing quality of the content and production values does not get old. Keep on keepin' on, crew! Am looking forward to reports from Costa Rica. It will be too cool if they can make sail transport competitive in their niche market.
You just know you are really getting into a video that's almost half an hour long when you feel like you just want more and feel the video went by to quickly. You start to think they just did a short video, until you check the clock on the video. Thanks again for sharing this journey with the rest of us. Your attention to detail is refreshing. I feel like I could just about use your series to build a boat my self. I'm loving the series, even if it is taking years. That's just how long a build like this takes with two guys most of the time. I can only imagine the rigging I'd have to figure out as the sole builder, if/when I start my own boat. Heck, around these parts it might take 10 years just to scavenge the lead for the keel. I'm quite sure if I started today, that the boat would not be finished before I die (currently 49 years of age, and disabled). Sure don't have the money to buy an ocean going vessel. I'll just have to live through my TH-cam boat channels.
Interesting. As a programmer I believed that it was my job to make the user's easy. In building something that makes maintenance [that will be needed] harder is a cop out. You are right. Do what is hard now to make the future easier. Oh and thanks again for another beautiful and endearing film.
I've always had a fascination with nautical things, but no time or money to venture into that world. I am more or less land-locked myself, but do have close access to the Ohio river that can lead me to open waters via the Mississippi river and Gulf of Mexico. Just don't have the funding or time required to finish a boat build before I die. Plus the whole disabled thing, you know.
Another great video thank you all. Have a wonderful trip. I hope many people will benefit and this will be the seed for a very good thing that continue's grow.
Bilge bands even more wood applications arg! Props to all the donation suppliers for the Sailcargo project pretty cool. That new clamp Steve made is genius. I can get so interested in these videos that 28 minutes seem like 10.
That's a great idea, using your rapidly expanding knowledge to empower local fishermen, hope they don't have shares in GRP boat supply companies! I'm a bit far away in the UK but envy you being able to pass the skills on. Well done.
If you don’t want to buy merchandise, don’t buy it. I just enjoy the the craftsmanship and watching the boat come together. Getting a chance to see how it’s done is such an opportunity.
That's the best way to build..Thinking what it will take down the road when repair is necessary and making that eventuality quicker n easier.. Suffer now for peace of mind later.
Even with square non-tapered angles on the graving piece clamps you will tend to get uneven clamping pressure on the graving pieces. You will get more pressure on the side with the bolts. A suggestion would be to add small shim near the center of the clamp so the clamping pressure is only near the center of the plank. Another option would be to add a slight crown to the outside edge of the graving piece so that the clamping pressure would only be applied to the top of the crown.
I'm a little late here, but... the angle iron clamp is cool and I'll have to try it some time. What I've found is wrapping the glue up with cellophane to contain the glue/epoxy, then wrapping it tightly with a rubber inner tube from a 27" bike (cut into 1" strips) works a charm. Also, pulled tight enough it keeps constant pressure, even if the wood shrinks.
Hey Steve,that's a perfectly logical way to set the stage for future maintenance,as you started talking about the problems that come with the traditional way of fixing the bilge bands,I thought to myself,why not use a longer rivet to fix everything in place with the one fixing,great minds think alike hey👍
I am once again so THANKFUL that you do not speed up the sounds of the video, I presume this makes editing take a little longer but please know that the end result of *2 motion with normal sound makes watching the video easy. sorry for the randomness of the english.
Those clamps are a great idea, though keep in mind the inside of angle iron is not often super flat compared to the outside. I'm guessing you're getting some uneven clamping pressure as a result. I'd consider flipping the moving jaw if you have the threads to do so and using that against the graving piece. Or shims.
Your solution to stringer fixing is spot on, I can't think why you wouldn't mirror the stringers with skin planks. A plank and a stringer in turn fixing each strake as you go. On the other hand my experience is on different hull models and I have seen enough to know you will continue your high standard of work.
I am currently in school, with a 3 day long series of 4 performances of the sound of music (Pit orchestra). I am exhausted and I really needed this, so thanks guys!!
Every time you open one of the heating boxes it reminds me of that scene in pulp fiction where they open the briefcase!!! Random but struck me a funny!
I wonder if any people in the history of the world have ever put this amount of care and attention to detail into the construction of one vessel. I sincerely doubt it. This will be the boat by which all other boats ever built will be measured. Cheer folks. Keep it up.
Wilber and Orville Wright. And they didnt have any plans and much of the data they had from other sources was incorrect. Much of what they discovered from trial and error is still used today as a rule of thumb. No it wasnt a boat but a craft none the less. Just think how popular their youtube channel would be. And the comments?
That last bit when you started to read out the tool list, I thought you were starting to sing a song. Now there's an idea lol. Keep up the awesome work guys, Cheers.
My two cents solution for the bilge bands . Extra long screws in which the first nut will hold the planking and frame with a countersink in the planking or in the bilge band , another way of doing it is by using T-Nut holding the frame with the planking , and the bilge band will be held by the second set of nuts , T nuts are made out of stainless steel or brass plus there's a variety of different styles , For quite a few years now I have been fantasizing about building Wooden Boats out of Salvage lumber from the Amazon jungle instead of good Lumber going up in smokes .
Hope you have a couple more before you go. Send videos from Costa Rica to see that massive ship. It has been years since something so big has been built or I'm living out in the woods in the fur North. Well I am in Northern Michigan way, way out in the woods. lol
Your solution for the bilge bands also means a lot fewer penetrations in the frames so they should be less likely to fail due to holes close together propagating any cracks.
I admire your upscale backyard engineering and problem solving!! Would another solution for the graving piece clamps be a strongback channel along the graving piece with three or so nylon strap comealongs around the plank and strongback to apply the clamping force?
I just had a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon moment. Scott Oudekirk is Glass Goat, he made a beautiful stained glass panel for Peter at "Travels with Geordie". Just like when I found out Thad introduced Leo to Tally Ho. So much karma in shipbuilding. ;)
great solution to fitting the bilge rails , been done before by some yards in the UK , but as you say time expensive and not done to often to save the boat owners wallet.
Agree! Especially at 24:13, gorgeous soft electronic organ. But is it an arrangement of another well known piece that I am to thick to actually recall? It's seems to be right on the tip of my ... ear.
So with putting your planks into the heat boxes, you are having issues with the wood losing moisture and therefor shrinking and losing the clamping force. May I suggest adding some automotive valve springs to your new home made clamps? Then you can clamp them down tight and the springs will take up for the loss of width..
What about using some old valve springs off of a automotive head on your new clamps. I believe they would help maintain a constant force even with the shrinking issue.
If you fasten the bilge bands via the planking rivets will you run into a problem with where the rivets land internally? As the bilge bands and planking run in different orientations you'll end up with rivets that sometimes land right on the edge of one of the bilge bands- how are you planning on dealing with that or are you not worried about being too close to the edges of the internal timber? Love what you guys are doing, I've only recently found the channel and have binged watched for the last two weeks!
I keep meaning to ask, and we may have been told at some point, but who is the guitarist with the big, fat soulful sound. I've really been enjoying it.
I'm very excited to see Arabella splash someday but I wonder what your channel will become... Thanks for sharing!! P.S. What do you do with all that copper scrap? Sell it I imagine. Thx again
Fantastic build and video coverage. Question: Years ago (1960s) I worked in a shop where we used Recorsinol (sp) glue. To speed the drying/curing process, we had a machine with an ultrasonic tool on the end of a long cable which cooked and cured the glue in moments; it would boil, pop, snap and then harden. Is this still a viable option for this glue, and if so, interested why you have not employed it? Again, fantascit series of videos. Keep up the excellent work, and thanks for posting it.
Ive got a question on the little "birdsbeak" lookin hooks on the end of the planks. Ive watched almost all of the episodes, and I remember yall talking about doing it so it would support the plank and fill the space, but I have a thought. To me, it looks like the way yall have done it so far would break easier since it could break along the grain of the wood, whereas if the wood were simply pointed and attached at least all the grain would be long and IF it broke, it would have to break across the grain instead of with it. Just a thought. I love yalls channel and watch it every time it comes out! Love the ingenuity with the glue joints and the chutzpah to take on such a huge project! congrats on everything!
Why have the bilge bands abut one another? Run them as separated boards between the rivet pairs. The bilge band total area width would be double or triple, but you would solve the hard spot problem and get the strengthening better distributed. You would also have much more accessibility to the inside of the planking in case you need to make an emergency repair if you knock a hole in it in shoal waters or hit a snag in a river scenario.
Guys you might want to offer this items which might sell like hot cakes from your store. Grannies around the world have always collected memorabilia nick knacks like tea spoons with the little picture of whatever on the end of the spoon. They go nuts about tea cups & saucers with picture prints of the same to go with their spoons. For the guy's there are pop out utility knives, camping knife, fork & spoon sets & last some type of nautical weather station & clock hanging item. All of these things can go from very cheap items to the under $75 which is longer lasting than clothing while clothing can be equally as expensive.
jrfc, aaahahh,, the treachery ,, somllpay, sommll wont,, here's us all , givin a rotten purple blood clotted flying turdbout some inclement weather,, AYE! keep up the good work and so on and so forth and here to for,, shallow draftd me nice no?? FOR W(hatever)TF YOU THINK ITS FARR AHAHAHAH ,,, ehh wheavah, thingll skooch right up eerie canal vith eatse,, and the dutch birds;;ll come outta no eff in where,, which i forget the zip code, but i swear man,, they are not from jersey, AAHAHAHA ((is that too coherent?? lol ;D))
The smell of fresh cut wood must be intoxicating in your shop! Although you guys are probably accustomed to it. I'd love to just stand there and breath it all in for an hour! :-) My shop smells of freshly ground epoxy & fiberglass. :-( Do you use the excess saw dust for heat or anything else other than a floor covering? Great progress fella's. Cheers! Rick & Lori M/V She-Kon
Saying that you want to do a good job building the boat because it'll be you doing the repairs got me to thinking, it'll probably be your kids and grandkids doing the repairing too So if it's 2070 and youtube still exists and Alix or Stephen is your grandpappy… hi there!
With just the two of us, it takes around a week to scarf, glue, back out, steam, and hang a plank. (This also includes making adjustments to the rabbet, picking the oak stock, running it through the thickness planer, and other steps.)
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Dear Stephen and Alex, I am thoroughly enjoying watching your build and the many creative ways you are approaching the challenges faced by first time wooden boat builders. I’m only 1 of 127K viewers so must be providing something very special. Speaking for myself, I’d say the actual build is important, but enjoying your adventurous spirits is the best. Thank you for everything. Cheers, Will
These videos are so well done. Been following since the beginning and have to agree, they always seem to end in much less time than has actually elapsed. The through riveting of the bilge ceilings looks like an excellent solution. That's the difference between a designer that knows they will have to maintain their creation and an automotive engineer than knows they will never have to work on their design. I can't imagine that commercially built boats 100-200 years ago were as precisely fitted as Arabella. Kudos to your craftsmanship throughout!
I really like your thought process to facilitate later rework. I also love your square rivets that grab the planks and ribs. I do think that "doing it your way" is doubling the process time. Hats off to you for sticking to your precepts. Kudos and Bravo Zulu.
When you come to the end of an Acorn To Arabella video and think, "Aw man, is that it?" and realize almost 30 minutes have gone by....the mark of engaging and well-made videos. Keep it up gentlemen.
gritnix I think that every Friday
@@robertmalis4493 Me three
Well said @ gritnix. I've been reacting the same way since I first saw their earliest logging efforts and became addicted to following these super guys and their plans. Their change to weekly uploads was marvellous, but I STILL want to see even more EVERY time! ;-)
Petition to change to hour long vids
I would like hour long videos as well and they do have a person to do that now. I hope they don't think that being an hour long would make the videos boring! lol But honestly, I have to defer to their reasoning despite my enjoyment of this series. I so love watching the fabrication, even the sped up /time lapse stuff is gratifying. Alas, living vicariously has its downside.
"Our backs are young and we'd like to keep them that way." Amen from all the old guys who wish they had taken _way_ better care of their backs when they were young.
You're so right about that!
Yep ! These two were born sensible. Fair play.
@ben nichols You are lucky, me back, hands and my feet.
@ben nichols I already am mate. I still do what I like but slowly.
49 with bad back, hips, knees, hands, elbows, and shoulders. Spent most of my life doing manual labor woth really no thought to the long term effects, now I am disabled way too early. I sure hope they are conscious about self care and not just singing the song, so to say.
Thanks Christie & Ben!!! You two are awesome! Thanks for you work on A2A! Awesome job on the backhoe Randy! I love how you two find innovative solutions to problems encountered during the build of the boat. Looking good Stephen & Alex! Good luck with Sail Cargo and thanks for the video!
Love the shows. Thank you so very much for your solid engineering... ISO'ed, discussed and hammered out right here on tape (for the most part, I would imagine).
Also Cheers for the relentless and critically justified physical proof. The attention placed on didactics is smoothly obvious. This is THE TEXTBOOK and then some.
You Patreons who are making this possible are the rockstars of this chapter in human history. You are letting sounds be heard and feelings being felt which are so fucking fundamental and yet so seemingly unrecognized. Thank you folks for cuffing some life changing content and for paying it forward for some who can't, or just won't. Funny thing though if ya keep your eyes open, there is always a way to make a day better.
Through riveting the planks to the bilge bands actually makes for a stronger overall structure because it ties the planks and bilge bands together. Great idea! Greg
Alix and Steve with the DfS idealogy. Consider the entire lifecycle of the product from the very earliest design stages, great thinking.
Working against the debt loop and the banks. Well done!
For sure
The method for fixing the bilge bands makes perfect sense; obviously on a commercial job, time is of the essence. Making your own tool for a specific function is one of the extra enjoyments. Nice package for the trip down south. Have a good time.
Dale Skidmore
"Making your own tool for a specific function is one of the extra enjoyments." Our two friends here are so brilliant ! Their plywood contraption to precisely plane the numerous scarf joints is pure genius. The last one here to clamp the "grating pieces" is in the same league. Awesome resourcefulness. Being a seasonned DIYer with no money, I used my own tricks over the years but absolutely not at the same scale of Stephen and Alix !!
Did they get the idea from a Leo?
What if for some reason you will have to replace bilge band. If they are riveted with planks that might be a problem.
“Our backs are young and we’d like to keep it that way.”
Amen to that.
(From a middle-aged guy with a knackered back.)
As usual, the time passes too quickly when watching y'all's videos. The ever-increasing quality of the content and production values does not get old. Keep on keepin' on, crew! Am looking forward to reports from Costa Rica. It will be too cool if they can make sail transport competitive in their niche market.
You just know you are really getting into a video that's almost half an hour long when you feel like you just want more and feel the video went by to quickly. You start to think they just did a short video, until you check the clock on the video. Thanks again for sharing this journey with the rest of us. Your attention to detail is refreshing. I feel like I could just about use your series to build a boat my self. I'm loving the series, even if it is taking years. That's just how long a build like this takes with two guys most of the time. I can only imagine the rigging I'd have to figure out as the sole builder, if/when I start my own boat. Heck, around these parts it might take 10 years just to scavenge the lead for the keel. I'm quite sure if I started today, that the boat would not be finished before I die (currently 49 years of age, and disabled). Sure don't have the money to buy an ocean going vessel. I'll just have to live through my TH-cam boat channels.
Interesting. As a programmer I believed that it was my job to make the user's easy. In building something that makes maintenance [that will be needed] harder is a cop out. You are right. Do what is hard now to make the future easier. Oh and thanks again for another beautiful and endearing film.
I have no interest in boats, but this is so much more than boat building. Just seeing a couple of guys do this is crazy.
Ditto. I'm a weak swimmer and not a boat guy in any way, but I find their work extremely entertaining and enjoyable.
wtcamer me too. I live in the mountains far from the ocean.
I, in point of fact, don't like boats at all. But this series is not about boats at all. At least to me it's not.
I've always had a fascination with nautical things, but no time or money to venture into that world. I am more or less land-locked myself, but do have close access to the Ohio river that can lead me to open waters via the Mississippi river and Gulf of Mexico. Just don't have the funding or time required to finish a boat build before I die. Plus the whole disabled thing, you know.
OMG someone who thought about future maintenance needs when they actually build something
Another great video thank you all. Have a wonderful trip. I hope many people will benefit and this will be the seed for a very good thing that continue's grow.
Bilge bands even more wood applications arg! Props to all the donation suppliers for the Sailcargo project pretty cool. That new clamp Steve made is genius. I can get so interested in these videos that 28 minutes seem like 10.
Everybody see the big stuff, but understanding the little details in interesting too. Looks good guys and gals.
The quality of production just keeps getting better and better.
That's a great idea, using your rapidly expanding knowledge to empower local fishermen, hope they don't have shares in GRP boat supply companies! I'm a bit far away in the UK but envy you being able to pass the skills on. Well done.
Thank you so very much for another great video. Work is looking great!
If you don’t want to buy merchandise, don’t buy it. I just enjoy the the craftsmanship and watching the boat come together. Getting a chance to see how it’s done is such an opportunity.
Wow...what a lot of work! -Rebecca
The Project gets better - complete respect and hope the Costa Rica thing goes well
Man. These videos fly by. Cant wait to come see you next spring!
That's the best way to build..Thinking what it will take down the road when repair is necessary and making that eventuality quicker n easier.. Suffer now for peace of mind later.
Even with square non-tapered angles on the graving piece clamps you will tend to get uneven clamping pressure on the graving pieces. You will get more pressure on the side with the bolts. A suggestion would be to add small shim near the center of the clamp so the clamping pressure is only near the center of the plank. Another option would be to add a slight crown to the outside edge of the graving piece so that the clamping pressure would only be applied to the top of the crown.
I'm a little late here, but... the angle iron clamp is cool and I'll have to try it some time. What I've found is wrapping the glue up with cellophane to contain the glue/epoxy, then wrapping it tightly with a rubber inner tube from a 27" bike (cut into 1" strips) works a charm. Also, pulled tight enough it keeps constant pressure, even if the wood shrinks.
Nice work as always guys. :)
I love getting into my office in the morning and seeing a new video from you guys!
Awesome, my weekly fix is here. Thanks so much for your detailed videos. Only 7 days until the next instalment. Sigh!
Awesome hodgepodge episode!! 💜
Hey Steve,that's a perfectly logical way to set the stage for future maintenance,as you started talking about the problems that come with the traditional way of fixing the bilge bands,I thought to myself,why not use a longer rivet to fix everything in place with the one fixing,great minds think alike hey👍
Thanks for the video.
10 minutes in. what a smart idea.
damn....good idea with the blacksmith thing. well done!
I am once again so THANKFUL that you do not speed up the sounds of the video, I presume this makes editing take a little longer but please know that the end result of *2 motion with normal sound makes watching the video easy. sorry for the randomness of the english.
I suppose best way to put this is if you look up another video where they speed up the sound of grinding is HORIBLE To listen to. Here No issues.
Those clamps are a great idea, though keep in mind the inside of angle iron is not often super flat compared to the outside. I'm guessing you're getting some uneven clamping pressure as a result. I'd consider flipping the moving jaw if you have the threads to do so and using that against the graving piece. Or shims.
I like the idea of riveting through all layers of the structure with rivets...
Nice job on that custom clamp.
Your solution to stringer fixing is spot on, I can't think why you wouldn't mirror the stringers with skin planks. A plank and a stringer in turn fixing each strake as you go. On the other hand my experience is on different hull models and I have seen enough to know you will continue your high standard of work.
GREAT job,thanks for the education guys. Awesome content👌⚓⛵📐🎥
I am currently in school, with a 3 day long series of 4 performances of the sound of music (Pit orchestra). I am exhausted and I really needed this, so thanks guys!!
@ben nichols aw man, cheers, that actually made me feel so much better.
Would not have had a clue as to the purpose of constructed tool, brilliant!
Every time you open one of the heating boxes it reminds me of that scene in pulp fiction where they open the briefcase!!! Random but struck me a funny!
I hope we get some footage of the costa rica trip
great work guys..
I wonder if any people in the history of the world have ever put this amount of care and attention to detail into the construction of one vessel. I sincerely doubt it. This will be the boat by which all other boats ever built will be measured. Cheer folks. Keep it up.
Wilber and Orville Wright. And they didnt have any plans and much of the data they had from other sources was incorrect. Much of what they discovered from trial and error is still used today as a rule of thumb. No it wasnt a boat but a craft none the less. Just think how popular their youtube channel would be. And the comments?
Just found you guys. Took a week to watch all your videos. Well done so far.
11:23 Blimey that house over the road looks like the one in the Amytyville Horror film 😂
Thanks for the video guys 👏👏👏👍🇬🇧
That last bit when you started to read out the tool list, I thought you were starting to sing a song. Now there's an idea lol. Keep up the awesome work guys, Cheers.
Give and go the extra mile live with no regrets 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❣
Good to see the adze man not aiming at his feet.
My two cents solution for the bilge bands .
Extra long screws in which the first nut will hold the planking and frame with a countersink in the planking or in the bilge band ,
another way of doing it is by using T-Nut holding the frame with the planking ,
and the bilge band will be held by the second set of nuts ,
T nuts are made out of stainless steel or brass plus there's a variety of different styles ,
For quite a few years now I have been fantasizing about building Wooden Boats out of Salvage lumber from the Amazon jungle instead of good Lumber going up in smokes .
Hope you have a couple more before you go. Send videos from Costa Rica to see that massive ship. It has been years since something so big has been built or I'm living out in the woods in the fur North. Well I am in Northern Michigan way, way out in the woods. lol
hi the boat is looking very good
Day after thanksgiving. Well done gentlemen. I didn’t expect a video today. Nice!
I love the music
Looking at that backhoe / loader, it reminds me of the video of the day you moved the keel from the pit to the house!
Yup, the back hoe is a god send. At least you got one with a cab. You wont have to get the snow out of it in the dead of winter.
Your solution for the bilge bands also means a lot fewer penetrations in the frames so they should be less likely to fail due to holes close together propagating any cracks.
I like the "day-ending time-lapse" footage.......DD
Very nice update. Could you have used straps instead of clamps to fit in the heat boxes?
I admire your upscale backyard engineering and problem solving!!
Would another solution for the graving piece clamps be a strongback channel along the graving piece with three or so nylon strap comealongs around the plank and strongback to apply the clamping force?
Like your thru- bolt rivet solution better. Less holes. What's not to like in a boat more than less holes?
Hi. Nice explanation of bilge bands and how to install them. I did n't even know they existed. BobUK.
I just had a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon moment. Scott Oudekirk is Glass Goat, he made a beautiful stained glass panel for Peter at "Travels with Geordie". Just like when I found out Thad introduced Leo to Tally Ho. So much karma in shipbuilding. ;)
A couple tapered shims might help prevent torquing or twisting your scarf jig as happens at 3:23.
great solution to fitting the bilge rails , been done before by some yards in the UK , but as you say time expensive and not done to often to save the boat owners wallet.
Necessity is the reason for invention.
Ted Carruthers I was going to type, for all invention, but that didn’t really work. Mother, is the old saying yeah. Doesn’t really apply now days.
loving it!
Love the music
Agree! Especially at 24:13, gorgeous soft electronic organ. But is it an arrangement of another well known piece that I am to thick to actually recall? It's seems to be right on the tip of my ... ear.
So with putting your planks into the heat boxes, you are having issues with the wood losing moisture and therefor shrinking and losing the clamping force. May I suggest adding some automotive valve springs to your new home made clamps? Then you can clamp them down tight and the springs will take up for the loss of width..
i love backhoes.... you should a'heard them just around midnight.
Carry on! Ignore the nay sayers! I'm looking forward to receiving my long sleeve T and hoodie! Merry Christmas and all the best for 2020, from Canada!
Thank you Mark! Same to you!
What about using some old valve springs off of a automotive head on your new clamps. I believe they would help maintain a constant force even with the shrinking issue.
They eliminated the shrinking issue by using different epoxy
@@darken3150 I remember.... It is just something else I would do...
If you fasten the bilge bands via the planking rivets will you run into a problem with where the rivets land internally? As the bilge bands and planking run in different orientations you'll end up with rivets that sometimes land right on the edge of one of the bilge bands- how are you planning on dealing with that or are you not worried about being too close to the edges of the internal timber? Love what you guys are doing, I've only recently found the channel and have binged watched for the last two weeks!
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I keep meaning to ask, and we may have been told at some point, but who is the guitarist with the big, fat soulful sound. I've really been enjoying it.
I'm very excited to see Arabella splash someday but I wonder what your channel will become... Thanks for sharing!! P.S. What do you do with all that copper scrap? Sell it I imagine. Thx again
Fantastic build and video coverage. Question: Years ago (1960s) I worked in a shop where we used Recorsinol (sp) glue. To speed the drying/curing process, we had a machine with an ultrasonic tool on the end of a long cable which cooked and cured the glue in moments; it would boil, pop, snap and then harden. Is this still a viable option for this glue, and if so, interested why you have not employed it? Again, fantascit series of videos. Keep up the excellent work, and thanks for posting it.
Rivets through planks, frames then bilge bands sounds like a wise idea.
Can you line up each bilge band with one external plank?
Ive got a question on the little "birdsbeak" lookin hooks on the end of the planks. Ive watched almost all of the episodes, and I remember yall talking about doing it so it would support the plank and fill the space, but I have a thought. To me, it looks like the way yall have done it so far would break easier since it could break along the grain of the wood, whereas if the wood were simply pointed and attached at least all the grain would be long and IF it broke, it would have to break across the grain instead of with it. Just a thought. I love yalls channel and watch it every time it comes out! Love the ingenuity with the glue joints and the chutzpah to take on such a huge project! congrats on everything!
Jack plane, joiner plane, marking gauges, spoke shave, draw knife, power drill, oil stone...
Hey! What about the partridge in a pear tree?
Hi fella's, to lessen the hard edge effect we found spieling the stringer too fit the internal shape of the hull to a T. You'll get guys ! 🇨🇦
Are your plank edges tapered for driving the caulking into? Great channel.
Why have the bilge bands abut one another? Run them as separated boards between the rivet pairs. The bilge band total area width would be double or triple, but you would solve the hard spot problem and get the strengthening better distributed. You would also have much more accessibility to the inside of the planking in case you need to make an emergency repair if you knock a hole in it in shoal waters or hit a snag in a river scenario.
Great stuff guys, I like your plan for riveting the bilge bands. What's the name of the song at 24:10? Couldn't identify it with shazam
I hope they get it done before there in the nursing home.
Guys you might want to offer this items which might sell like hot cakes from your store. Grannies around the world have always collected memorabilia nick knacks like tea spoons with the little picture of whatever on the end of the spoon. They go nuts about tea cups & saucers with picture prints of the same to go with their spoons. For the guy's there are pop out utility knives, camping knife, fork & spoon sets & last some type of nautical weather station & clock hanging item. All of these things can go from very cheap items to the under $75 which is longer lasting than clothing while clothing can be equally as expensive.
guud day far'it!! steady as ever way up the squamscott, wont be long til we're *issin icecubes HAHAHAH thx for the peeks
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The smell of fresh cut wood must be intoxicating in your shop! Although you guys are probably accustomed to it. I'd love to just stand there and breath it all in for an hour! :-) My shop smells of freshly ground epoxy & fiberglass. :-( Do you use the excess saw dust for heat or anything else other than a floor covering? Great progress fella's. Cheers! Rick & Lori M/V She-Kon
Alix and I have the same taste in ear protection.
Would love to see you remake the opening title credits but replace almost every shot with Akiva. Fan Service at it's best.
Saying that you want to do a good job building the boat because it'll be you doing the repairs got me to thinking, it'll probably be your kids and grandkids doing the repairing too
So if it's 2070 and youtube still exists and Alix or Stephen is your grandpappy… hi there!
Fore end of first plank on starboard side looks proud to me.
They said in an earlier episode that they'd be fairing everything after the planking is done.
Everything will be faired/smoothed down after planking is completed.
How long does it take to glue up and hang one plank? How many are required to complete the hull?
With just the two of us, it takes around a week to scarf, glue, back out, steam, and hang a plank. (This also includes making adjustments to the rabbet, picking the oak stock, running it through the thickness planer, and other steps.)
What happens if you two want to part ways. How will you decide who keeps Arabella?
My collection of antique firearms includes two cased sets of early 19th century dueling pistols. I can make them available if needed.