The Arabella construction is a great lesson of what goes into a traditional wooden boat . I'm sure for years to come builders will take note of sequence and quality of fit and finish . Your building a national treasure of Yankee craftsmanship .
That is a lot of hard work. I am 75 and retired now. I was a stair builder in Wisconsin. I used to build radius custom stair cases with double bull nose as well as custom hand rails. I loved the fact that I had to be 99.9% accurate. I built stairs out of OAK, WALNUT, BIRCH, CHERRY, building anything from wood is a calming unique experience. Have a great time in your build.
22:50 nicely done Ben for having the music and mallet blows going in the same tempo. If that was actually the intention I just wanted to drop a comment that some of these small things do not go unnoticed, I could imagine you're there editing these and scratching your head wondering if anyone will notice.
It's refreshing in this day and age to see two young men (I'm 76 so yes, young men) willing to take on such a huge project, stick with it through thick and thin, solve problems as they come along and learn new skills as required. All while maintaining a sense of humour. I don't want you to hurry or cut corners but I would love to be around to see Arabella under sail. If you ever make it to the east coats of Australia - you have a sanctuary.
Will just say that mast steps are notoriously wet and rot prone. Not due as much to general water level in the bilge, but because water (including fresh rainwater) runs down masts. Sure you have canvas and more modern elastomer materials wrapping the mast and “sealing” the gap where it penetrates the deck, but they leak, especially over time as things wear and the spars and entire boat flexes through millions of cycles. An under appreciated reason for a mast step is that it’s a replaceable part.
I never thought there was so much load bearing engineering involved in a wooden boat. Brilliant to say the least ! Also so well explained by Steve. Bravo !
If in doubt. Ask Leo. Casting is better. Oh well everyone has their own way. Salt tar dont even have metal floors I dont think. I enjoy seeing all your different approaches.
Dear Arabellas Acorns ;-) 👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you (including great Akiva of course).
I've grown up surrounded by live oak trees. They really are just a gnarly tree. If the outside looks twisted as heck, the inside grain is going to be swirling lines too. Beautiful trees and even more impressive wood.
you guys are so smart and so highly skilled--your services will be in great demand long after you return from your voyages--you will be the leading boat building team for all new builders coming up; you will have so much to offer.
We have four seasons here in California as well, Alix. We drive to them. When we want snow, we drive to it. When we want to be warm, we drive to it. All four seasons are within an hour drive of my house. I lived in New England states for 9 years. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be New England with California weather. I'm enjoying the build, Alix and Steve.
Great video, beautiful mast step. The issue is not bilge water getting on the step as it is salt water and prevents rot. The issue is the mast boot leaking and letting fresh water onto the step and over the life of the boat the mast boot will leak sooner or later. Fortunately with the great wood you are using and liberal applications of salt water over the years I’m sure the mast step will be ok for a century or two.
Hey Steve, here's a tip for you. As a an ex welder fitter. What I see a lot of amateur welders do on you tube, is weld items up without bracing them. With stainless, aluminum and with bronze it should be braced to prevent warpage. Even with carbon steel, which warps the least we brace it before welding it up. whatever your welding bracing is paramount thing to do in the trade.
I don't have any facts to prove or disprove your hullstep vs. keelstep decision, but something to consider if you haven't already. The lateral forces of your mast are going to be much larger than the weight of your rigging. It will also pulse constantly with the force of the wind. It will go side to side while you're beating and be fore-aft while headed downwind. Again, I don't have anything to say whether you're right or wrong, but something to consider
Love your work ATTENTION--Being a certified fire prevention expert, I would recommend that you keep next to you AT ALL TIME a good fire extinguisher as well as a bucket of soaked wet papers. Because of the dry wood plus the varnish, a starting fire would be very hard, if not impossible to kill. Even if you only tackweld the bronze you put youeself in danger without the proper extinguishing equipment.
@@AcornToArabella Although the demand for professional 'bronze floor benders' probably is pretty low nowadays, you certainly would be a shoe in should an opening for one arise! 😉
Great looking mast step. Make sure you put really big tabs on the floors to spread the load. You don’t want the top of the floors cutting into the mast step. 👍
Turning on the lights @3:45 I've taken to Adam Savage's suggestion that you can never have too much light. My garage/workspace had enough light for a garage if you were storing and parking, but for actually accomplishing anything I added a pair of 5000 lumen hanging LED shop lights from Harbor Freight to light up the work corner, which has made a huge difference, it's been great. Oh man, when you can see your breath, that sounds like a good day to do some steam bending on the planks. Doing stuff that takes a lot of protective gear is the worst. I was doing a paver path with diagonal cuts and I needed to cut like 200 12 inch concrete pavers. Getting the jacket, mask, goggles, earmuffs, hat, and gloves, to keep all the dust/noise away from myself made making those cuts the worst.
Question: Regarding the mast step (hull step?), Steve mentions deflection and the strength of the support beam. I can't help but think the primary pressure is not so much vertical on the step, but on on the sides of the step, where the locust sandwich (bread?) will be. A close hauled boat going to windward in rolling seas will create immense horizontal pressure on the step at the width (windward/leeward). I'm certain the floors can handle the pressure and the decision to step the mast on them is a brilliant choice btw.
Yes -- with a woden mast (at least on every boat I've sailed with a woden mast) the mast is not in much compression. The shrouds are mostly just tighter than loose.
Maybe the floors can take the load, but all lateral loads are now being transferred through those bronze floors to the attached frames, and stressing the planking attached to those frames, instead of being absorbed by the entire keel. IMHO, it seems like a major departure from standard practice for questionable benefit.
Good to see the safety glasses while drilling the brass. It only takes one time without them that you wished you had them on. Beautiful work gentlemen!
Thanks Steve, I've got sawdust all over my screen now! My lockdown Friday: Wheelie bin collection, A2A, life doesn't get much better. Keep well everybody.
Another great video to go along with a pretty good day! If I hadn't watched this series from the start I'd have ZERO clue that this is your first crack at a massive project like this.
Wow, that's mighty kind. Pickling one's self in information as we do, for the few years that we have, makes you either an inappropriately focused lunatic or someone becoming proficient. ;) Thanks so much for watching.
When I designed and built our house, I had the attitude “4000 years ago the Egyptians built pyramids that lasted, why can’t we build something today, with all this technology, that will also last”... it was satisfying to me knowing the home I was building will be around for hundreds of years. I’m imagining that you would feel the same way while building Arabella...it will be around long after we are all gone.. your legacy, at least one of them
Art work and awesome as always i will always watch may watch in repeat years in the future 😀 alot better than anything also on you tube or tv cheers lads classics as ever👍💯
@@marcryvon my time is measured by putting the rubbish bin out on Thursday evenings, pulling it in on Friday mornings and the watching Arabella come to shape.
I used to be an electrician before retirement. I threaded many pieces of rigid conduit in 45 years. When it is bent you can’t use a motorized threader. Until they finally bought a “dog bone threader”!
If I recall from my timber framing time the true live oak is around two thousand pounds per square inch shear strength. Locust black or yellow is around half of that. So measure you span from floor to floor and then the width and thickness multiple by roughly 1800 and that's you shear strength of your timber for the mast step. And approximately 900 for the locust. Hope that helps. By the way she is going coming a long way from when I watched you the first time pouring lead and be sarcastic with the haters that cried over the use or should say the recycling of old lead. Haha can't believe they were thinking I was not sarcastic about you should use gold. Hahahaha. Love what you're doing guys.
Sorry, but you inspired me.... When Leo wend down to Georgia He was lookin' for a tree to buy He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind And willin' to make a deal When he came across this old man Sawin' on a tree and plankin' it up And Leo jumped upon a live oak stump And said, "Man let me tell you what" .... Gonna stop there.
The way we say it here in New England is that if you put a locust fence post next to a granite fence post, the locust one will fall over about a year before the granite one. ;) We've also heard it called "New England teak."
My father in-law worked for a fence company and they only guaranteed locust fence posts for 50 years. It wasn't that they didn't last 100 years but customers would just never believe it. I've seen sparks come off my chain when sawing it and in the stove it burns like coal. Amazing wood.
@@AcornToArabella I've also heard it as, "put a stone on top of your locust fence post. When the stone's worn away, replace the post." Fascinating work on distributing the weight of the mast. Keep up the great work!
"Keel step; deck step;..... hull step" As a systems analyst I've learned there are many ways to do something right and not to judge until you understand the reasoning. Your explanation and decision to "hull step" the mast is brilliant. It makes perfect sense but isn't the way I'd have done it ONLY because I hadn't thought of it. Thanks for the great explanation and good decision.
@bulletproof Paster So now the weak point is the bronze floors. As long as the mast is only in compression, it would seem ok, but if there is shear forces, which there is , at least on my boat, will the floors want to fold? There are also changes in sheer depending if you're on of off the wind, so the mast step could be working the floor. Will that result in work hardening?
@@klinej54 I believe any force great enough to compromise the live oak beam sharing the load across 4 or 5 bronze floors will be beyond the structural integrity of the keel/hull anyway. It appears far stronger than any deck step I've seen and they appear to hold up.
I commented elsewhere before seeing this comment; the inflexibility of that large keel timber leads me to think that it would actually be spreading the load along the entire length of the keel.. Whereas the mast-step is just spreading the load across 4-5 bronze floors and into the weaker frames. Whereas the keel is very well affixed to /all/ the bronze floors, which are wedge shaped and would have to pry all the frames, and planking, away from the keel before it has any hope of moving, or pushing the keel down and out of the boat.
@@klinej54 I agree. I would not rely entirely on the trilaminar mast step exclusively resting on the bronze floors, when the mast step could be additionally have reinforcing blocks (locust) between the floors to prevent the shear load problem(s). There is plenty of room between the adjacent floors to add blocks while keeping the limber hole channel open. This would be very cheap insurance to add now, to avoid a very difficult problem later on. Beam deflection is probably not an issue but fwd-aft loading, acting as horizontal shear, might be.
I was raised in northern Arizona, Flagstaff is at 7,000 feet. one day the radio station is late coming on, finally it starts. The forecast was light to moderate snow showers overnight. the announcer comes on and says sorry for being late I had to shovel 18 inches of light to moderate snow fall so I could get in. Sure they didn't say heavy snowfall. Weather service never used the light to moderate remark again
All's well that ends well; and maybe you did have it ready, but I would have had some kind of serious watering device (like a fire hose) clearly on hand b/4 I took a chance on burning that dream. It seems that every time a special building burns it's usually "during the work, sparks from welding accidentally started a fire that quickly got out of control" as in Notre Dame Cathedral and other old wooden structures like our nearly finished restored historic church here in Portland. - Anyhow love the floors, they are artwork and your explanation was totally useful.
Having spent 3 hours every day from age 10 to age 17 hand splitting live oak Crooks with a Mall and wedges I can testify the validity of you statement about the tufness of live oak . When it was discovered by the naibors that I had the ability to do that job they hired me to bust up the chunks that they were unable to split up themselves.
This thing is really coming together nicely! Impressive! If I may ask, if possible, assuming you do your own hand planner blade sharpening could you show a small segment of how you do this? Thanks
As long as the bildge is pumped out, the elevated step should stay dry fairly well. She may see water from time to time when rough seas crash over the decks and find their way doen through the boat fsster than the pumps can expell the water, but for the most part, she has a nice loft off of the keel.
@@memeier9894 I'm the opposite. Anything over about 60degF and I'm in shorts. Anything over 80 and I'm sweating. Oh, and that's at 20% humidity, not 90%>
Here in north central Kentucky we see anywhere from negative teens (rare) to hundred+teens also rare. Our typical yearly lows are single digits and highs into the low 100s (with high 90s% to single digit humidity). So, we have seasons, historically. Here in the last few years, it seems like we mostly skip the biggest parts of spring and autumn temps and go mostly from 30s to 80s. Our 50s to 70s time frames have gotten really short and typically hide within the ends of the summer and wimyer seasons instead of actually having much of a spring or fall spread.
Mast weight doesn't come out of the same bin as cargo weight. "Weight aloft" adds to the heeling moment (the forces trying to tip the boat over in a strong wind), and the lead keel is the other force on that arm, now is not the time to be changing the weight of the mast.
at 1:47 it looks as if the steam bent frame is split at the bottom. the bottom ends look a little shrunk and loose, too.. but that might end when the boat is put in water and the resulting swelling is done.
Yeah, I don't see any splits other than the cuts purposefuly made when the frames were bent. If you go back and watch the first frame videos you will see why they split most of the length of the frames.
I as well as you watched all the videos of Acorn to Arabella, so i know how these frames were made. But if you do actually skip to 1:47 and watch closely, the left frame shown has a check or a crack or a little score coming from the edge of the bottomcut to fit the keel timber going on for maybe half of what you see from the garbord plank. this whatever it is is off center, so it definately is not the sawn in split to support the bending. if its just some imperfection, i guess its all alright, but it would be a shame to have an already broken frame in the boat before launching it. if it needs to be replaced, bette rnow than later i suppose
@@philippsiegfried4760 I think I see what you are talking about. It may be a score mark from the hand or power plane. Looks like a line in the wood that caught some saw dust. What I am seeing has a line the continues up to a line differential in the red paint as well. From my screen it is hard to tell if it is a plane score, a check, or a crack, but the line is pretty straight, leading me to believe it is a plane score, especially since it appears to be holding some saw dust. (But that could be exposed wood from a displaced crack, too, I suppose.) Hopefully they see your comment and check it out to be sure.
We can see a beautiful even keel wood sailboat. Will they take into account the keeling of the sails and the turning point of the rudder? Have they considered the importance of the stem in the design?
I am guessing this was from 2 weeks ago for the snow. Where this last week we have had a good early thaw. Interesting new opening. Tho I miss the signature music that went with the opening.. Oh well we cant have what we love all the time
I liked the old intro better too but I'm getting old and resistant to un-necessary change, but who am I to question the youngsters need to change things up just to keep it fresh! lol
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The Arabella construction is a great lesson of what goes into a traditional wooden boat . I'm sure for years to come builders will take note of sequence and quality of fit and finish . Your building a national treasure of Yankee craftsmanship .
That is a lot of hard work. I am 75 and retired now. I was a stair builder in Wisconsin. I used to build radius custom stair cases with double bull nose as well as custom hand rails. I loved the fact that I had to be 99.9% accurate. I built stairs out of OAK, WALNUT, BIRCH, CHERRY, building anything from wood is a calming unique experience. Have a great time in your build.
I installed those steps back in the 80s when I framed houses. Specifically, I ran a crew that installed windows, doors and stairs.
22:50 nicely done Ben for having the music and mallet blows going in the same tempo. If that was actually the intention I just wanted to drop a comment that some of these small things do not go unnoticed, I could imagine you're there editing these and scratching your head wondering if anyone will notice.
It's refreshing in this day and age to see two young men (I'm 76 so yes, young men) willing to take on such a huge project, stick with it through thick and thin, solve problems as they come along and learn new skills as required. All while maintaining a sense of humour. I don't want you to hurry or cut corners but I would love to be around to see Arabella under sail. If you ever make it to the east coats of Australia - you have a sanctuary.
That is awesome. Just curious do you watch free range sailing ?
@@popsoldboats3406 Hi there, Not sure what free range sailing refers to? I follow most sailing races i.e. Vendee Globe and Americas Cup.
Will just say that mast steps are notoriously wet and rot prone. Not due as much to general water level in the bilge, but because water (including fresh rainwater) runs down masts. Sure you have canvas and more modern elastomer materials wrapping the mast and “sealing” the gap where it penetrates the deck, but they leak, especially over time as things wear and the spars and entire boat flexes through millions of cycles. An under appreciated reason for a mast step is that it’s a replaceable part.
I hope you guys make a build montage video at the end. Just the time lapse footage with the music. My favorite parts of the video!
I never thought there was so much load bearing engineering involved in a wooden boat. Brilliant to say the least !
Also so well explained by Steve. Bravo !
If in doubt. Ask Leo. Casting is better. Oh well everyone has their own way. Salt tar dont even have metal floors I dont think. I enjoy seeing all your different approaches.
Dear Arabellas Acorns ;-)
👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you (including great Akiva of course).
I've grown up surrounded by live oak trees. They really are just a gnarly tree. If the outside looks twisted as heck, the inside grain is going to be swirling lines too. Beautiful trees and even more impressive wood.
There's a difference between twisted, fast-growing wood and twisted, gnarly slow-growing wood. Live oak is the latter and it's a natural wonder.
you guys are so smart and so highly skilled--your services will be in great demand long after you return from your voyages--you will be the leading boat building team for all new builders coming up; you will have so much to offer.
We have four seasons here in California as well, Alix. We drive to them. When we want snow, we drive to it. When we want to be warm, we drive to it. All four seasons are within an hour drive of my house. I lived in New England states for 9 years. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be New England with California weather. I'm enjoying the build, Alix and Steve.
I like the reasoning on mounting the mast. That's smart thinking.
Great video, beautiful mast step. The issue is not bilge water getting on the step as it is salt water and prevents rot. The issue is the mast boot leaking and letting fresh water onto the step and over the life of the boat the mast boot will leak sooner or later. Fortunately with the great wood you are using and liberal applications of salt water over the years I’m sure the mast step will be ok for a century or two.
Great point about water intrusion from above. Thanks for watching, Peter!
Thanks for putting sawdust in my eyes at the end! Love this channel!
Hey Steve, here's a tip for you. As a an ex welder fitter. What I see a lot of amateur welders do on you tube, is weld items up without bracing them. With stainless, aluminum and with bronze it should be braced to prevent warpage. Even with carbon steel, which warps the least we brace it before welding it up. whatever your welding bracing is paramount thing to do in the trade.
Thanks for the great tip, Fon.
I don't have any facts to prove or disprove your hullstep vs. keelstep decision, but something to consider if you haven't already. The lateral forces of your mast are going to be much larger than the weight of your rigging. It will also pulse constantly with the force of the wind. It will go side to side while you're beating and be fore-aft while headed downwind. Again, I don't have anything to say whether you're right or wrong, but something to consider
Love your work ATTENTION--Being a certified fire prevention expert, I would recommend that you keep next to you AT ALL TIME a good fire extinguisher as well as a bucket of soaked wet papers. Because of the dry wood plus the varnish, a starting fire would be very hard, if not impossible to kill. Even if you only tackweld the bronze you put youeself in danger without the proper extinguishing equipment.
Thank you, Michel, for your thoughtful comment.
Alex did such a good job bending those wings
It's a special talent!
@@AcornToArabella Although the demand for professional 'bronze floor benders' probably is pretty low nowadays, you certainly would be a shoe in should an opening for one arise! 😉
Great looking mast step. Make sure you put really big tabs on the floors to spread the load. You don’t want the top of the floors cutting into the mast step. 👍
1st for me I never seen bronze or brass been welded. Thank you. Great work from someone who knows.
Turning on the lights @3:45 I've taken to Adam Savage's suggestion that you can never have too much light. My garage/workspace had enough light for a garage if you were storing and parking, but for actually accomplishing anything I added a pair of 5000 lumen hanging LED shop lights from Harbor Freight to light up the work corner, which has made a huge difference, it's been great.
Oh man, when you can see your breath, that sounds like a good day to do some steam bending on the planks.
Doing stuff that takes a lot of protective gear is the worst. I was doing a paver path with diagonal cuts and I needed to cut like 200 12 inch concrete pavers. Getting the jacket, mask, goggles, earmuffs, hat, and gloves, to keep all the dust/noise away from myself made making those cuts the worst.
Just the best feeling - back in the boathouse - looking over your shoulders. It is like coming home. That mast step is a beast.
Very much looking forward to seeing that mast step in the boat!
Question: Regarding the mast step (hull step?), Steve mentions deflection and the strength of the support beam. I can't help but think the primary pressure is not so much vertical on the step, but on on the sides of the step, where the locust sandwich (bread?) will be. A close hauled boat going to windward in rolling seas will create immense horizontal pressure on the step at the width (windward/leeward). I'm certain the floors can handle the pressure and the decision to step the mast on them is a brilliant choice btw.
Yes -- with a woden mast (at least on every boat I've sailed with a woden mast) the mast is not in much compression. The shrouds are mostly just tighter than loose.
Maybe the floors can take the load, but all lateral loads are now being transferred through those bronze floors to the attached frames, and stressing the planking attached to those frames, instead of being absorbed by the entire keel. IMHO, it seems like a major departure from standard practice for questionable benefit.
Really interesting summary of the forces pulling the boat apart. As always, lots of fun watching you work!
Good to see the safety glasses while drilling the brass. It only takes one time without them that you wished you had them on. Beautiful work gentlemen!
Thanks Steve, I've got sawdust all over my screen now! My lockdown Friday: Wheelie bin collection, A2A, life doesn't get much better. Keep well everybody.
Wow. Your work ethic in the extreme cold is impressive. It’s really taking shape. Thanks for sharing your journey from an acorn to Arabella.
I love your videos! You both are such positive and nice people and watching your new videos is alway so relaxing
Wow, thanks! That's very kind. Thanks for watching.
I can't wait to see that mast step get installed. Alix did a great job bending those wings!
He's got the knack!
Another great video to go along with a pretty good day! If I hadn't watched this series from the start I'd have ZERO clue that this is your first crack at a massive project like this.
Wow, that's mighty kind. Pickling one's self in information as we do, for the few years that we have, makes you either an inappropriately focused lunatic or someone becoming proficient. ;) Thanks so much for watching.
Hey, I'm standin here.... swept right into my coffee.......
Sorry about the staple. Looking good. Lunch is on me when I can start traveling again. Have a great weekend.
When I designed and built our house, I had the attitude “4000 years ago the Egyptians built pyramids that lasted, why can’t we build something today, with all this technology, that will also last”... it was satisfying to me knowing the home I was building will be around for hundreds of years. I’m imagining that you would feel the same way while building Arabella...it will be around long after we are all gone.. your legacy, at least one of them
Art work and awesome as always i will always watch may watch in repeat years in the future 😀 alot better than anything also on you tube or tv cheers lads classics as ever👍💯
Wow, Lee. Thanks for saying so. Glad you're here!
Those bronze floors are works of art in them selves.
Great camera work and editing! Your sound edits are very cool, also. Thanks!
Again guys an amazing week of workmanship. That chunk of live oak was a beaut. Thanks for the video
Nice to see someone who tinking whats the safe way of welding in a woden boat!
Excellent work guys! Please sail her to England one day soon I hope
Still a couple to a few years of work to do before she sails.
I will be waiting with a case of ice cold beers for you
25:45 of bliss. Thank you.
Thanks for coming along on the journey with us.
Another outstanding update on A2A... thanks team!
Thought it was Saturday. I'm plesently surprised it's Friday and I found this video this morning
Me too!
Arabella is every friday, the Tally Ho is every other saturday.
me too ! Darn Covid confinement and being retired, I loose time awareness !
@@marcryvon my time is measured by putting the rubbish bin out on Thursday evenings, pulling it in on Friday mornings and the watching Arabella come to shape.
You guys are awesome. Thanks
Coming along nicely gentlemen
The Mast Step is a thing of beauty.
I love the sweeping out camera shot!!!!! DD
Ah the magic of video @20:00
Just imagine how quick Steve could paint your house 😝
Great to see the end of a set of tasks and progressing onto new work. Looking great guys!!
That was a good episode! Love the mast step.
thanks for uploading
love the "dust chute".
How is this not a PBS show yet
Cool idea, Allan. Send 'em a note!
Vocês são fantástico, eu os sigo desde o início e a cada dia fica melhor. Parabéns pelo ótimo trabalho abraços aos três. João do Brasil.
Oi João, obrigado por assistir nossos videos. Estamos desejando estar no Brasil! Algum dia, esperamos.
@@AcornToArabella Akiwa não vai se dar bem nas praias, é muito quente.
I used to be an electrician before retirement. I threaded many pieces of rigid conduit in 45 years. When it is bent you can’t use a motorized threader. Until they finally bought a “dog bone threader”!
If I recall from my timber framing time the true live oak is around two thousand pounds per square inch shear strength. Locust black or yellow is around half of that. So measure you span from floor to floor and then the width and thickness multiple by roughly 1800 and that's you shear strength of your timber for the mast step. And approximately 900 for the locust. Hope that helps. By the way she is going coming a long way from when I watched you the first time pouring lead and be sarcastic with the haters that cried over the use or should say the recycling of old lead. Haha can't believe they were thinking I was not sarcastic about you should use gold. Hahahaha. Love what you're doing guys.
Glad you’re watching! Thanks for the good info!
When Leo went down to Georgia for his live oak, the guy cutting it showed him some pretty crazy strength tests.
Sorry, but you inspired me....
When Leo wend down to Georgia
He was lookin' for a tree to buy
He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind
And willin' to make a deal
When he came across this old man
Sawin' on a tree and plankin' it up
And Leo jumped upon a live oak stump
And said, "Man let me tell you what" ....
Gonna stop there.
@@timschaller Awwwww....... I so wanted the fiddle solo.....
@@petert3355 I keep fiddling around solo but that is not something I am prepared to show, nor do I expect anything you want to see. };-)
@@petert3355 Played with a chainsaw!
@@timschaller I actually backspaced a bunch of stuff because I felt silly.
On my family's farm they used black locust for fence posts some had been in the ground for every bit of 100 years and still rock solid.
The way we say it here in New England is that if you put a locust fence post next to a granite fence post, the locust one will fall over about a year before the granite one. ;) We've also heard it called "New England teak."
My father in-law worked for a fence company and they only guaranteed locust fence posts for 50 years. It wasn't that they didn't last 100 years but customers would just never believe it. I've seen sparks come off my chain when sawing it and in the stove it burns like coal. Amazing wood.
@@AcornToArabella I've also heard it as, "put a stone on top of your locust fence post. When the stone's worn away, replace the post."
Fascinating work on distributing the weight of the mast. Keep up the great work!
very informative video, love the way you take out the trash!
live oak sistered with locust, in a 100yrs when they have to rebuild, that mast step will still be as good as the day it was put in
Thank you for brightening my Friday mornings .... Love the progress you are making ...
Coming along nicely
Keep up the great work guys! Much love from Maine!
That's a pretty beefy racing stripe!
Giant hamburger, especially after it gets oiled.
You episodes are the fast 25 minutes I spend every Friday. 😀
Great content guys.
Have a good weekend.😁
nice vid, loved the last shot :)
"Keel step; deck step;..... hull step" As a systems analyst I've learned there are many ways to do something right and not to judge until you understand the reasoning. Your explanation and decision to "hull step" the mast is brilliant. It makes perfect sense but isn't the way I'd have done it ONLY because I hadn't thought of it. Thanks for the great explanation and good decision.
@bulletproof Paster So now the weak point is the bronze floors. As long as the mast is only in compression, it would seem ok, but if there is shear forces, which there is , at least on my boat, will the floors want to fold? There are also changes in sheer depending if you're on of off the wind, so the mast step could be working the floor. Will that result in work hardening?
@@klinej54 I believe any force great enough to compromise the live oak beam sharing the load across 4 or 5 bronze floors will be beyond the structural integrity of the keel/hull anyway. It appears far stronger than any deck step I've seen and they appear to hold up.
I was hoping you math guys would come up with some "gee whiz" system of compression and tension to make the step look too heavy. I guess not.
I commented elsewhere before seeing this comment; the inflexibility of that large keel timber leads me to think that it would actually be spreading the load along the entire length of the keel.. Whereas the mast-step is just spreading the load across 4-5 bronze floors and into the weaker frames. Whereas the keel is very well affixed to /all/ the bronze floors, which are wedge shaped and would have to pry all the frames, and planking, away from the keel before it has any hope of moving, or pushing the keel down and out of the boat.
@@klinej54 I agree. I would not rely entirely on the trilaminar mast step exclusively resting on the bronze floors, when the mast step could be additionally have reinforcing blocks (locust) between the floors to prevent the shear load problem(s). There is plenty of room between the adjacent floors to add blocks while keeping the limber hole channel open. This would be very cheap insurance to add now, to avoid a very difficult problem later on. Beam deflection is probably not an issue but fwd-aft loading, acting as horizontal shear, might be.
Great way to start a Friday morning
I was raised in northern Arizona, Flagstaff is at 7,000 feet. one day the radio station is late coming on, finally it starts. The forecast was light to moderate snow showers overnight. the announcer comes on and says sorry for being late I had to shovel 18 inches of light to moderate snow fall so I could get in. Sure they didn't say heavy snowfall. Weather service never used the light to moderate remark again
great vid. always enjoyable.
coming on great! That boat is more and more showing its charakter - may it serve you accordingly when the time comes!
Thanks!
oh this new into is the best yet. love it
Glad you like it, thanks for watching!
Great work guys.
Nice percussion at 22:48 Great episode!
All's well that ends well; and maybe you did have it ready, but I would have had some kind of serious watering device (like a fire hose) clearly on hand b/4 I took a chance on burning that dream. It seems that every time a special building burns it's usually "during the work, sparks from welding accidentally started a fire that quickly got out of control" as in Notre Dame Cathedral and other old wooden structures like our nearly finished restored historic church here in Portland. - Anyhow love the floors, they are artwork and your explanation was totally useful.
Beautiful chunk of wood. Its gonna stay solid for a long time
Great work Steve, and even better of a job at capturing on film...impressive!
Having spent 3 hours every day from age 10 to age 17 hand splitting live oak Crooks with a Mall and wedges I can testify the validity of you statement about the tufness of live oak . When it was discovered by the naibors that I had the ability to do that job they hired me to bust up the chunks that they were unable to split up themselves.
This thing is really coming together nicely! Impressive! If I may ask, if possible, assuming you do your own hand planner blade sharpening could you show a small segment of how you do this? Thanks
Yes, we sharpen our own tools for sure. Great idea for maybe a short video or demonstration!
@@AcornToArabella Great!!
Yeah, that mast step/shelf thing is good idea.
As long as the bildge is pumped out, the elevated step should stay dry fairly well. She may see water from time to time when rough seas crash over the decks and find their way doen through the boat fsster than the pumps can expell the water, but for the most part, she has a nice loft off of the keel.
Good morning from southwest Florida
18:05 The water will get that high. Stuff happens. But not often.
Lovely work
Live oak, ain’t no joke! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
25:32 Great camera angle. Made me laugh.
As a Californian, I find myself wishing I lived in your future home. No earthquake on Earth is powerful enough to damage what you are building.
I live in Texas to not have seasons, and not have to deal with snow! Well... Usually... Last week was awful...
Texas does have seasons. Mud, dust, and construction!
@@ScottKenny1978 I signed up for heat, humidity, and dust... Their weather would kill me, that or I would hibernate for 8 or 9 months out of the year.
@@memeier9894 I'm the opposite. Anything over about 60degF and I'm in shorts. Anything over 80 and I'm sweating. Oh, and that's at 20% humidity, not 90%>
Here in north central Kentucky we see anywhere from negative teens (rare) to hundred+teens also rare. Our typical yearly lows are single digits and highs into the low 100s (with high 90s% to single digit humidity). So, we have seasons, historically. Here in the last few years, it seems like we mostly skip the biggest parts of spring and autumn temps and go mostly from 30s to 80s. Our 50s to 70s time frames have gotten really short and typically hide within the ends of the summer and wimyer seasons instead of actually having much of a spring or fall spread.
Steve Just a Thought to Save a little Weight and Down Pressure Use a Wood Finish CarbonFiber Mast and then you can have More Supplies aboard Ship!
Mast weight doesn't come out of the same bin as cargo weight. "Weight aloft" adds to the heeling moment (the forces trying to tip the boat over in a strong wind), and the lead keel is the other force on that arm, now is not the time to be changing the weight of the mast.
thats a sturdy chunk of lumber
Any thoughts about a modern day fire suppression system? Like maybe a foam generator? If it's practical.
I have the same conversations with my dog in the winter time...
3:10 I wonder how many big beautiful heavy anvils are sitting at the bottom of Harbors from busting through the bottom of wooden boats🤦🏻♂️
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Bravo les gars super travail👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
at 1:47 it looks as if the steam bent frame is split at the bottom. the bottom ends look a little shrunk and loose, too.. but that might end when the boat is put in water and the resulting swelling is done.
The frames are cut for most of their length, only solid for the bottom few inches.
Yeah, I don't see any splits other than the cuts purposefuly made when the frames were bent. If you go back and watch the first frame videos you will see why they split most of the length of the frames.
I as well as you watched all the videos of Acorn to Arabella, so i know how these frames were made. But if you do actually skip to 1:47 and watch closely, the left frame shown has a check or a crack or a little score coming from the edge of the bottomcut to fit the keel timber going on for maybe half of what you see from the garbord plank. this whatever it is is off center, so it definately is not the sawn in split to support the bending. if its just some imperfection, i guess its all alright, but it would be a shame to have an already broken frame in the boat before launching it. if it needs to be replaced, bette rnow than later i suppose
@@philippsiegfried4760 I think I see what you are talking about. It may be a score mark from the hand or power plane. Looks like a line in the wood that caught some saw dust. What I am seeing has a line the continues up to a line differential in the red paint as well. From my screen it is hard to tell if it is a plane score, a check, or a crack, but the line is pretty straight, leading me to believe it is a plane score, especially since it appears to be holding some saw dust. (But that could be exposed wood from a displaced crack, too, I suppose.)
Hopefully they see your comment and check it out to be sure.
We can see a beautiful even keel wood sailboat. Will they take into account the keeling of the sails and the turning point of the rudder? Have they considered the importance of the stem in the design?
I am guessing this was from 2 weeks ago for the snow. Where this last week we have had a good early thaw.
Interesting new opening. Tho I miss the signature music that went with the opening.. Oh well we cant have what we love all the time
I liked the old intro better too but I'm getting old and resistant to un-necessary change, but who am I to question the youngsters need to change things up just to keep it fresh! lol
Here 10 min ago!
Fellars! People wait on your video! Testimony of your influence and content!