The joy of a cutter-headed ketch rig is the ability to set different combinations of sail to fit the requirements of wind and wave. Nice sailing shots!
I love your content, you did an amazing job building your ship. I hate to say so your an appaling sailor. May I teach you how to sail? Best regards, Joris Driest. (The best sailor you will ever meet) I will be willing to spend some time with you and properly teach you how to sail at my expense!)
I love your content, you did an amazing job building your ship. I hate to say so your an appaling sailor. May I teach you how to sail? Best regards, Joris Driest. (The best sailor you will ever meet) I will be willing to spend some time with you and properly teach you how to sail at my expense!) P.s i also have a husky. In Ho
Its amazing to think back isn't it? You two guys out cutting trees, milling, pouring a keep and all that it took to build the boat. Dealing with life, family and all the blessings and challenges that entails. Then getting out on the water, continuing to learn about the boat, navigation, reading the weather and sailing. Each day the sun comes up and you get to do it all again. You have all come so far and grown so much through your adventure. I can only wonder and imagine what the next year will hold for you all. Take care of yourself and each other!
I'd still take a half dozen of each fastener and throw them all in a fastener bin for emergencies. You never know when one might go for a swim, work loose or break from an internal factory defect. There's no guarantee that you'll be in port when it happens or that you can find one in whatever port you happen to be in. Just knowing you have them offers a great deal of comfort.
Love the “Morning Dew” intro music….Oh yes, the video is awesome and so happy to get my weekly friday fix…..My boat is stored for winter, so getting out on the water with all of you makes my day….MC from Orleans MA
When your fasteners get to lower levers in their plastic boxes, move them to freezer ziplock bags. Those have a much thinker plastic, they lay flat saving lots of space. You can organize them into a small box or an envelope with a list of group type written on it. Much better than a big mixed jar of loose screws!
I am always mentally full of good advice for people who get sea sick, because 99% of the time I don't. But then sometimes I do, and it can happen in a moment. It's a great time of year to be heading south. First snow is forecast for the night before Thanksgiving, in coastal NH at any rate.
I remember crossing from Shetland to Orkney, 5 hours of constant massive swells , the whole ferry was sea sick , 100s of people either throwing up or zombied out wishing death to take away the sickness.
I have evangelize a tiller.pilot on ever video I have watched. I try to emphasize that it will teach you how to get the boat in a solid 'sailing herself', 'groove' and more so that the white buckled tiller wiggling is an needed use of calories. Relax and let her dance ! You have to be a gentle lead in the partnership but it takes two to tango :)
So glad to see you making way again. Lights on the dodger will be great for night sailing and just sitting at mooring with a glass of wine. Take care and give Akiva scricthes from us all.
“Whenever o’er the waves I sail, “Going down and going up, “You’ll always find me at the rail, “Getting sick and throwing-aughhh!” -Mad Magazine, sometime in the ’70s
Steve, your dialect has become that of a sailor, and Akiva's now talking to the dolphins. I liked the immediate response whenever you crossed the wind; it seemed like for a moment the fellow crew mates were startled.
It's easy for a driver to lose the plot downwind. You boat speed subtracts from the true windspeed and many a new sailor has learned about apparent wind like that.
wishing you a happy thanksgiving, among what i am thankful for, i'm thankful for acorn to arabella, the videos and the people who make them... thank you.
It's quite a contrast, one sailing couple I follow trying to find their way south for the winter - and the other trying to find a bay in Greenland with reliable ice so they can stay put in the ice for the winter :D
Used to spend summers (late 70's- early 80's) camping along the canal at the campground between the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. In the summer time, the fog rolls down the canal channel filling it up to the edge for a little while, making a flat river of fog before taking over. When a large ship would come down the fog bound canal, you could hear (but not see!) it. If large enough, you could hear the antennae hitting the bridge as the ship passed under. we would ride our bikes along the canal trail from the railroad bridge to the Sagamore bridge.
I love watching these videos. Thanks. With such a long tiller, you might think about a tiller extension, or, especially an autopilot for when you are sailing short handed. There is a very short opening between the end of hurricane season and winter storms; about 5 minutes. Best cure for sea-sickness, I found, is to sit under a palm tree with a stack of toons and a bottle of monkey rum.
"...where Arabella was launched a year and a half ago." I remember watching all those construction videos, and seeing as the hull planking was fixed, a project turn into a boat; imagining that Steve's craftsmanship with the wood really might become a thing afloat... WHERE DOES ALL THIS TIME GO?
I watched a video on that sand reclamation project at Cape Cod earlier today.16:27 I have never seen the word 'fandangos' in print before and only heard it in Procol Harem's 'Whiter Shade of Pale', "skip the light fandangos, turn cartwheels ion the floor". Now I have to go and look it up. Great video, head for the warm weather.
We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick But the crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray Fandango is a lively partner dance originating in Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets.
I was going to say that you guys should always have Bonine on board. If you take it an hour before the motion starts then you won’t get seasick for 24 hours. And unlike Dramamine, it doesn’t make you drowsy.
Ooohh the coffee is hot and sweet and my favorite Friday crew is on! I'm kind of liking the net strung around the deck. It must help keeping you and your possessions on board. Especially Akiva! No! Don't break the boom! The panic is real! The expressions on all of your faces made me laugh so many times. I have missed you all. Praying for safe sailing.
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Hi Arabella's team 👫🐕and new crew. ¡¡¡ Me alegro MUCHO que retomeis la actividad !!! Bonita navegada con compañía 🐳🐬. Saludos desde Sevilla (Sur de España)🥂🇪🇸💃
@hansvenhoeven935 Agree. I do know Steven is still learning. And he wanted to do it by himself and not take any lessons. But I think it would do him good to get some basics in order to improve sail settings (and avoid e.g. material damage)
It’s funny to see, when I was sailing small cats < 20 ft as captain/owner I was pretty conservative apprehensive when the wind picked up, while the crew was relaxed and ready to rock and roll without any worries! ⛵️
I have some stupid questions, What does "reefing" mean? and how does your dog go about doing his business on the boat? The whales and dolphins were awesome!
reefing is making the sail shorter for heavier winds, akiva is gonna have to learn how for sure. arabella hasn’t spent a significant amount of time off shore yet.
You might try a kind of reverse paper training. Get a section of outdoor carpeting and use that for awhile on land and train him to go on it. Then given the scent and such it might be easier to transition to him using it on the boat. Plus you could put some grommets on it so you could just dip it overboard to clean it off.
Maybe this has already been covered, but where is Akiva's personal head? And how do you deal with the results? Water hose? Disposable news paper? What strategy are you guys employing?
*- I had to explain to my lady friend that the woofing @ **15:03** was Akevia barking at something he was chasing in this dreams.* *- Post this hear just in case someone is concerned for Akeva and not familiar with dogs and their dreaming of fun chases or something to bark at as a warning to their pack mates, Steve and Robin, et. al.*
Nice to see the Arabella story picking up again. It would be really nice to see some shots of her sails up, either from the dinghy or a drone.
it was a lot of motoring from Boothbay. sails are up next week!
Congrats!. This is the video I have been waiting for since the "two crazy guys pour a lead keel in the backyard" days.
It was a long ride and still kind of unreal that Arabella is now sailing the seas.
i was just thinking the same thing, realy amazing to see that if you are hell bent on something, you can do incredeble things
The joy of a cutter-headed ketch rig is the ability to set different combinations of sail to fit the requirements of wind and wave. Nice sailing shots!
it is very true. much more about the rig to be learned yet, but it’s so versatile!
Good morning to A2A crew and fellow viewers! A great way to start our Friday, eh? Thank you for this episode.
I love your content, you did an amazing job building your ship. I hate to say so your an appaling sailor. May I teach you how to sail? Best regards, Joris Driest. (The best sailor you will ever meet)
I will be willing to spend some time with you and properly teach you how to sail at my expense!)
I love your content, you did an amazing job building your ship. I hate to say so your an appaling sailor. May I teach you how to sail? Best regards, Joris Driest. (The best sailor you will ever meet)
I will be willing to spend some time with you and properly teach you how to sail at my expense!)
P.s i also have a husky. In Ho
Excellent. Looking forward to see Arabella and crew in warmer climate. And Akiva 🩶
So glad to have my Friday meditative viewing experience back!
Absolutely thrilled to come home from teaching on a Friday, to a new Acorn video! Thank you Steve and gang, safe travels.
Thanks Ben. Looking forward to seeing you sailing next Friday. Be safe
Akiva just looks so settled in. It's amazing how adaptable dogs are. As long as they have some food and their humans, they are happy.
Its amazing to think back isn't it? You two guys out cutting trees, milling, pouring a keep and all that it took to build the boat. Dealing with life, family and all the blessings and challenges that entails. Then getting out on the water, continuing to learn about the boat, navigation, reading the weather and sailing. Each day the sun comes up and you get to do it all again. You have all come so far and grown so much through your adventure. I can only wonder and imagine what the next year will hold for you all. Take care of yourself and each other!
I'd still take a half dozen of each fastener and throw them all in a fastener bin for emergencies.
You never know when one might go for a swim, work loose or break from an internal factory defect. There's no guarantee that you'll be in port when it happens or that you can find one in whatever port you happen to be in. Just knowing you have them offers a great deal of comfort.
So true Robin, it never gets old and each meeting is as special as the first.
Livin' the life. Arabella seems to be running real well. Blue skys to Capt. & crew.
It is fun seeing all the cool marine life these past couple of episodes. Arthropods a while ago, and now sea mammals! Whales and dolphins, oh my!
we are also here for it!
To simply touch your boat is on my bucket list.
I don't care if it's painful, but I would do just about anything to sail with you...
Love the “Morning Dew” intro music….Oh yes, the video is awesome and so happy to get my weekly friday fix…..My boat is stored for winter, so getting out on the water with all of you makes my day….MC from Orleans MA
Good to see the start of the adventure to warmer weather.
Arabella is back on Fridays! Thank you. May fair winds and following seas attend your travels.
When your fasteners get to lower levers in their plastic boxes, move them to freezer ziplock bags. Those have a much thinker plastic, they lay flat saving lots of space. You can organize them into a small box or an envelope with a list of group type written on it. Much better than a big mixed jar of loose screws!
Akira has a lovely singing voice! Enjoy your trip South.
Fair winds and following seas. Hope you enjoy a warm and relaxing winter.
love seeing the dophins escort you through the waters safely, such a privilege
it was quite the escort!
Can't wait to see you guys in the tropics.
Happy Friday and A2A day everybody from Plymouth UK
Nice additions to the video, Ben. Wishing you well.
I am always mentally full of good advice for people who get sea sick, because 99% of the time I don't. But then sometimes I do, and it can happen in a moment. It's a great time of year to be heading south. First snow is forecast for the night before Thanksgiving, in coastal NH at any rate.
I remember crossing from Shetland to Orkney, 5 hours of constant massive swells , the whole ferry was sea sick , 100s of people either throwing up or zombied out wishing death to take away the sickness.
Tiller pilot is a game changer.
I have evangelize a tiller.pilot on ever video I have watched.
I try to emphasize that it will teach you how to get the boat in a solid 'sailing herself', 'groove' and more so that the white buckled tiller wiggling is an needed use of calories.
Relax and let her dance !
You have to be a gentle lead in the partnership but it takes two to tango :)
Second time missing you guys coming through the canal!
So glad to see you making way again. Lights on the dodger will be great for night sailing and just sitting at mooring with a glass of wine. Take care and give Akiva scricthes from us all.
She is looking great!!
Akiva looks so at home. The shirt I bought so long ago with her living large on the boat was like a prediction.
“Whenever o’er the waves I sail,
“Going down and going up,
“You’ll always find me at the rail,
“Getting sick and throwing-aughhh!”
-Mad Magazine, sometime in the ’70s
Steve, your dialect has become that of a sailor, and Akiva's now talking to the dolphins.
I liked the immediate response whenever you crossed the wind; it seemed like for a moment the fellow crew mates were startled.
It's easy for a driver to lose the plot downwind. You boat speed subtracts from the true windspeed and many a new sailor has learned about apparent wind like that.
wishing you a happy thanksgiving, among what i am thankful for, i'm thankful for acorn to arabella, the videos and the people who make them... thank you.
And we’re thankful for messages and viewers like you. have a great thanksgiving!
You guys are SO ready to get out of New England winter sailing.
It's quite a contrast, one sailing couple I follow trying to find their way south for the winter - and the other trying to find a bay in Greenland with reliable ice so they can stay put in the ice for the winter :D
when steering: do not sit in the way of the helm.. Your boat should be able to steer herself, so sit somewhere else.
Succes.
Sailing master Jaap
Used to spend summers (late 70's- early 80's) camping along the canal at the campground between the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. In the summer time, the fog rolls down the canal channel filling it up to the edge for a little while, making a flat river of fog before taking over. When a large ship would come down the fog bound canal, you could hear (but not see!) it. If large enough, you could hear the antennae hitting the bridge as the ship passed under. we would ride our bikes along the canal trail from the railroad bridge to the Sagamore bridge.
Good Morning from Sandwich, MA
Wow, this one was a bit of a wildlife safari.
Thanks for adding the marine life images.
thanks to NOAA for making them copyright free!
Love u all. And may you have a happy holidays
Nothing like the first real voyage!
I love watching these videos. Thanks.
With such a long tiller, you might think about a tiller extension, or, especially an autopilot for when you are sailing short handed.
There is a very short opening between the end of hurricane season and winter storms; about 5 minutes.
Best cure for sea-sickness, I found, is to sit under a palm tree with a stack of toons and a bottle of monkey rum.
"...where Arabella was launched a year and a half ago." I remember watching all those construction videos, and seeing as the hull planking was fixed, a project turn into a boat; imagining that Steve's craftsmanship with the wood really might become a thing afloat... WHERE DOES ALL THIS TIME GO?
Arabella under sail, whales, dolphins, and Akiva! What else do you need on Friday? Thanks for another great video! ❤
Good Morning y'all from South Texas
I watched a video on that sand reclamation project at Cape Cod earlier today.16:27 I have never seen the word 'fandangos' in print before and only heard it in Procol Harem's 'Whiter Shade of Pale', "skip the light fandangos, turn cartwheels ion the floor". Now I have to go and look it up. Great video, head for the warm weather.
We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
Fandango is a lively partner dance originating in Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets.
I was going to say that you guys should always have Bonine on board. If you take it an hour before the motion starts then you won’t get seasick for 24 hours. And unlike Dramamine, it doesn’t make you drowsy.
Same with th patch !
It's been a flipping year and a half already?? Holy cow time flies.
it sure does
Good morning to Akiva , and Crew 😻😸😺
Ooohh the coffee is hot and sweet and my favorite Friday crew is on! I'm kind of liking the net strung around the deck. It must help keeping you and your possessions on board. Especially Akiva! No! Don't break the boom! The panic is real! The expressions on all of your faces made me laugh so many times. I have missed you all. Praying for safe sailing.
it’s definitely some added insurance
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Akiva is such a handsome good boy 💕
Happy Thanksgiving to all your making good progress toward the southern points.
A seasoned sailor told me that sailing is the slowest way to go from one place to another where you don’t really wish to be.
Hi Arabella's team 👫🐕and new crew. ¡¡¡ Me alegro MUCHO que retomeis la actividad !!! Bonita navegada con compañía 🐳🐬. Saludos desde Sevilla (Sur de España)🥂🇪🇸💃
You guys deserve some palm trees
You look great from snowy Holland!
Akiva is being stoic, but he really would like to be ashore full time.
i think he’s mentioned that a few times.
Tell your crew to put the patch onthe night before heading off shore. Sure helps with the chumming overboard.
Okay okay NOW it finally looks like a real boat 😂
Love it so much keep it up as always 💘
Everybody IS SMILING!
Weve all done it Ross soo don't fret over a crash jibe 😅😅😅.
Ok that was Sandwich too many times now I am hungry !!
Sometimes Akiva says something that is really deep. And that was really deep.
Amazing
Weren't you too close hauled for broad reach/running?
And Akiva was dreaming of the dolphins 😊
given the effort made to keep course, the sails are not set properly. A sailing ship should keep its own course with only minor rudder correction
@hansvenhoeven935 Agree. I do know Steven is still learning. And he wanted to do it by himself and not take any lessons. But I think it would do him good to get some basics in order to improve sail settings (and avoid e.g. material damage)
To sail on with a sea sick crew aboard is absolutely punishment. I hope that I missed something. Sea sickness is devastating. I'm so sorry for them.
It’s funny to see, when I was sailing small cats < 20 ft as captain/owner I was pretty conservative apprehensive when the wind picked up, while the crew was relaxed and ready to rock and roll without any worries! ⛵️
Hey it my donated mushroom vent :-)
I have some stupid questions, What does "reefing" mean? and how does your dog go about doing his business on the boat? The whales and dolphins were awesome!
reefing is making the sail shorter for heavier winds, akiva is gonna have to learn how for sure. arabella hasn’t spent a significant amount of time off shore yet.
@@AcornToArabella Thanks!
I really dislike winter sailing. No, I just dislike winter.🙂🙂
Has Akiva come around to potty time on deck? That’s probably a hard one for a dog to understand.
teaching new tricks to old dogs is as difficult as they say.
You might try a kind of reverse paper training. Get a section of outdoor carpeting and use that for awhile on land and train him to go on it. Then given the scent and such it might be easier to transition to him using it on the boat. Plus you could put some grommets on it so you could just dip it overboard to clean it off.
@@AcornToArabella He must be figuring something out if you were out 11 hours at a time overnight. What a great dog!
WOOOOOO!
Akiva sleeps through the crash jibe!
Your going to get to the warmer weather and think about adding that air conditioning that you thought you would never need. 😉
It’s obviously time to get someone on board that knows something about sailing. Interesting that a “crash jibe” occurred while on a beam reach.
I am not a fan of the new solar panel location on the shrouds. This will increase the windage and leeway.
Maybe this has already been covered, but where is Akiva's personal head? And how do you deal with the results? Water hose? Disposable news paper? What strategy are you guys employing?
Have you considered wintering in the Abacos?
I think those were more likely finback whales
Does Akiva ever show signs of seasickness, I wonder? Do dogs not get that motion-sickness disturbance to their senses?
Do you guys have a small block and tackle provision for the off chance the tiller handle snaps off?
yes we do! and a blank to carve out a new one from locust if it’s ever needed. 🤞
May the seas lay smooth ahead.May sun always shine upon your face.May your soul be kind to others.May God keep those aboard safe.😊
You guys don't have an autopilot?
Akiva❤
Missed getting caught in irons!
How do you get caught in irons going down wind ??
*- I had to explain to my lady friend that the woofing @ **15:03** was Akevia barking at something he was chasing in this dreams.*
*- Post this hear just in case someone is concerned for Akeva and not familiar with dogs and their dreaming of fun chases or something to bark at as a warning to their pack mates, Steve and Robin, et. al.*
My 1st time being seasick was on a sailboat in San Francisco Bay,...
sounds like a vivid memory
Notice Akiva is fine, do dogs get seasick?
To be fair, I felt a bit seasick watching the video so I can imagine how rough it was for the passengers.
What were those bouys near the humpback whales?
lobster traps
I see a pink flamingo in your future 🦩
can you tell if it’s plastic or not?
@ lol. Initially saw plastic but could turn out to be real🦩🌹
Get those vests on well before you have to reef! "We'll be fine", was not the proper response. Been there regreted that... shit happens.
🇺🇸💪
Like l always say adream that should not be realised
I wonder how many dog poop stops they have to make each day? I guess this limits them to near shore travel?
it is a skill that Akiva really needs to get down.