Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 27: Flattening the Keels
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- After the arduous task of dragging our lead keel out of the ground and onto the cribbing in the boathouse, it was time to start working on flattening both keels in preparation for them to be mated together.
See how we set things up in order to do that.
Also, we will be at the Maine Boatbuilder's show in Portland ME from March 23rd to 25th and are scheduled to do a talk. If you are in the area please come and check out this great event and meet us in person!
Last but definitely not least.... One of our subscriber's girlfriend contacted us and about a special birthday gift for her boyfriend. She got him a Patreon to our channel asked us to wish him a happy birthday in the video. So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Blair Nichols!!
But let's see if we can top that and get as many Happy birthday wishes we can pile up for Blair in the comments below! GO!
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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38' wooden boat in their backyard: designer William Atkin's Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel's gaff rig. These videos follow the journey from tree felling, to lumber milling, to lofting, to the lead keel pour and beyond-sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when they will travel and learn to cruise aboard the boat that they've built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR!
Acorn To Arabella OMG! What a surprise that was. Thank you so much, and thanks to all the other subscribers who have taken the time to wish me a happy birthday.
Happy Birthday Blair!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR!
Blair Nichols happy birthday hope it's a blessed day. God bless
Happy birthday!
It always amazes me how many historic lead keel experts exist in the comment section of youtube.
You can scroll dont 100 comments and not find something along those lines.
RUclips User go back to the keel casting video. He’s referencing that video!
wait im an exptert also ! first get it hot then pour it into something then wait ..drink some beer.... when its cold or when ur drunk enough try to move it .. make sure to wear your safety flip flopps and dark welding glasses so you dont hurt your eyes from the hang over or splash of lead ... but this all depends if u drink enough beer ... seriously ... drink beer ... trust me im an xpert
Because societies that sent their children down coal mines to get black lung by 23 are the people we should take our safety advice from.
NOT ME!..... Only thing I know about lead is from doing my own "LEAD SLED" (1950 Merc.)
My dad and his company of 4 brothers lofted and built a 5 3 ft 3 mast katch, in 1939-41 in mentor on the lake eire shore. It placed 2nd in class 1943. It later was dry docked, left to decay,until 1950 where it was rebuilt and shipped to san Francisco thru the 70s , it then ended up in the keys where is sank during hurricane Andrew. I have a couple black and whites of dad lofting and stem fitment a color of the launch. His favorite tool was his adz which was forged in Hawaii before wwII. He was a master ship wright in the merchant marines there. He had it in his Navy chest until he passed in 2006 , then it was given to an obscure family member who probably sold it at a flea market. I always say he forgot more about ship building than I ever learned, we worked together from 73-88 when he retited back to the lake erie area. Those were fine times ,what an education. Miss him.
For leveling the wooden keel. If you check out your area, you will find someone with an LT15 wood mizer bandsaw mill. Just rent a Hiab and take your keel there and they will cut it perfectly in a few minutes. Then flip it and make the last cut wherever you want. You guys are doing an incredible job! My Dad was a master shipwright and I was lucky enough to work with him for years building lapstrake/clinker hull, cedar boats. I'm really enjoying watching you guys work it all out!
Hard to fathom we’re this video is and we’re progress has advanced to. Rewatching these old videos is fun.
Nice 🙌
Going back to watch some of the old episodes. What a long way youy have come! 🙂
this is the kind of channel where I like new videos before even watching them
Juan Carlos Senor-Clinton I
My father would be amazed by and addicted to RUclips if he were alive today. He loved TV documentaries on all types of traditional skills. It's truly surreal where RUclips can lead you. It's like a Russian Doll; I came by you great people looking for videos about plumbing. Thanks guys, you are my new addiction! Love from Éire.
Retired Boat builder living in Lubec watching your Videos. Great work you all are doing. A True Art.
A very wise man told me once, "when the sun goes down, farming is done" good call on not trying to push through and messing something up. HBD Blair!
Happy birthday Blair. Better late than never.
What a project. I enjoy the creativity in the absence of sophisticated rigging and tools. Way to go guys.
Great to see Alix back on the project helping to pick up the pace again.
I like it alot HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR
Happy birthday Mr. Nichols, many happy returns of the day.
God Bless
Happy Birthday Blair!
Much respect on your attention to detail on this EPIC amount of backbreaking manual labor. Great job guys!!
Thanks! As the saying goes the devil is in the details! haha
happy happy birthday--belatedly--Blair.
Happy Birthday Blair!!!
Happy Birthday to Blair. I don't understand all the words you use (nomenclature) but having built motorcycles, lift cars and aircraft interiors all my life, I can relate and follow with much interest and recall about what is happening and the way you are doing it with jigs, templates, marking out techniques and other building reasonings. It gives me great pleasure to see how you are doing this and can relate a great deal to my last 45 years of construction. Happy days guys.
Awesome to hear! We can imagine that a lot of the tricks are the same, airplanes and boats both have lots of complex curves!
Happy birthday Blair.
Happy Birthday Blair! May God keep you and yours ever by His side.
You peeps are inspiration in a nutshell. Thankyou.
truly a labor of love
Happy Birthday Blair from 28memco Orange Park, FL
It's nice to re-visit this more than a year into the future and look back on the time when all you had was a lump of lead and a lump of wood for so long to re-assure people that a boat would eventually spring from it.
This is why you start building a boat as a young man
Indeed! It is a lot of work!
Ya you got enough years to complete it for your retirement
The lead is why you build a boat as an old man.
(less years to suffer from any accidental poisoning)
Happy birthday Blair. And congratulations Uncle Alix.
Happy Birthday Blair! Thank you for supporting this project!
belated happy birthday Blair.
Nothing better than seeing a new acorn vid! Happy birthday Blair!
awesome progress gentlemen.
As below, Restoring Susanna is worth a look see! Happy Birthday Blair!
AtoA-Another great video. Having the lead ballast keel and the timber keel side by side really brings the size of Arabella into scale. This is going to be a beautiful boat.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR!!
Just wait until they get bolted together and the stem/stern assemblies go up. She is not a small or lightly built vessel!
I had a custom furniture shop for quite some years, and like this project, there were very many jigs and templates on some of the cooler jobs. Watching this makes me anxious to get my shop up-and-running again! Can't wait to see this boat afloat!
Happy B-day Blair. Great work guys...
Mesmerizing... the skill level. Amazing, can't wait to see some more.
Happy birthday!
Cool. Ingenious use of a router. Haha Happy birthday Blair
I grew up in Portland Maine. Cheers and thanks a million for this great series of videos. People in the future are going to be in for a treat upon discovering them. Oh and Happy Birthday Blair.
Happy Birthday Blair! What a gift! An Acorn greeting!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR
HBD, Blair. Thanks, guys. I spent 15 years traveling the country turning 45 -pound rolls of construction drawings into million dollar Banana Republic stores and the like. Man, there were places I'd have KILLED to hire someone as thoughtful and skilled as you to lighten my load. That's perhaps a bigger compliment than you'll realize.
Thanks, we have worked with crews in the past that left a bit to be desired so we have some understanding =)
We heard from a gentleman who worked in/on UN buildings in far flung places and said they had limited tools, time and resources and he also would have killed to have guys like us on the crew. We never knew we could be in such high demand! It seems most employers want a specialist, not a jack of all trades I can figure something out folks like us, glad there are still niches out there for us!
I did a few big projects in areas outside my culture. A trusted associate was key. But, then, I'm so West Coast that I still find it odd to see someone use a folding ruler! A lot of what I see is your passion for the project. That was most often the attitude I took into an assignment, but I couldn't pay people to feel the same way. All my best.
Happy Birthday and many Blessings Blair
Happy Birthday Blair! Hope you have a great day!
Happy Birthday.
My father was a boatbuilder, he had 2 workshops on Canvey Island in Essex, England, He used to hand build hard chine and round bilge boats, making his own cold moulded plywood, when it wasn't carvel or clinker built. He used to build masts and spars for G Prout and Sons the catamaran builders on Canvey, he also built the 80 ft wishbone mast for the 'rehu Moana' the catamaran that went to the arctic.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Oh, I used to own a 1931 TSDY the 'Kathleen Mary built by Thorneycroft for Pride of the 1931 Southampton Boat show for Lord Harmsworth Barthomlew and named after his wife Kathleen Mary. The Royal Navy took it during WW II as Churchills VIP Cutter in The Solent, it left no bow or stern wash (so could not be seen by it's fluorescence at night.) It had it's original Baby Blake heads and Throneycroft RH1 engines in it when I bought it.
happy birthday blair!
Happy birthday Blair...fair winds and following seas.
Thanks once again everyone for the happy birthdays and best wishes. I spent the weekend drinking rum, riding my motorbike (before drinking) and building my daughter a boat! (bed).
You make your own luck 👍. Love your thought processes and ingenuity .
Happy Birthday Blair...she's a keeper
Happy Birthday Blair.
Have a great day.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday Blair, your girlfriend had a great idea, hope you enjoyed it
Happy Birthday Blair Nichols from Melbourne Australia🇦🇺🙋🏼♂️
Happy birthday Blair
Happy birthday Blaire. Be blessed and prospered.
Sorry typo Blair happy birthday
Happy Birthday Blair! Another great video fellas, thanks!
Happy Birthday ... cant wait to see the finished keel.. this boat is going to be awesome..
Happy happy birthday from Ceres South Africa
Fitting wood to previous wood; welcome to carpentry in the field as engineers designed it for you. No pun intended, it's hard at times but shows you're a carpenter/shipwright of the extreme when it comes out right! Good going guys!
Happy Birthday Blair, have a great day
Looking Good chaps
Happy birthday Blair. Fair winds and calm seas!!⛵️
simply awesome
Alright first and foremost happy birthday Blair. Alix congratulations on becoming an uncle and tell your sister I said congratulations. Now all that being said. I've never even been in the ocean I've never even been on a sailboat but I come across two guys pouring your lead Kiel and I've been hooked on your videos about this boat ever since I went and watched all your back videos and I always look forward to your new releases. I admire the hard work and the dedication you guys are putting into this project keep up the great work and I definitely will look forward to your next video and thank you for the previous videos
Thank you very much for the kind words! We are thrilled you are enjoying following our journey!
I love to watch a master at work ,, i thank you for the show , it gives hope to see the old skills are alive and still at work. thanks for sharing.
Master is stretching it a bit! ha!
But thanks anyways! =)
i have worked with wood all my life , when i see some one with skill like yours. you are as good as they come ..
Happy birthday Blair hope you have a great birthday
Happy Happy Happy Birthday Mr Blair!! (from Canada)
Have a fantastic birthday Blair!
Happy Birthday @Blair
Thanks for documenting your journey! This process is greatly entertaining to watch.
Happy birthday Blair. May your winds always be fair.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR!!! CHEERS!!
Another outstanding documentation of the process! Learning a great amount.
Happy Birthday Blair. Great work guys
Happy birthday Blair!!!🦄🎈🌹🌼🦄
!Feliz cumpleaños¡ Blair
I follow this channel from day #1 and this is my revisit from the future ( July 2019 ), just to get the idea again of how it was and i love it, you guys deserve good fortune and prevailing winds.
Happy Birthday Blair Nichols, and may you have many many more.
That’s a lot of work guys. Hats off to y’all. Nice job on your project and thanks for filming.
Happy Birthday Blair! (snuck it in just in time). Great episode too :-)
Happy Birthday Blair from the beautiful Pacific Northwest!
Happy birthday Blair from the New Forest, Hampshire, UK.
Happy Birthday Blair ! Hope its a great year for you.
Another great episode guys, the keels are looking mighty fine, good job. Happy birthday Blair... Andy UK
Thanks!
My new favorite channel. The amount of patience and ingenuity you employ is impressive to say the least. You guys are awesome, thanks for the quality videos.
Thanks!
Glad you are enjoying them!
Great job guys 😋 HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR! MANY MANY MORE!🎂
Compulsive viewing love the show, Oldham UK
Happy Birthday Blair! Hope you have a great day! Tip one back for me!
Joyeux anniversaire Blair! Happy B-day Blair!
happy birthday Blair, best wishes
happy birthday blair
Thanks for posting. Hope warmer weather comes soon.
Happy Birthday Blair. Hoist a pint or two.
Great work guys. Very interesting
Happy B-Day to Blair! Happy Keel days to the team!
Happy birthday Blair. These A2A vids are quite intriguing.
BIG UPS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAIR!
Happy belated birthday Blair.