The Aft Hatch - Episode 146 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2021
- The deck framing is almost complete on Arabella. In this episode, Steve wraps up all the framing in the aft section by making a couple more deck beams and then framing in the hatch. This hatch will provide some storage but also some ventilation to the engine compartment.
Meanwhile, Alix diligently works on the sill plate for the house top. The sill plate needs to fit snugly to the carlins and deck beams which frame the house top opening. They will then be joined at the corners via half lap joints and screwed down to provide a base for the house to built up off of but also for the decking to butt up against. Where the decking abuts the sill plate will then provide an ample surface for caulking around the house.
Soon the work is going to shift to mocking up the house and the cockpit so that we start to figure out what we want the interior to look like!
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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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My only regret about watching this wonderful project is not being able to smell the wood workings!
When is technology going to catch up with the needs of woodworking channels?!
@@AcornToArabella I've been watching for about 2 years and I am utterly hooked, the video I was riveted by was the pouring of the keel, very exciting.
I don't sail, I don't do carpentry but love the project.
The day she sails will be quite sad as this journey will be over.
Stay safe and thanks a lot from Leeds in the UK 🇬🇧
Thank you all for a wonderful Friday video. Arabella is looking better everyday. Take care, stay well.
Best part: Seeing you two working at the same task (rivets), together. Somehow, all is right in the Arabella world! Your interactions are the principal interest from the very beginning. Thanks so much for everything!
Thanks for saying so, David!
very nice work! I now understand why some of the finest furniture makers are from areas that boat builders live.
thanks Rich
I am (like many of the guys I see helping you out) over 60 years old and wishing I had the balls 30 years ago to do what you are doing now. Great work.
If it's any consolation, Steve has said he'd never do it again. ;) Though he's enjoying this go-around, it's the travel that's the real prize.
I love waking up Friday morning getting my coffee and sitting and watching some real craftsmen at work.
Me too!
Shucks, thanks Benjamin.
Lucky you. We in the old world have to wait until afternoon or even evening.
Saturday Morning for me. And yeah, this always makes a great start to the weekend.
@@petert3355 I love Fridays, Acorn to Arabella and then New Scientist.
Every week I tell myself the same thing: "Dang, that went by quickly!" She's really shaping up nicely.
I just love the look of the wood with the rivets. The lines are beautiful. This project is as much a work of art as it is a boat.
Thanks Guys, Not only are you doing a great job on Arabella but also these calm videos full of peace and perfect joints are helping more people in more ways than you can imagine, thank you again!
HAHAHA that one part, right at the end where he says "hope to have you here again next week" That is pure comedy writing. We will be here next week and the next etc. We wait with baited breath for the friday video to drop from Acorn to Arabella. As a matter of fact Thursday nights are the only night I can sleep fast enough. The rest are days I sleep too slow......
love seeing the patience and attention to detail... chuckle over the fact that all the trail and test fit pieces probably amount to a second boat!! keep up the great work fellas, thanks.
Seriously-the wood used to make a wooden boat (not its parts) could probably build a second boat. Molds, staging, jigs, offcuts...
Despite all of the external goings on in the world outside of the boatshed, the progress on Arabella is coming along really well. She'll be afloat before we know it. Keep up the great work guys, and thanks for bringing us along for the journey, and adventure. Stay safe and keep well.
Just curious... Does anyone know their estimated time of completion? It'll be an exciting day for sure.
Really, my guess would be three years before they sail her. They need more help. Seems like they are overwhelmed with this project at times.
This is one vid I hang out for each week. I can almost smell the timber from Australia. In a world of chaos you two are a sea of calm determination. My wife keeps asking, 'How are they going to get it to the water?'.
@@paulwier7005 it does not seem like they are overwhelmed at all. In fact, they had help, and Steve put an end to it because too much was being accomplished. Steve WANTS to do this build with as little help as possible.
@@paulwier7005 It'll happen when it happens. Doubt if they are overwhelmed, just focused on the task at hand, and are being careful and diligent in everything they do now to ensure the boat will last a long time.
watching Steve drill holes is something he always keeps them straight that's not easy
He has had loads of practice on this project alone.
Steve and Alix have become true woodwork artisans. Everywhere you look at this project you see works of art combining to form a functional machine that will traverse the world. Every time an A2A video posts I'm eager to see what they create next.
What a difference a hemisphere makes :-) Mid-afternoon here in South Africa, I'm sitting in my study wearing just shorts, no short, no socks no shoes, watching two boat builders in jackets, gloves and beanies build a boat!
Sounds devine. But auto correct changed your "shirt" to short.
I much prefer warmer weather, not hot per-se, but up to around 85°F is perfectly fine with me, depending on the humidity.
I subbed when they poured the lead keel section. This channel has been a light in the dark of a very bad year for me. I probably owe these guys thousands in therapy
Copy that.
Well, it's comments like these that serve as therapy for us, too, when the work gets hard or overwhelming or when documenting it makes us feel exposed or judged. Thanks Stephen and Damian. We appreciate you.
If you feel strongly about that, take a 50% discount and send them what you feel you owe them. They have a long way to go yet, and the systems and rigging aren't going to be cheap.
Or, you could take an even deeper discount and join the Patreon crew and pay a quite small, by comparison to psychological therapy, monthy/per video fee for this therapy, and support them throughout the build as part of a group of people who feel much the same way as you do.
Of course, that is if you can fit it into your budget without hurting your financial well-being. Many of us out here are stretched so thin right now, and temperarily unemployed, that we can't spare a dime. Getting by, in America, on less than $900/month (household incom) is a tough thing to do. There are several channels I would like to support, but I am struggling just to keep a roof and food for the family.
But if you can support, and feel as though you owe them for therapy, you most sertainly can if it is within you budget to do so.
Bless you.
Once again Ben has killed it with the music!
Really see her taking on some strength now guy's, she is a beauty.
Nice to see the deck framing progressing. It looks really capable of withstanding the biggest waves that might slam against it.
Watching you all work is awesome thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I know it's takes a lot of time to video the work, moving cameras around and all. It's easier to just set up a camera or GoPro and let it run. But the close up work of chiseling out the pocket for a carling was really good. I hope you can find the time to do more of the detailed close ups. It really shows off your skills and brings another dimension to the video.
Thank you for noticing and commenting on this. We really appreciate the feedback.
Believe me we all notice all those beautiful closeups and have done for a long time.
Agreed. Love the close detail parts of the videos. Wide shots are great to show the scale of the project, but I prefer getting in there and seeing what they are doing more than seeing the guys and not the work. Not that the guys don't deserve the recognition, but the task at hand is more of why I am here. I can ride downbthe road and see guys working (well more guys standing around watching others work than actually working, but that seems to be the plot of utility company crews these days). I want to see the methods, so I can try to learn something. I hope when they get to the rigging they do a better job teaching us than Garret does over at Salt and Tar. I like the other channel, but I don't catch his style of explaining how to do the rope and/or cable work with his teaching style. Steve seems to explain things in a way that I understand it better.
Old Al Einstein sure got that relativity thing right. The clock says 22+ minutes went by, but the mind says, "nope, not even close."
Echoing others sentiment, thank you for the calm during the storm we've been living through these past few years. Politics, Covid, Economic disaster; it was always nice for the almost zen like manner you provided us.
Fastest (shortest) 22 minutes on RUclips. Thanks for letting me look over your shoulder while you create the largest piece of fine furniture. Looking forward to every Friday!
These guys impress me. Really taking on a challenge and educating us at the same time
Guys I hope this never becomes a chore and always remains a passion. Great work...
Amazing the sheer amount of very fine hand fitting that goes into this ship. Is there even one piece of wood that didn't need the artistic touch of a hand-made joint?
If so, very few. That's what makes it so awesome though. Absolutely top quality. Arabella is going to be sailing long, long after her makers have gone.
Some dream of building a home, this is the same, except for it's one that sails the seas. This message brought to you by the word: Legacy.
If you like hand made joinery that comes together smoothly, go check out the latest video from the channel "Mr. Chickadee".
He just assembled a Japanese style timber frame completely by himself from timbers he cut and did the joinery by hand all before fitting the pieces together. There were no adjustments to the joinery during assembly and it all went up by himself. (Turn on closed captioning for any commentary as he rarely speaks on videos, it is a very peaceful channel to watch as well).
To the video editor, ... I love the real time sounds of woodshop, instead of the freakish high speed common on sped up video. Thanks!
I've been watching since pouring the keel somehow crossed my feed such a long time ago. Honestly, I have no interest in sailing but love woodworking and fabrication. Watching you guys build Arabella is a favorite part of my Friday.
Shucks, Larry. Thanks!
Watching you work gives meaning to the expression that "everything is ship shape".
Ben, that keyboard interlude was awesome!
If anything, watching these videos has made me into a more of a "I can do this guys" type of guy. thanks A2a
That means a lot, Jacques, and it's why we do the videos. Sometimes it feels like a lot to be both building a boat and trying to tell everyone about it.
Definitely give me the confidence to try larger projects. As the old saying goes " How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time..... But the giant bandsaw helps"
With ya there, Jacques. Can't begin to count the many ways this project has motivated me.
Yup, I had to do some metal fabrication for a project the other day and I was reflecting that it was the inspiration of you guys that gave me the confidence to have a go. Thank you!
@@onnayoung7699 yup, when eating an elephant, you most certainly could cut each bite with a steak knife. But sectioning it up for the grill with a giant bandsaw would most definitely make it easier to grill. I can only imagine the rotisserie it would take and the tie to keep the trunk from flopping about to cook an elephant whole.
LOL
Excellent guys, thank you. My only gripe... I have to wait another 7 days til the next episode. A pleasure.
Greetings from the snowiest city in America (presently). We're closing in on 50"! Thanks for another great video.
WOO! And hello and thanks for watching!
The handheld close-up video shots with bokeh were MONEY!!! Of course the overall progress is amazing too. I screenshotted Steve at one point, standing over the cockpit, looking at the aft hatch framing because I could SEE a barefoot, shorts and future tropical background version of that moment. It will be a really cool comparison shot someday 😎🤙
5:30-8:20, the vibraphone interlude, very beautiful.
Slow but steady work all done as carefully as the first day!
Alix is really stepping up on his part of the construction.
He loves woodworking. Big time.
Great work.
Excellent jam man .
Beautiful ... Looking forward to seeing the mock-up!
Lovely job! Kudos to you both.
Looking good.
Magnificent! I can’t thank you enough for these videos.
Happy Arabella day everyone!
Yes. "Arabella Day" is my favorite day off the week.
Great work fellas!
One of the remarkable things about this project (aside from having, MY GOD, the TIMBERS you guys are using) is your dedication to it. You post updates, and post them often, that document a hell of a lot of work. You're treating this beautiful work of craftsmanship as a full-time job, not just something you work on when you feel like it. I respect the hell out of that.
Thanks for saying so. Comments like these really help us feel like sharing the progress with everyone is worth it. The videos are a labor of love.
Amazed by your skills!! I really like this project. Keep it up guys!
Amazing to see how much work and effort goes. Great job guys! Thanks for the video!
What a great video thanks guys for allowing us to watch over your shoulder , the woodworking is really top quality i wish i were in the boat house helping out .
Coming on nicely 👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧
Good to see you guys working in a bit of sunlight.
From the get go I've thoroughly enjoyed this your build adventure. See you next week.
More pieces added to the puzzle. Fitting looks great.
Really starting to look like a real fine fair lined ship. Cant wait to see it planked and decked. Keep up the great and interesting work. Really enjoying the videos.
👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always.
This will last 50 years before any serious considerations to build integrity, maybe longer. Unbelievable build quality, stronger than steel and it doesn't rust.
Wood's also what we had on hand, so... :) Steel boats do great when that's what you've got. Some of the most storied cruising boats were built of steel. Anyhow, we agree with you-this thing's a tank. Thanks so much for watching.
Can’t get over how beautiful the wood is. Nice job! 👍👍
digging the new beard look. awesome work fellas
Don't feel bad, I'm a slow sleeper too! Fridays are always the best day of the week! Payday and Acorn to Arabella and a hot cup of coffee. I babysit the Kracken ( my granddaughter) and the house could come down around me during your videos and I wouldn't notice! Keep them coming guys!
So glad you're following, Kathy. HA! THE KRACKEN! :)
Love this channel, best one on the net, you guys are amazing.
Wow, Dan. Thanks for saying so, we're glad you're watching.
Slow Sleep is a reasonable excuse to me.
Awesome music, and great work everyone. Every week I watch this and wish I was building a boat just like that. Arabella is going to be a beautiful boat.
Absolutely amazing work!! What a great project and so happy you share this with us. Love every second of the video. Cheers!
Very kind of you Joannes. Thanks for watching.
Amazing to see how the structure has become more ridged. From trampoline to tight drum. Great work guys.
Beautiful day here; waiting for a late lunch as always. Love this Friday(starving) tradition...cheers...rr Normandy, France
This is the only RUclips channel I've ever willingly turned on notifications for
Great job y'all from TEXAS
Like the new editing!
hi guys the boat is looking grate nice work guys
Ben, I really enjoyed your stereo effect on the bell of that crash cymbal. (at the 15 mark. ) slightly to the left, very nice.
Man. It’s getting exciting
Jim , in Arkansas. I’ve been hear from the beginning watching you guys work still amazes me every week with your patience and drive. Great Job !
We appreciate your support, Jim!
It's looking so beautiful! Great job guys!
Yup, and to think, it will all be covered up with planking soon. Never to be seen again unless you get the pleasure of gaining access to the inside of the boat and they don't put in a ceiling.
However, you can always go back to these videos if A2A doesn't take them down, or RUclips doesn't change and put a "timed out" age restriction on older videos and remove them automatically.
Would love to see a live webcam in the boat house. Love the videos guys.
Thanks ! Hurrah ! Hurrah !
I swear these keep going by faster with each episode.
I know you guys spend quite a bit of time, making sure your cuts are flush and join nicely. Knowing that wood can expand and contract quite a bit (which can be compounded over long runs), I'd be curious for you to maybe address how those factors fit into your decisions about joints and fasteners. On the one hand, if you make things too tight, the only give is the wood, which can buckle, warp, and break. On the other, if it's too loose, you lack rigidity and water seal. I know you addressed the small gaps in the planking (which will swell), but I would love it if you could spend a minute or so talking about these factors when it comes to the ship's interior in one of your future videos. Great job as always! Love seeing the progress and having you both back in the boathouse again!
The joints themselves are specified in the plans, and have been used in wooden boats for about 600 years.
@@ScottKenny1978 Thanks for explaining. As someone who has never built a boat, I'm one of the people they said they're making videos for (things they wish they had known before building a boat for the first time). I suppose the types of joints to use and where to place them would make sense for the plans. I guess what I'm wondering is deciding how tight to make the joints, which fasteners (rivets, bolts, glue, gravity) to use, and which face to shave over the other based on understanding of expansion and contraction to try and get the right balance of rigidity and flexibility. I suppose if one had done this before or worked in the industry, it might be obvious. But it's all new to me!
I think it's important to point out here that observance of the material on hand is key for addressing the issues that Kevin brings to light. Smart questions, Kevin. One could get overwhelmed with all of these details, but the biggest lesson we all get is that you do what you can when you can, knowing that the material will change a bit. It's actually freeing-the sort of tiny tolerances, say, in a machinists line of work don't work here.
Your consistency and patience with fitting all the joints is amazing. I’m very curious as to what the ‘house’ looks like.
Check out our Instagram or Facebook accounts to see the mockup that will be in next week's video. It'll give you a sense.
You two are getting to look like Shipwrights more and more each week!!
Is it the gray hair or the fashion?
@@AcornToArabella Yep, it the Fashion!!
Finally. All hands on deck.
I guess its as much a sculpture as an assembly. A work or art and skill. Maybe thats why a boat seems so alive.
Hey, got in here early. One of the first. Great job guys, thanks Ben.
Its 8pm here so Im good
I know it's not a race and an unfair one for many reasons - BUT who's ahead in construction - Acorn or Tally Ho? It seemed Acorn was leading the charge but with Alix then later Steve taking time off (both well deserved) and Tally Ho being able to keep a sizable crew during C19 - Tally Ho has surged ahead it seems.
I was surprised how fast Tally Ho's planking has been (having a bigger crew helps).
Hopefully, Acorn can start getting more crew help this year and maybe their planking woes are behind them when they re-start, a huge building surge is primed for 2021 for Acorn.
Go team Acorn!
Go team Tally Ho!
Tally Ho is further along, but who knows when Leo is going to decide to do some insanely time consuming work (like making and even polishing the bronze floors).
Well what we are seeing may not be exactly where the projects are. But based on what we are seeing they are pretty close. There will be a new TH tomorrow were the degree of planking will be visible. TH will go much faster on the planking because he lined off the whole boat, he has pristine stock, he's using butt blocks (much faster than scarfs), and fitting planks is easier because TH has a flat transom instead of a canoe stern. He also has a crew, one of which is a professional shipwright. But he has done some incredibly labor intensive things like mirror polishing all the bronze and hand peening every rivet. If things continue as they are TH will hit the water first. But like you said, it's not a race. They are each doing it their way.
Werdz
Nice work
Not sure what im going to watch with my Saturday morning breakfast sandwich when you guys finish. Part of me hopes it takes you a while but I also want you to finish it up!
You'll still watch this, I suppose. It'll be videos of her sailing and traveling instead though. ;)
I'm sure you guys already might have planned this but a timelapse of beginning the keel to finished deck frame and planking to date would be sooooo cool.
That WOULD be so cool.
Awesome music starting at 5:37!
Just looking at the frame and construction of this boat it looks like it's going to cut through the water so effortlessly such a tight little piece of construction I am chomping at the bit to see this thing dropped into the water it's almost like when you're 10 years old waiting for some big fat guy to drop through the chimney
I hate the moment at 22:27. Watching since you used around 500 blocks of wood and hydraulic jacks to excavate a huge block of lead. Can't wait to see her in the water!
Awww. See ya next week. :)
Please remember that the main house wall sides will act as a large box beam. If properly connected to the deck framing they will add tremendous strength to the long unsupported span created by the opening. In a traditional box beam a plywood sheathing creates the equivalent of a very large solid beam. If the siding on the main house or the framing incorporates elements to stiffen the wall it will be strong and durable. Nice job.
Considering the assembly will be, essentially, epoxy-glued strip-plank construction, it'll have a similar strength to the type of construction you're describing/recommending. Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
Its amazing how sharp you have your chisels to go through black locust like that, I have some that I deal with for walking sticks and it just beats up and dulls tools and getting hand tools through it is so hard even with shaving sharp tools
Sharpening is a constant practice, Dan. For sure.
well I have to admit I've heard of some lame excuses in my life but sleep slow well have to admit that's a new one. lol Arabella coming along pretty good by the looks of things! That deck is getting pretty close to just about being completely framed, exciting times, for sure.
Nice job fella's. Hey!!!! Have you guys considered doing a bloopers or oops video?? Or maybe you guys are just that good where you didn't have any oopsies.... haha.
I have noticed a rash of RUclips videos depicting air compressor tank explosions due to condensed water rusting the bottom of the tanks. I hope that you guys are aware of this and drain your tank condensate frequently. This is an incredible build series. I can't wait to see the outcome. thanks.
Thanks for sharing that tip, Dennis.
Love your “Japanese pull saw” I only ‘discovered’ them 4yrs ago building an oak framed trailer. Did the boatbuilders 100+yrs ago have anything similar?
If you haven't done this already, I'll suggest putting in a time lapse camera that takes a handful of photos a day, so that once the boat is done you can show the progress in one clip.
Well, it would be a long editing process, but they could also pull stills from all of the videos over the course of the build and make a progressive video, but I can only imagine how many weeks it would take to compile. Your idea would be great for the rest of the time in the boat-house, though.
So... When do we get to see the Acorn to Arabella blooper reel...?
Sharpen those chisels! Jeeze
...right?!!!
This is what makes me proud to be an American. You guys are the true American dream come to life.