Galley Renovation and Shore Power - Episode 304 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 14 мар 2024
- While high winds and colder temperatures may prevent tasks from being completed on deck, it’s a great time to hunker down below and work on some projects.
There’s been a nice dent made in the to-do list. Robin is psyched to find that Starlink has a home. And now that shore power is up and running, Steve gives Robin a tutorial on the process.
It turns out that the diesel heater provides plenty of warmth, so Steve decides to repurpose the wood stove space. Luckily, thanks to his past foresight, Steve designed the area for easy disassembly and modification. Good job, past Steve! While working on the cabinetry, he also adds a spice rack so there is plenty of storage for Robin’s beloved salt.
Steve and Robin take a trip to the Cape Cod Maritime Museum located in Hyannis to learn about the area’s nautical history. The Executive Director provides a tour, highlighting exhibits that focus on the lighthouses of Cape Cod, female trailblazers of Cape Cod, the Portland Gale, and the Lifesaving Service. The museum is currently working on restoring a surf boat and offers youth programs, including boat-building courses. If you are interested in visiting the Cape Cod Maritime Museum, visit their website for more information: capecodmaritimemuseum.org/.
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Acorn to Arabella started as a wooden boat building project in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve began the journey as an amateur wooden boat builder crafting a 38' wooden sailboat in his 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 now sailing the boat-sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that traditional wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project continues beyond the boat shop, as Steve and crew travel and learn to cruise aboard the handmade wooden boat that they've built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.
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Kudos to whoever came up with "The spice rack must flow" in the credits.
Eff me! That tour of the museum was a real diamond effort! If anyone deserves a promotion its that girl! Super impressed!
And that’s just the highlights, Elizabeth is great!
Kinda hard to get a promotion when you are the director of the museum *wink*
Aw shucks!! 😊
Love the out take - "In Loving Memory" for an inanimate object.
I grew up on Barnegat bay -Long Beach Island NJ.... What a beautiful example of a sneakbox - !!!
Steve , one suggestion, In the RV World when we hookup to a power post we shut off the breaker then plug in. This prevents and potential arcing between the plug and socket. We then flip breaker. Un plugging just the reverse, breaker off first. Enjoy every video, thanks.
Second, that: best to connect the boat end first then hook to the pedestal. Personally I prefer the “Smart Plug” style of plug for the boat connection. I am envious of your electrical system technology. Great job.
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I'll third that and get yourself a power conditioner (with a replaceable surge fuse) from watch dog or something. You want clean power and potential surges to be suppressed before they hit your boats systems. As always love the build!
We do the same thing as 120/240 electricians. When the meter is installed into the meter socket, the main breaker is turned off; meter installed; main breaker turned back on.
Yeah, asking smoke, there is no such thing as electricity, to jump an air gap always causes problems.
How do we know it's smoke and not electricity, it's not electricity that comes out your ears when you stick your finger in a power socket.
(yeah I know it's a terrible joke)
This is a no brainer Shut off the breaker to the ship shut and then breaker off at the pole. Then energize the pole then energize the boat. This has and always be proper method of sailors that know best. Save your backside when smell smoke and not knowing where it is coming from.
The spice rack must flow...love it 🤣
You guys get a standing ovation for this one. I laughed, I cried, I learned.
Robin's smile when she got the affirmative reply to her question: "So it's permanent ? It will live there all the time, even when we are underway ?"
Steve . You should run on shore power as much as possible.. charging and then depleting your batterys will tax them.. they only have so many charge and discharge cycles... Also running shore power to feed the batterys and then at the same time pulling energy from them to run the boat is also taxing on the batterys.. if shore power is avalible i would run the boat off of that.. your inverter should provide the 12v power that your 12v system needs.. thus preserving the batterys over all life...
Steve, Robin and Ben deserve an award.... A2A is the project that keeps on project-ing!!! 😂 As a Brit though, I will TOTALLY rip on your shore power connections - jeez I'm so surprised *so many* American boaters are still alive!! 😂😂 Perplexing!! Arabella is looking phenomenal now you've completed all those trivial jobs and Honey-do's.... As ever, Ben, your editing, cuts, transitions and narration are brilliant! I would say you should do it profeasionally but you already do 😉😂😂
When rebuilding any kitchen it's always important to get the wife's input especially if she's the one doing the most of the cooking if you want a happy home. Important lesson for any newlyweds
I like Steve's approach to modularizing the interior. The wise person knows that as they move forward there's a very good chance they'll change their mind about things as they begin to use the systems in the boat and so he didn't paint himself into a corner. Well done. How many people without a lot of experience can predict how they will want to use the boat in the future?
Zero. The wise person compensates.
Gonna state the obvious here. But it’s just insane that it’s a 100% hand built
Ship. Accidentally found the channel when you poured the lead (melting metal was popular on RUclips at the time) and stayed every Friday since. Really really neat guys. Enjoy the boat
The keel pour was the first episode I saw too, and I immediately subscribed. I've seen every episode since, but still have some of the earlier ones to catch up on.
Greetings from the other side of the pond - Old England.
Great episode, Steve. It's a joy to watch you transform your dreams from plans into an actual home.
The Cape Cod Maritime Museum feature was captivating. Massive respect to Elizabeth, who's knowledge and passion shone through. I could listen to her for hours.
More like this is very welcome. You've managed a successful transformation from a building channel to a "life on a sailboat" channel. Bravo!
Love the continuing saga of Arabella Steve and Robyn. The Maritime Museum is really good. I'd love to visit it, but sadly I very much doubt I will get over to the states again.
Ben you do such a great job editing these. Always relaxing and informative.
Thanks, Captain!
Nice work with the tidy up Steve. The Maritime Museum was fascinating and not only does that young lady know her stuff, she is a great narrator. Loved the tour. The little fishing village I moved to Canada from has a hand rowed Lifeboat called The Ryder which has been restored and is in the harbour during the summer..
The segment from the museum was really interesting. I'd be interested in seeing similar segments from areas you visit.
Stay tuned! We hope to share the world once we’re done building out this dang boat!
Steve, Robin, as always, thanks for the video. The tour of the Cape Cod Maritime Museum was especially enjoyable, makes me want to be there. Thanks for taking us along. Kiva at 4:21 made me laugh, thanks.
Another great episode weaving in "the boat" and the greater sailing community!. Well done.
Thanks Bill! Happy Friday.
You two are perfect for each other. Congratulations on becoming a couple. The presentation of the Cape Cod Maritime Museum by the Executive Director was perfect.
Good morning neighbors, from Barnstable MA! Thank you for featuring our wonderful maritime museum!
Its a great little museum!
So nice when past me thought of the problems that present me would see (better when those problems are seen by present sweetie). So often I see boat videos where everything is getting tabbed with fiberglass into the hull, only to be ripped out as trash, 3 episodes later.
Great episode with the additional footage of the Cape Cod Maritime Museum.
I don’t recall which battery chemistry is on board, I think they were lithium ion. Keep in mind they have a finite charge/discharge cycles. Minimizing cycling when shore power is available will maximize battery bank life spans.
Super Episode. US Coastguard has the same origin as the RNLI in the UK and Ireland. Doing the same heroic job right up to the present!
So happy to see you are making progress in finishing your list. Shore power system is very interesting. My sail boat plugs into a breaker and that’s that. Your is so much more functional.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria Oregon (home of The Goonies movie) is also an excellent museum, if anyone finds themselves o the Pacific Northwest coast.
It primarily focuses on the unique challenges and history of crossing the bar where the Columbia River enters the Pacific Ocean, along with the history of navigating the Columbia itself. Even as a person who gets seasick standing on the dock, I feel it is one of the best museums I have visited and anyone in the area should check it out.
With shore power, always plug the boat side in first and then the dock side. That way the cord is secured first and then energized second, which is safer.
Hey Robin! Good job acting like you understood what Steve was showing you!😎😎
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE......................(sorry I'm Late, busy week lol...)
Nice Guy's, the work you did in the galley and awesome museum tour .
Thanks .
A note or two about shore power: Before connecting your shore power cable to an "unknown" power pedestal, check the voltage with your multimeter. Twice I have encountered miswired power pedestals with 220 volts--I was extremely lucky to have found this before energizing my vessel's electrical system.. Also, always open the power pedestal circuit breaker before disconnecting your shore power cable. Failure to do so will cause failure (in time) of the cable connector, usually the female end is the first to fail.
Hi Steve, Robin and Akiva,
I remember seeing Steve fitting that massive wonderful vice to the boat all that time ago during the early building days, it sure looked rock steady when you were chiseling, well done for thinking so far ahead.
Happy sailing cheers from the UK.
Steve ❤️'s his Emmerts
A transformer is a group of windings that induce a voltage on each other with a line side(shore power) and a load side (Arabella). There is no physical connection between those windings and adds a layer of protection due to no physical connection
Please repeat your explanation from, ‘a transformer’.
@@johnnunn8688 A changing electric field creates a magnetic field, and a changing magnetic field creates an electric field. Thus you can create an electric field from another without physically connecting them with wire.
N.B. Steve's isolating transformer probably does more than just this.
Nice work on the galley, especially like the spice rack. Loved the museum and the old boats.
With daylight saving in east coast America having happened 10th March means UK get it a hour earlier (only for the next 2 weeks though). Happy Friday from Plymouth UK
Happy Friday, 'bella fam! Bring on the St. Paddy's day fun!
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Dear Robin, Anne, Steve and all others who worked on Arabella,
It’s always nice to see how power on board is running and that some details are changed.
Willeke and I did love the report about Cape Cod Maritime Museum in this vlog. We look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands
Without trying to be a smart ass, always taught it's safer to connect the boat (ie first) to the shore power to prevent carrying a live cable back to the boat
A good tip for sure.👍
And always turn the breaker off at the source before plugging in a potential load...
Hello, Steve & Robin. Thank you and your crew for the channel. I enjoyed your visit to the museum and the connection to Michigan history through Anna Howard Shaw. She spent part of her youth in Big Rapids, Michigan during the lumber boom of the late 1800s. She was about 12 years old at the time her father relocated the family to the area. It's said that she took on the physical tasks of felling trees and chopping wood for the fireplace. There is a small park there dedicated to her with a life-sized bronze sculpture of her in the center of the park. Fair winds and following seas.
# 304 i recall #34 Great work Steve! Robin it`s the little things that make a boat a home!
That museum is utterly fascinating, Thanks for sharing.
I’m a big fan of history and organization so I especially enjoyed this one!! Hope your mom is doing well Steve!
Hey Steve, Robin, Akiva and Arabella. Another informative video. Great commitment and energy into your life’s project. Can’t imagine anything better than being on The Cape in Arabella. Looking forward to the next chapter in your story. Michael, Norwalk Ct.
Thanks Michael!
Love the dune ref in the credits. ❤
You must be part Irish carpenter your work is never down 😂
And the build goes on. It will never be done. That's a fact of life with a boat.🙂🙂
The technology of today is amazing, I had a 35’ sailboat for years being a mechanic I installed a SS 3 bank charger that was also isolated from each bank, the shore power would be available through out the boat and charger and a main breaker would turn on the shore power and there was a main breaker for battery power , at dock we would use shore power only and charge the batteries, the house batteries were two deep cycle 27 gauge batteries, and I had one very large forklift battery to run the refrigeration all the time , on anchor the refrigerator would run for almost 4 days I would start are diesel engine to charge the batteries and make hot water for showers and clean up , there was No solar in 1987 , LOL but it worked fine and we were the only people with ice cream on board ! Love your channel been watching it since you cut down the trees !
Oh US switched to Daylight Saving Time and EU does it in two weeks so we get AtoA videos an hour early.
good morning everyone
Good mornin’!
🇦🇺 Wat'd ya mean? It's Friday night? 😀
Good morning everyone from Australia Tasmania, thanks for my weekly fix.😊
Very interesting thanks, you two are looking good ,hope your Mum is doing ok 😊
Great Ep as usual, thanks. 👍
Always amuses me when some of the places are mentioned, today it was the turn of Old Yarmouth. In the old country we have Yarmouth, Isle of Wight which dates from 991 AD and Yarmouth in Norfolk, circa 1100 AD. ‘OLD’ Yarmouth indeed 🤣😂.
Isolation transformer explanation:
Electricity wants to get back to its source. Normally, the source is the power company, so "stray" power on the boat wants to get back to the power company any way it can, and will take inconvenient or corrosive paths to get there, like through the sea water and then the earth.
With an isolation transformer in place, the electricity now "thinks" that the transformer is the source, rather than the power company. So the easiest path back to source for electricity to take is generally through the boat's wiring instead of through the water.
It does this by using magnetism's magical relationship to electricity to insert an air gap between the shore power circuit and the boat, which others can explain more technically.
Suggestion. For the control panel use black tape with white lettering in your label maker. Much tidier.
On the idea of only plugging in when you need to charge the batteries. I'd suggest leaving the cord hooked up on both ends and when you don't actually want to draw power from shore, shut the breaker off at the post. Alternatively, if you don't want to have to get off the boat in the rain or cold or whatever to flip that breaker on, you can leave the breaker on at the post and shut and open your shore power breaker on the boat.
Just love your setteling in in the boat 😍😍
Isolation transformer: In order to have corosion. Electrons have to transfer into or out of the metal. Wires provide a path for electrons. A transformer primary coil converts electron flow into a magnetic field, the iron transformer core links that magnetic field to the secondary coil that converts back to electron flow. The magnetic link conveys energy, but blocks electron flow between primary and secondary, so no electrons can move between ship and shore.
This is a somewhat simplified explaination. I will therefore address a couple of the things the pedants will ream me for: transformers work via _changing_ current and changing fields (which AC provides). Also positive ions are often involved in corrosion as well as electrons. You have to move electrons to create those ions.
Isolation transformers are really simple. They're just two entirely separate coils of wire wrapped around a core. One coil hooks to boat power and the other to shore power. There will be some fuses and monitoring hardware, but the fundamentals are that simple The shore power coil makes an electromagnetic field in the core, which induces a voltage in the boat wiring.
The idea is that there's no physical connection (no flowing electrons) between the shore power and the boat wiring. Which means if your boat has a connection to the water it won't complete a circuit to the shorepower ground.
Your guide at the museum is very very very good. I miss the right English words that she is more than terrific.
The spice rack must flow? A fellow Dune fan I assume! Home fix projects are the best and you have really done a neat job on the galley. Love the museum and the story of women sailors.
It worked a bit better than: "He who controls the spice rack, controls the universe".
He who can destroy a thing controls it!
Well just take Herbert’s word for that one.
That looks like the ideal place for an 80 lb dog. He looks so happy.
Your gals eyes were lit right up! after seeing what you did to help organize her kitchen that's how you please your woman Steve Your on the right track budd. Pretty soon your boat will be already to go on one of your first real adventures.
What happens if you go to Europe and you need to connect to 220? Will you have to modify the shore power system?
Hi Steve and co., I’ve been to to the CC Maritime Museum may times. I do believe I remember the the surf boat don there around 2018-19, she looked pretty sad back then.
A friend of mine has one of what was one of the only few restored models of this type life/ surf boats. He got it of the sea’s scouts. She was in ruff shape when he acquired her. She’s since been restored properly and live in Arey’s Pond. Back when he restored her…. I do believe there was only two in good shape.
Does anyone else feel like arabella shrank Since she left the boat house.
It's just bizarre how huge she used to look in the boathouse.And now, she looks so tiny sitting in the water. Even when you guys are inside She just seems so tiny. Hope it doesn't.
Feel that way. Anyway great Progress and I like seeing that museum. I'm sure you guys have found some great hiking trails around there would love to see that. Love to see you guys out and about with Akiva. Have a great week. I wait impatiently, Friday morning!
The memorial to the tile at the end had me cracking up, I'm a lot like steve I do it my way rather then listen to common opinion then expect different results 😆
Good morning Akiva and Crew 👍😸😺
Morning!
Good Morning from Sandwich, MA
Howdy neighbor, from Barnstable.
With regard to the US Lifesaving Service...
Earlier this week the UK's lifeboat service, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RLNI), celebrated it's 200th anniversary. It's still primarily volunteer crewed and funded.
And, I hasten to add, very effective. Effective enough that it covers the Republic of Ireland as well as the United Kingdom and it's local possessions (the Isle of Mann and the Channel Islands)
Happy Bicentennial to the RLNI!
"In the RV World when we hookup to a power post we shut off the breaker then plug in". After watching Steve plug in at the pedestal without switching "off", then pick-up the female plug-in on a wet deck I most heartily agree.
it' was 85 degrees and sunny on the florida gulf coast today.
Happy wife happy life Stephen :)
thanks for the museum tour.
if you monitor the temperature of the batteries (in multiple places) you may get an alarm if they are 'too hot'.
Coast Guard was formed by Hampton. Just saying from a Coastie that knows better. Fair winds my friends.
@18:29 Akiva was locked on. That's hilarious 😂
"ACE IS THE PLACE ..."
sometimes that line between patting and kicking gets mighty fine indeed
Happy Friday; you're early today....rr Normandy
Daylight savings began here in the US. We’ll be back in sync with you in two weeks.
J'ai oubliee' qu'on etait different ici@@AcornToArabella
Stray DC current is what eats your metal fittings, The isolation transformer blocks DC current while passing AC current.
It transfers the energy only (as most transformers). You would not want a shared ground/earth to carry a current through the water between your boat and landside (or between the boat and land in general via _any_ medium such as a human). For the same reason don't put an (earthed) extension cord from shore onto the boat for use there.
@@benhetland576 and it is DC current that is the issue
@@LadyDewBuild With an electrical fault present the AC too will make its "return" through neutral, earth/ground or protective gnd if it can. Not safe!
I knew a man named Sam Hunt that made sneakboxes from Waretown, NJ. The last sneakbox i knew him to make, he painted lime green. I said why Sam? He said it's what he had. Gabe bought the boat!
I've lived on the cape for 12 years and never knew there was a maritime museum in Hyannis...
Come and visit!!
Get a nice pair of side cutters and trim your zip ties flush , those little ends cut your hands when you are fishing around.
My understanding @7:30 is it prevents your boat from becoming an anode in an electrolysis circuit.
Hey Steve, good policy not to use any power cable while in a coil due to heating issues and voltage drop. Overall bad practice. Best Tuscany extension cord fully eextended with some air space. I usually walk it back and forth if it is long. Bruce
Isolation transformers work the same way that most transformers work. What makes them a little different is that they're not converting the voltage to a higher or lower voltage (step up or step down). The turns ratio which determines the output voltage is 1:1. The number of turns of wire on the input matches the number of turns of wire on the output.
A transformer in general and you'll find them in all kinds of electrical circuits is a two separate (or more) coils of wire wrapped around a metal core. The 'primary' winding is connected to AC power and as the power fluctuates up and down swinging from positive to negative and back again 60 times per second it causes a voltage to be induced on the 'secondary' coil supplying the boat. Transformers don't work on DC current, only AD. They require an expanding and collapsing magnetic field to induce a voltage on the secondary coil/s. The coils are separate, not connected together electrically but rather through 'inductance' so you won't get a complete circuit between the two causing an unwanted current flow between the supplying power system and the boat systems.
As the name infers, it creates an isolation, a barrier because the circuits are not 'physically' connected.
There are exceptions to all of this, they're often called 'autotransformers' where the primary and secondary windings are connected together internally. This is usually to 'buck', or 'boost' the voltage without having to build a transformer large enough to handle the entire circuit load. They're smaller and will 'add or subtract' from the supply voltage. They don't isolate at all like the average transformer does.
“Kiester” …. Egad! Shades of my father 70 years ago.
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I don’t think “ahead of his time” is a moniker that will stick to Steve, ever. And we are completely fine with that.
I am British and seeing American sockets blows my mind. That shore power 3 pin plug is nuts, it looks like it just wants to snap off. It looks like it was designed on a friday afternoon.
In rhe UK our normal household 220v AC plugs can be run over by tanks and for external stuff we have a 3 pin 20amp socket like this but its also built like a warship, is IP67 and obviously rated for our 220v supply. Europe have also adapted the same socket. Seeing 1mm flimsy aluminium pins instead of thick solid copper coated pins blows my mind.
Also that US socket has the weight of the cable being supported by the pins and not a supporting housing. My mind is blown. Looks like you'll be replacing them A LOT.
That's a locking plug (looks like a NEMA L5-30), so it's plenty secure. The real issue with North American wiring connectors is that the blades don't have a nonconductive root, so there's live exposed metal when they're in the middle of being plugged in. We somehow manage to avoid electrocuting ourselves anyway. :-)
Yea, the UK plugs are familiar to many here in Norway as well, not because we use them, but because they often come packaged with equipment destined for the European market as an alternative to the German SchuKo variant. The one thing we have learned about these big UK beasts is: Don't step on them! That is the one thing worse than stepping on lego...
What's the over/under on Steve teaching boat building to kids at the museum?
I wouldn't bet on it.
When you are hooked to shore power, you don't have a bypass to the 110V without using the batteries and inverter?
Im going to explain how the power grid works. The shore power is delivered via the yellow cord to the boat. It then goes to a junction box,that is hooked to the blue box, now the important part. The power is delivered into the blue box and this box does stuff. What , I have no idea. But it does. You're welcome 😅
That isolation transformer keeps you from providing electrolytic protection for all the other boats on the dock with your zincs.
Alternate title: "How to Keep Your Princess Happy"
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plug power cable into boat first, then into power plinth. Don’t plug into plinth first then handle an exposed cable end, you cannot always rely on the plinth circuit breaker.
Good advice, but generally the "boat end" wouldn't be exposed in any case. I believe even the US ones are female insulation-covered holes, aren't they?
Steve walking through the boat house wanting to pick up a tool and start working on the boats.
Do you know if there's dock space available in the spring?
Pete Culler, legend 🎉h