Covering Boards & Bronze Fabrication - Episode 221 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
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Covering boards are coming closer to their final shape. Decision time again! The toe rail, covering boards, and stanchion bases all have shapes that affect each other, meaning that we'll have to rely on Steve's depth of knowledge in bronze fabrication for custom stanchion bases-the ones salvaged from a decommissioned wooden sailboat won't work out.
We load up Bob Emser's trailer, a big display of lumber organization indeed, so he can get started with building our wooden dinghy. Be sure to subscribe to The Art of Boatbuilding to follow what happens with "Little" Victoria. / theartofboatbuilding
The Art of Boatbuilding "Introducing 'Victoria' a New Sailing Tender S3-E1"
• Introducing "Victoria"...
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Acorn to Arabella is a wooden sailboat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur boat builder building a 38' wooden boat 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 beyond-sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that wooden boatbuilding commands. This ultimate DIY wooden boat project will continue well past launch, when he and the crew 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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I like the double audio track, it's like being on mushrooms 🍄.
Yeah … would have liked to get all of Steve’s “speech” though 😂
@@pfalzgraf7527 That seemed more like an editing glitch to me.
I do not. Feels like chaos to me. ;)
Please re-edit the first 90 sec. of the audio track -- it's really annoying!
@@marcusdire8057 you need a mushroom.
I love that you include your grandfather and the farm activities in the videos, it puts you, your project, and your location in perspective. I'm excited to see the tender take form.
Thanks! We think of these videos as a way to bring you along on the journey. All of it, even the things that happen in the fields and with family.
KP is fab - their giddy look at every new discovery is just infectious!
I could listen to Grandpa's stories for days. There's a lot of knowledge, wisdom & experience in there -- and seems like a downright nice guy too!
He’s a wonderful guy. 😊
Ben your music is such a nice departure from the regular old stock tunes that seem to be on every other YT channel. Bravo.
We’re proud of all of Ben’s talents, and lucky to have him here.
love the bailer discussion at the end too!
Bob does beautiful work! It's going to be a treat watching him build the tender.
Thanks!
All of that hard work stock piling various wood and supplies is really paying off now. And now we get another video series to follow too!!! All the best Steve.
“It looks like a boat” - best line ever !!! Good morning from Vermont.
It’s great to see some of that older farm equipment still in use. Where I’m from bailers of that vintage have long since either sold for scrap or parked in the grove forever.
What a great way to spend a Friday evening. Seeing Bob pick up materials for the new Victoria tender, KP and Steve getting the covering boards further along, Aaron getting to be involved in a project that will rarely be available to people at his age and Robin and her daughter Lucy getting some time in on the project. What a great bunch of people.
Having worked on a farm as a teenager, Steve's granddad's story at the end brought back a lot of memories. Thank you all.
Thanks for being here, Matt!
So cool that Bob from the "Art Of Boat Building" is going to build your tender. Guaranteed to have a beautiful and functional build for sure. Great episode and lots of positive progress. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks
Loved the story at the end with grandpa!!🙏
It is like watching this amazing symphony, with all the different players resulting in this incredible team moving this project forward.
What a sweet thought, thank you Sonya!
Agreed. Every instrument has an important part to play. Clean up can be just as important as shaping a piece of wood or metal. A stray spark can find a pile of shavings or saw dust and the whole thing is done. An oil soaked rag can spontaneously combust and the same outcome. Every player in this orchestra is responsible for their share of clean up and keeping their eyes open to hazards.
Even Akiva has his part to play, keeping rodents out of the shop so they don't chew cords that can result in fires or electrical shocks, or heaven forbid, holes in the boat.
Whether it is blasting parts in the cabinet, or running for a part or tool, even Aaron is helping out significantly. Everything he does saves from someone else having to come off another task and he is learning trade bits that will help him later in life too. I know helping my grandfather's and dad as a kid made me a harder more productive worker than the others around me who would rather milk the clock if something made the line shut down when I worked factories. When possible, I would unload my own truck as a truck driver instead of waiting an hour or two for an available lumper on a busy dock while other truckers would wait 3 or more hours and gripe about the wait time then miss the next load opportunity. I never understood sitting on one's bum waiting for someone else to do something I could do myself, or paying someone else to do something I could do myself with minimal research and save the money to do something more for my family. I applaud Steve's work ethic and re-use of materials when and where possible and fixing things instead of replacing things with new machines where possible, just like his grandpa.
That's what I learned from my grandparents too.
Great to hear Bob is going to build the tender. Have been watching his channel now for at least a couple of years if not more
🙌thanks for being here!
The tender will be BEAUTIFUL....Hope Bob puts it up on his site....cheers...rr Normandy, Fra.
Really enjoyed the build and music of this episode! Kudos to the editors, musicians and rest of the team :)
Am super excited already about this project 🤗
Love Bob's work - hope he got a cup of tea after he got out of his truck.
Love that ol hay-baler sound, bring back memories here!
K. P. 's reactions are so honest! They should have their own RUclips reaction channel. 😊 great getting to see Arabella reaching the home stretch.
😁
Having to redo work on global RUclips is a quick course in humility. And that's just fine.
And yes it will be a joy to watch your tender being built. GO EASY!
looking great guys
With Bob building the tender you know it's going to be gorgeous!
Fabulous episode - it had a bit of everything. Loved it.
Thanks, Andrew!
It was through Bob’s “Art of Boat Building” channel that I found Arabella, and have been hooked on both ever since. Keep up the great work. I am looking forward to Bob’s tender build and matching it to Arabella!
some random melting lead video lead me to this channel.
Wet bails after rain loaded one higher than law allowed. Failed to make banked turn with enough speed! Truck rolled my side after I checked to see what was burning, tire rubbing wood bed!
Before I could sit back in seat she rolled over! Foot caught between damp ground truck door jam! Right foot now has 25 degree rotation! First and last hay hauling job! Thanks brother-in law!
Holy heck!
Excellent travail comme d’habitude 🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love that silly giddy look on Bob's face looking at that wood! That old bailer is awesome. It's amazing how much engineering goes into something like that and I find that farmers have a whole lot of craftiness and engineering skills and they can fix almost anything. My uncle Mick was a brilliant man and he passed those skills on to his kids and grandkids. You can see where your granddad has passed on that set of skills into you. And it's so sweet that you are teaching young Aaron those skills. He is absorbing everything he can from you and that is fantastic. Happy Friday everyone!
You can tell Bob is going to do an amazing job with it.
Dear Arabellas Acorns.
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! I can't wait to watch the building of little Victoria, especially because mainly made out of reclaimed wood. I absolutely love to see that all of you are so incredibly positive characters.
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Cheers! Happy Friday!
@@AcornToArabella
Cheers to you all too. Thanks for replying and especially for another heart. I totally appreciate both very much. By the way, here are some for the Arabella team (including Akiva): 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Hope I haven't forgotten someone. If so, please tell me and I will send more hearts immediately. ;-)
Nice to see Robin again.
Hi Lucy
Big fan from Texas
Great progress on the boat! This episode gave me the feels- that bailer!! lots of great memories of summers putting up hay with my uncles in WI. I remember the days of pull the bales off, but by the time I was getting involved, the farm had upgraded to a bailer that could throw the bales back. Easier going in, but sorting through the jumbled pile to send them up the hay elevator was a challenge. There is nothing quite like the smell of freshly baled alfalfa...
Thanks for sharing your memories with us!
As mentioned by another reader, consider incorporating your stantion bases into you toerail supports. less holes in you deck/covering board for fasteners. I believe Port Townsend Foundry has some examples in their catalogue.
My thought as well.
When I heard 'canvas covered' I recognized the plans I have in my garage for "Handy Andy"! I'm excited to see the tender put together. When I have the time it's going to be a great project for me and my kids.
It sure will! Family boatbuilding is awesome! We used to have a tent for it at the WoodenBoat Show when I worked for the magazine. -Anne
I love all of K.P.'s reactions to all the animals and farm equipment! It is neat seeing this genius boat builder fascinated and interested in the farm stuff that I've grown up with as I am with all this incredible boat stuff they do! 😃
Great video. Really enjoyed the bonus footage about farming.
Cheers, Michael!
Project looking great, video editing as well.
Great episode. 😎
Can't wait to see the tender come together. Also love that you guys are getting some sponsors, great that it's also relevant to the ship. NGL i might just have to pick one up for power outages. I work nights, and if there is ever a power outage it always seems to be my days off lol.
Thank you! We’ll always choose sponsorships that a. We can stand behind and b. That we think people in our community will enjoy or appreciate. Cheers!
Excellent stuff bro
I'm eager to follow along with Bob's construction of the tender. This is going to be great! Neat to see Robin again and first time I have seen her daughter, hope we see them a bit more downstream. Always cool to see what's going on around the farm in the background and the sense of strong family ties is awesome.
Thanks, Jay! Happy Friday!
Bob Emser building the dinghy-last time we saw a collaboration of similar artistic magnitude was when Davinci hired Michelangelo to remodel his apartment.
Seeing KP’s reactions and smile right out of her car is so inspiring ! She brings me a smile every time.
No task is too simple -as a clean up - or too complicated for her. What a great companion you’ve got in her Steven ! 👍👏👏
Hey Bob. It's super easy to test for lead in paint. Any hardware or paint store can supply you with a test kit. Fun video as always
Another good one folks.
WooHoo! Happy Arabella day everyone! Coffee up.
#a2acoffeeclub happy Friday!
Nothing wrong with keeping that "McGiver" spirit alive. That's what built America, for real.
Heck, the Colonel's Hummer broke down in the field one time in the Army and he wanted to be able to have his driver start and stop it. The starter switch went out and we didn't have an extra on hand. So, I rewired the starter circuit to the headlight switch (different than civilian cars), then on the switch for run, and bump the high beam switch for start. Of course turn off the lights to kill the engine. I put the low beams on the black out lights and an external switch for for the blackout lights.
I ran into his driver again a couple of months later and the Colonel never had him get it fixed, he purposely had it kept that way as a theft prevention system so no one could just jump into his Hummer and take off with it. I guess he liked my modification.
An excellent show. Thank you so much Team Arabella ❤️🙏 subscribed to "the art of boatbuilding"
Excellent! Thanks! 🙌
Your grandparents are just lovely
♥️
Damn, I completely forgot about your channel. I'm subscribed but I don't get any notifications at all when videos are uploaded. Granted I don't have the bell icon selected. But I don't have the bell icon selected on any of the channels I'm subscribed to but I still get notifications from other channels.
Well now I got a lot of videos to watch to get caught up. Your channels like a little Chuck of gold, and I'm glad I found it. Thanks for documenting your whole boat building process and including us in your journey.
I do a newsletter, too, because of how crappy the notifications from RUclips are. We’ve got the signup in the description.
What a great old baler. I am so glad it's yours, and not mine!
It's in my summer bucket list to see you guys shop. I've been so busy on my own stick an brick getting things in order. But it's not far from the 617
Get on out here, Kevin!
Great episode! Got to learn a bit about hay balers as well as getting to see the progress made on Arabella's deck!
Also, I subbed to Bob Emser's channel. I want to see the build of Arabella's tender.
Great idea to have Bob make the tender. Best collab ever. On the subject of the bronze brackets for covering board and toerail, please make the base round or even better, oval - it will be a lot more pleasing to the eye..
We will probably round the corners, but we have so many other things to make that we probably won’t get extremely fussy about the way that they look. We hope that they’re pleasing to the eye, but that for the most part they do their important job. Thanks for saying so about Bob! We’re excited to work with him.
So good to see Robyn again
What a fantastic woman! Not just silently supporting a dream but hands on.
Definitely not the norm.
delrin for the runners was what immediately came to MY mind...
Cool! Thanks!
Looking Good 👍
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Many thanks for a great channel!
Stanchions should always lean inboard. That way they are safe from crushing/breaking if you are moored to a dock higher than the deck. I know from experience. Can caue some damage if they are bent against dock due to swell or whatever…
Thanks for sharing!
Nice to see Robyn helping out...
She’s a busy person but she’s extremely helpful in all kinds of ways off camera, and yeah we love having her in the shop, too!
Ahhh... that "chug'ug-thughed" rhythm of a bailer sure brings back childhood memories.
I just wanted to say you folks are doing amazing work there. I grew up on a farm of the foothills of Appalachia. I was blessed with great parents who introduced me to sailing at 3 years old with an old Rhodes 19, sailing on a lake with 1400 miles of shoreline. Long story short, I am retired now with a 100 ton Masters License Sail Endorsed, and 89 foot three masted gaff rigged schooner experienced. I find my wanderlust for the siren sea calling to me. But alas my comrad, I must live vicariously, through a younger,wiser individual. You young people are nothing short of miraculous. Please keep up your honorable work.
Thank you very much.
I didn't realise Bob was building the tender. Will look forward to seeing that.
cheers from Australia
Cheers! Yes we had a really interesting (and funny!) discussion about it during our live video from The WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, Connecticut. ruclips.net/video/41Q9jDJJEDw/видео.html
Double audio track all 1:15 :) Love you guys. Cheering you on!!
Cheers!
I had the pleaasure to meet Steve at the Wooden Boat show last month and being so giddy I completely spaced the fact that Bob was standing right next to him and I failed to say hello! Rookie mistake. Both Bob and Steve are a joy to watch work and darn good humans to boot.
Hooray, thanks for visiting us, Zach!
Been watching you from the beginning... and love every moment... thinking that sitting here listening to Grandpa talk about the bailer brought back a ton of memories for me... I'm 65 now... on full disability, (100% Service Connected Disabled Vet)... but as a skinny little 100lbs soaking wet kid in the early 70's, I'd stay on my Uncle's farm during the summertime... in the heart of Amish country in Northern Indiana... Mom, and my Aunt used to be Amish, and still have family to this day that are 100% Amish, with Horse and buggies and all.... and yes!!! I've bailed hay the Amish way!!!! LOL...
The Wisconsin Engine Grandpa talks about with the hand crank... yeah... been there done that... My biggest fear, ... every now and then that engine would start, and the hand crank would stay attached... spinning 100mph.... You'd duck and cover because ya never knew what direction it would fly off in... and fly off it would!!!!
I still question how that skinny little kid could handle those bails, and load them 4-5 high on the wagon, we'd load up a couple wagon loads, take em to the barn and unload them...
My first summer living with him, I got $75.00 for the summer... damn did I think I was rich... LOL...second summer $100.00 third summer $125.00 and should have been killed on a really stupid tractor accident!!! and left the farm... LOL... what I'd give to have that farm today!!! Y'all keep doing what you're doing, and for us old goats... throw in Grandpa doing farm work every now and then...
Yeah... I know there's channels out there that do farming... but those have thousand's of acres and million's of dollars worth of equipment... just not the same...
Thank you so much for sharing your memories. This is great!
brake time hear the best 1 of the week arabella n chill
Another great episode. Go through the interior of the boat a number of times to get all the shavings and dust out, otherwise it will come back to haunt you in the bilges and bilge pumps.
We do!
So great that Bob will be building the tender! Was starting to get worried that we wouldnt get more content from him since he´s soon finished with his project! :)
We’ve conspired to keep him busy 😁
Love Robin's safety sandals there!
😁she wears em in winter, too.
That bailer reminds me of my childhood summers at my uncles in Wisconsin bailing hay and the bailing hooks.
Thanks for sharing your memory!
Grandpa is great!
Crossover events!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
This episode does make my wonder about the wisdom of setting a cast in stone launch date. Best wishes and hope it goes well and you make it the the dock next July.
Launching the boat requires that we have her exterior complete, but not necessarily some of the very minor details of rigging and interior layout. There are great many things that we would want to cruise with for a while before making final decisions. Perhaps most people think that by the time we launch she will be entirely finished with everything just so. That’s not the case.
If you made the upper portion of the toe rail brackets from thick wall bronze pipe, you can use them as the sockets for the stanchions. A notch on the outboard bottom edge of the tube would allow for drainage, and it would probably save quite a bit of machining... ⛵
17:07. When that steamed board goes down and you see it almost in its final resting place, you really feel how strong this boat will be. With the ribs cut down to size everything they do makes this boat look salty. I can completely see this boat chewing up rough seas and asking for more.
Ahh, haying, that takes me back! 🤣
Good Grief, that hay baler is a health and safety nightmare. Amazing that any farmers survived back in the day.
Good morning Akiva and Crew 😻😸😺
Happy Friday! 🎉
Oh and I took you out kayaking on the 4th of July. It was a great day on the lake.
🎉🎇
The ultimate Rube Goldberg invention - the hay baler! Knotters are a mechanical wonder.
I grew up farming in Holland, Ma. Im only 64 now and remember bailing hay using the ole hay bailer and grabbing the bails up to a wagon and unloading them into the barn...You might call this romantic in ways, but loads of hard work and i slept really good at night... Pretty much all this work is automated or using a tractor for all of it now... I miss those days actually... Power on Grampa....
Lovely memory, thanks for sharing it.
i love bob.
Steve's grandpa is cool. Thanks for putting the back of me in your video!
He’s the greatest.
I think the best part of this video was watching the letters spell out V I C T O R I A.
Beatiful wark you boat
Yep, there's some audio doubled overlap around the 45 second mark....Whoopsies!
Hi, Great Chanel. I really enjoy watching it. About the bronze brackets you showed in tHis episode. I was just thinking that you might be able to integrate the fittings used to Hold the stantions with the bronze brackets that ties the toerail to the covering board. Basically having a pipe for the vertikal part of the brocket with the same inner diameter as the outer diameter of the stantion.Just a thought , Maybe you already thought of it and discarded the idea.
That hay bailer brings back memories of blistering July days spent walking along behind one and bucking those fresh bales up onto a flat bed wagon with a pitchfork. The mule, Jude, pulling wagon, understood to advance then pause while we loaded the bales. Tennessee, early 1960's. Jude's real job was to team up with his sister mule, Jewels, and plow that old river bottom loam for planting.
Glad you’ve shared your memory, Dee!
Heh! Bob rules. I love that dude.
He’s so great!
Had a gaff rigged 24 footer in Sea Scouts as a teenager in the 60's. I believe it was built in the late 1800's. Don't remember what kind of boat. Could sleep 4 in a small cabin. After working on it for a year finally got to sail her. Called her the SSS Orion.
Wow! Late 1800s!
Good Morning y'all
Good morning, happy Friday!
Now I know where I've seen that bailer before. It took until the last scene. It made the everlasting gobstoppers in Willy Wonka's factory. It sounds a little different on the farm but the articulation gesticulations are unmistakable. What a great name for a punk band, ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Kalamazoo Michigan, The Articulation Gesticulations.
😁
I hope I can retire and go see Bob, maybe help him a bit on the tender. good video !!
Hello from Greece.
Hello!
What everyone else said about the audio.. still great video.
love the big hair girl / we need more of that LOL
Credit to Steve's Grandfather for inspiring a sense in Steve of how to do the apparently impossible.!
Grandpa Dave is wonderful!
Once again A2A starts my Friday swimmingly. Thanks, crew. #a2acoffeeclub PS: EcoFlow seems to be making a big advertizing push on many of my favorite channels. From what I've seen/heard they have some decent products. I don't at all begrudge such dedicated folk having a few more shekels in the coffer.
Happy happy Friday, Bill!
I'd make the toerail vertical, so it goes inward compared to the hull. otherwise your toe rail top will become your bumper, beter to have the edge hull/covering board your bumper if you dock, that is way stronger.
Hope we are going to see the build of the tender
You sure will. Follow both channels to get the whole story, because Bob will go into more detail than we will.