Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 52: Cutting the Aft Rabbet
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2019
- As we steam in Arabella's frames we have now reached the aft section of the build and need to cut the rabbet up the sides of the stern posts to determine where our frame sockets should land. Once cut we spend a day steaming in frames with a couple snags along the way.
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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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It's inspiring to see ordinary folk come in and bend their back to a task. This is the essence of teamwork, truly.
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I really like the "ooo-gah" horn for the timer alarm. Gives it that "Alright men! Battle stations! This is it! This is what we trained for!" kind of vibe.
No idea how this series ended up on my feed but I'm hooked. I'm not a sailboat guy but this boat has me hooked, and by the looks of the amount of volunteers you get you've touched the souls of quite a few people. Keep up the good work.
Watching you guys build this boat has been so good for my soul!
Steve, your adze work is now so much better than the early days when you started cutting the keel rabbit and were trying to use it like an axe. Practice makes perfect, well done!
I'd hope after using a tool for 40+ hours I would get better with it =) If I didn't I'd be very concerned! haha!
This is an absolute pleasure to watch this come together. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, Arabella will live forever!
Another great video guys.
For some reason i can see Mike Rowe fitting right in with your crew being all hands on and grunting. Doing the manly skilled stuff you do, i know my brain is playing with me, but give him a shout and see what he says. Can't hurt.
Great video as always guys, thanks. Also great to see the team at work as well.
You guys are truly inspiring. Great work!! The wooden boat world needs more of you guys.
Tons of generosity around. Good for y’all.
One of your best videos, just showing what you do. More of this kind of videos. Keep up the good work, guys.
Awsome journey so far. Really look foreward to these videos
this whole project restores my faith in humanity!!!
Great video gentlemen. Really enjoy the camaraderie that you build with your helpers. Good times!
Awesome teamwork, creative solutions to difficult problems, and moving forward. Great work.
This must be a fantastic project to work on !!! Thanks for the videos 🐇😉👍👍🇬🇧
Excellent video as all of your videos are, mdost enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to the next one to watch your progress.
From Missouri
I am always surprised at the determination and progress you guys make between videos. Amazing. Inspirational.All the positive adjectives I can think of. You guys are awesome....
Thanks!
Happy New year from County Cork in Ireland. I'm loving everything about this build. Can't wait for the next video and especially the planking. Well done lads.
I know it's a lot of work and determination guys but you can already see her sleek classic lines. She will be the envy of many sailors. Not to mention the actual value on the market. Not the easy way to make a million dollars but I would venture to say that she would be worth around that fitted and finished with all modern navigation equipment and a very nice marine diesel and sails to fit many an occasion.
We will never sell her! Couldn't care less about the market value. haha
But she will indeed be a lovely vessel to sail and cruise in and that we care very much about! =)
Communication from the old French sailor: I love the RUclips translator: every time he hears "rabbet" he translates as "rabbit".
In French rabbit (lapin) is a word that brings bad luck when it is pronounced on a sailing boat!
We prefer to talk about an animal with long ears or the cousin of the hare 😆
The timelapses with real time sounds are very nice. Much nicer editing than leaving the sounds sped up too. I notice leo does it too even though channels like hand tool rescue have popularised sped up sounds. Nice.
OMG i HATE the sped up sound on those videos. It really ticks me off, such that i jump to watching anything else.
it's a lot easier to let the sound speed up as well, a lot more work to sync real time sound to sped up video.
Thank you. Good team work. Stay safe
Y'all have convinced me to get back into wood working. Hopefully I can find some time to volunteer when you get to the wiring and mechanical installations as that's my forte.
Good to see Alix's woodworking coming along!
I'm lovin this. All frames almost complete.
You guys are so tantalizingly close! Finding this channel was an amazing find. That there are people who make the sacrifices in order to live freely like this is incredibly inspiring.
Thanks!
We found we made more sacrifices working a conventional job 40 hours a week than we do working 80 hours a week on the project. We work a lot more but the work is for us, at our pace, on our timeline.... it's a completely different world and we would fight tooth and nail to avoid going back to a classic 9-5! We work twice as much but it feels like 1/2 the effort =)
@@AcornToArabella Sounds like a dream come true!
Great to hear CCR in the background, in my shed they are always playing
I love these ventures down the rabbet hole!
Phenomenal work!
Great progress. It’s nice to see all the help you’ve been getting. I thought of you guys last week as I was hiking the ridge of the Holyoke Range along the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail through Granby. Keep up the this pace and you’ll be conducting your sea trials next year. 👍👍
You were literally in our back yard! Had you dropped down between Long and Norwatuck you would have stumbled into the wood yard and then the boat yard =)
Watching over your shoulder while planning the work to cut in the rabbet, it's like: "There's a boat in that wood. I just need to cut her free"
Great comment.
Most appropriate. Building a boat as our friends are doing here is a Great Art form.
Start with wood; remove everything that isn't boat.
whittling a boat.
I appreciate how you take those setbacks with easy grace. Of course the cameras are running!!
It's a long and bumpy road, no point getting wound up about small setbacks.
wow gj u guys!! been watchin u for long now. You'we been an inspiration for me!
Seeing all the help you've had come in makes me wonder how much your build is impacting your local community, and how much it will. Gas stations, dinners, donut and coffee shops, hotels and grocery stores, they will all get a little uptick in revenue from the folks that come in to pitch in. It may seem inconsequential, but sometimes it doesn't take much to help a small mom & pop business stay afloat. And judging by how many have made it in so far, there will be many, many more come in to help out. So over the course of the build, your decision to build, will have quite an impact overall in your community I think.
I live in an area where they are drilling a lot of new wells for oil. Over the last 2 years, the little gas station my wife works at has seen a daily increase of 2 to 4k per day in business. Having a local build can have a huge effect.
We are sure it is in some small ways, probably nothing really quantifiable but in a small town like Granby every influx of cash certainly helps the local business!
Sometimes after the intro, I half expect one of those 30 to 45 second blurp how this show is brought to me, "by viewers like you." Great video.
It is brought to you by viewers like you! =) Without the help and support we would still be building Arabella we would just be working conventional jobs to do it and we would not be making the videos. The donations and support make making the videos possible!
I can't even imagine the immense satisfaction you will feel when you get to sail her!!!
Will be the proudest and happiest day of our lives so far!
i can't wait to see the arabella sail guys. love your channel
You got the best of CCR CD playing in the background. Nice.
That power planer is like a magic wand. Especially in the time lapse footage in earlier videos.
Thank you for publishing this. Your videos inspired me to solve my video problems and eliminate transcoding glitches and flashings. A new program had to be bought, but I Blu Ray discs are possible again. A boxed set of yours would be nice!
pretty nerve wracking stuff .. well done fellas.
Wonderful! Wonderful!.
Looks good guys.
I've done a thousand hours or so of boat building and this makes me want to help (esp. chisel work).:)
I have been told soaking the wood with water and fabric softener for a few days will greatly help in steam bending. Love your video's. Look forward to each one. Thanks
Thanks for the tip!
Always amazing what you achieve but now watching the teamwork as you work as one is eclipsing your boat building skills. When the country is so divided and conflicted yet you have overcome that to unify your work for common purpose. This is the true achievement.
Thanks! No matter how divided we are, our commonalities vastly outweigh our differences, some times it takes a little common interest to help realize that.
One of our favorite aspects of the project is all the different people who come and visit/help/volunteer and the way worlds collide in the Arabella Boat Yard. It's great having a young liberal pulling on a strap with an older conservative and them chatting over a beer at the end of the day and finding out that their differences are not all that great and learning why the other thinks the way they do. It's been amazing to be a little catalyst for that!
Thanks for the video.
Much progress being made
Great video
We were cutting that rabbet 6 weeks ago guys.. I was wondering if that footage was gonna make it to the channel.. :)
Great to see the tail end looking smooth too.. ;)
There are some really sexy lines starting to show themselves as you look along the hull. Plus, more Akiva.
Even the dog is getting exasperated with that wood splitting 15:45 :)
Once the planks are set, that whole "corner" will be very rigid. It's essentially like using braces on a joint, but with a solid structure.
That is one well behaved dog.
Sometimes, when the mood strikes him. haha
I find myself saying "the rabbit is a chisel and adze job", the power tools actually slow things up. Then I have to say go with what you know, the ends justify the means. Always an enjoyable watch, thanks for posting.
The forstner bit and power plane helped a lot on the stern rabbet. It's kind of a funny spot to swing the adz efficiently.
Watching y'all made me realize that what Captain Slocum accomplished was even more amazing.
He was a VERY understated man!
'The Boss' making himself heard! 👏
I really didn’t think Akiva existed for the longest time…
We need MOAR...
AKIVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You could have the crew working on the ship sign the broken timbers and maybe auction them off to support the channel😃
Great Guy's rootin for ya all !!!!
you a brave soul using the saw,,rock on
It was less nerve wracking than a lot of the stuff we have done! haha
The klaxon has exactly the same sound as my Mountain Rescue callout alarm. I sprang to attention the first three times I heard it. lol
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hi boat is going very well .and get more dun every time.good luck .
Nice.. failures are fun to watch and good to see as much as success.
I hate waiting for your videos lol. I'm in PA. One day I would love to come out to see this in person and give you some of my time helping you out. Once again you guys have made a great video!
We do an open house the first weekend in May every year, feel free to come on up for it!
Split wood is good as an added sacrificial layer for worm protection when planking ;)
Hey guys, love what ur doing and been watching from the beginning. I'm not to far from u guys and would love to come for my birthday in February to help out for a few days. I will leave my info on ur other site. Thanks
It's interesting, after watching some of the videos you're like "damn this boat is gonna take a while" - but in this one I feel like you got a shit-ton done in just one day.
Looking good!
That's how it goes. Some days we work like dogs and it looks like nothing got accomplished, other days it seems amazing how much we got done. Just depends on the specific work.
I know you probably got this covered, but as a friendly reminder, keep a close watch on any fire hazards in the proximity especially when using power tools in a dusty environment.
Even i would cry if something like that terrible were to happen. Keep a couple of extinguishers around spread out at different locations and some blankets and what not, better over-insure than sorry later.
Cheers and thank you for all your inspiration!
We do have extinquishers scattered around as well as some old blankets. We also only have one electric line going to the boathouse and everything gets unplugged when we are not in there working. Fire is hands down our biggest fear!
Lol akiva keeps howling in the background.😂
Thank YOU
You are welcome!
“Who builds their own boat?!?” 😂
I use the foghorn sound on my timer, too. Watching the video I was like, why is my timer going off? lol
If you need five more frames left you better mill at least seven. but since they are shorter a suitable piece of wood should be easier to come by.
Been watching for a few months now. An excellent demonstration of why everyone else uses FIBERGLASS nowadays. Note: fibreglass (UK)
Also pressure steaming the ribs at 3 P.S.I. would help. See EngelsCoachShop for a DIY.
Only people who don't want their boat to still be around in 100 years use fibreglass. ;-)
Yayyyyyyyy another video!!!
She’s beginning to look beautiful
That timer alarm is my ringtone,, had to stop watching to check my phone!! Lol
haha
I started wondering if laminated was the way to go for the last frames. Got my answer straight after the thought, lol. Happy New Year.
Just needed some better stock =)
You told me you broke it again. I Still wasn't ready to hear and see what happened to that poor tool lol. I like the new alarm, but am still a bit partial to the other one we used.
I did, then it got screwed together then bolted together. haha
“Hog” wild? 🤔 I see what you did there. 🤓
Aussie Aussie Aussie!
OY! OY! OY!
Awesome update, seen every video to date and I love it when you guys publish a new one. The audio did seem completely out of sync with the video for some reason
That would be cool. A little kit replica of Arabella to sell to people
Wow, putting in the frames seemed like a couple of guys were practicing mountaineering only almost upside down. Well done all you guys. It is a pleasure to be able to watch a group of people work together.
A crack epidemic invades Arabella and Akiva is called in to begin immediate addiction therapy
3:00 Nice bit of Credence Clearwater Revival and Run Through the Jungle ….
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The old saying if you put your mind to it you can do anything.
Amen!
How in the heyell did the Vikings do it?! Akiva is so beautiful. Super duper awesome content. Keep going guys. And keep that camera rolling.
It took way longer, and didn't look as good
Viking boats used clinker construction (the edges overlap). The frames were added after the planking was in place. Frames for clinker construction dont carry as much load as with carval planked boats (like Arabella), so they were much thinner and much less force required to bend them.
Man... I think I'll use fiberglass for my boat.
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This isn't just thinking work it is hard work. Manual labor. Don't push yourself so hard you do permanent damage. You need to be able to enjoy the fruit of your work. An injured back never heals. It always comes back to haunt you. It will cut short your sailing life for sure. Don't you hate being preached to. Sorry, I just want you to be able to enjoy Arabella for a long time. Maybe you can sail and teach your grandson or granddaughter. You see, creating this boat also creates immense responsibility. As always, have fun.
haha
Thanks for the concern and you are correct, a bad back can haunt on for life!
Great job guys love the teamwork, what make are the jackets and trousers you are wearing in this episode 😊
Seve. Alix and Casey were all wearing jackets made by Carhart, trousers varied.
I thought I saw Mike Rowe helping for a moment.
I wonder if an air chisel would work, the type used for metal, but with a wood chisel end
Quite possibly.
Would steaming them longer have prevented the splits?
i don't think so. If they split its because of the grain of wood itself. If they did not steam them long enough they would just straight crack instead of bending.
no
A fracture in the wood comes from a misalignment of the grain. So, regardless of what you do, if it goes, it goes. Best it does that here, now, than at sea. So from that perspective, it's best you don't over steam something (not that it would help, but in the lightest of situations).
Why not laminate the frames with thinner pieces? Or would the gluing stage take too much time?
I built a concrete boat with laminated wooden deck beams. The result was fine, but getting there was immensely tedious and lengthy. At a guess I'd say each took four times as long as cutting and steaming one of Arabella's frames. @@snaplash
You guys should film in black and white for while...This, so we can go back in time a century or so....Funny, with electric planners and such..
No need to film in black and white. The same effect is easily achieved in the editing process by applying a monochrome (or sepia tone) filter.
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