Boat Decking: Hidden Under the King Plank -Episode 226 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2022
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Our wooden boatbuilding project is all about boat decking this week! King planks and covering boards are almost their own boat system within a boat system, if you were to take the whole boat deck and break it down into its parts and purposes. These important boat decking components both cover potentially sensitive or, perhaps better said, structurally important areas where hardware will be installed, and where water intrusion could mean trouble for everything just underneath it.
On this classic wooden sailboat, it will be so much easier to bolt in the custom bronze toe rail (or bulwark) supports before we lay the deck planking, Steve gets to welding up the beautiful brackets that Evan from MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts made for us with his CNC waterjet cutter.
Cheers to Sam for coming to help here at Acorn to Arabella! We appreciate his talents, his expertise, and his good humor. We look forward to seeing him again this coming spring as we get closer to the water and when it'll be all hands on deck!
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Acorn to Arabella is a wooden boatbuilding 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 of this DIY wooden boat, 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 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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As a viewer from the beginning. I am always impressed as this boat gets built, how many variety of skills is necessary to make that a reality. What a story this adventure is writing.
Thank you, Sonya!
as marvellous is to see how A2A is making this dream real, i can´t stop thinking on how ancient boat builders built their wooden ships with only manual tools, and without books and internet to use as reference. just astonishing.
@@juanaq especially the first ones in a society who used their home building knowledge of timber framing and problem solved from there to make it water tight. Starting from small fishing boats and building ever larger to the mighty sea fairing vessels and tall ships of history with sails that could cover a grand cathedral. And timbers that could have burned for days without burning to the core. Yet, they managed to haul them, not only to the shipyards, but he's them to the shapes needed, notch them together, and get the finished vessels into the water without electric, deisel, or hydraulic powered lifts. Just more logs to roll them out on. Built on these logs, and making sure not to dislodge the chocks holding them in place the entire time the building was going on. Hoisting the ballast stones into the keel and everything. Using rope, block and tackle to lift the cannons onto the decks with muscle and strong backs.
Just imagine how much stronger we would be as a civilization if we still worked that way today.
Great episode! I hope RUclips is still around and I will get a notification for this channel 25 years from now of a video called "I forgot I hid this under the King Plank" and the mystery will be revealed!
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Sunny spring morning with my coffee and Arabella… thank you
In 25 years, speaking from my experience, you'll be surprised! Steve you have become a master bronze welder. Fantastic design.
Bob
I can understand the attraction to casting all the bronze, but I'm really digging your approach with the tabbed plates for the floors, knees, toe-rail brackets etc. It's an elegant solution that I'm sure would have been very popular with the 'traditional' boat builders, had water jet cutters etc been available back in the day :)
Cheers! Using what we have on hand, and also we’re lucky to have MS Fabrication within reach. Evan is awesome!
That black locust kingplank is a masterpiece!
I have been watching you all for so long now I feel as if I know you personally. This project has become my Saturday morning have my coffee and relax video. Thank you for taking us with you.
And thanks for coming along! That’s very kind, we’re glad to have you here.
i don’t get tired of watching the precision hand tool work, for one.
Thanks for saying so! Tune in tomorrow, we’ve got a bit more of that for sure.
I've had the privilege of woodworking with quality hand tools in the past and miss it terribly. As I approach my 80th birthday it's clear that I won't be doing that again. Thanks to your videos, I get to enjoy that past pleasure once again.
Thanks for watching, Robert!
BEN ... YOUR EDITING IS AWESOME ... You make the "entertainment" side of this channel so easy and enjoyable to watch. Love the easy transitions, subtle music and or minimal narration. It all makes a difference! Thanks. And to Steve and Crew... Keep Calm and Carry On!
Cheers, John!
@@AcornToArabella Can't make good edits without great footage!
The Brass work done by the fellow Evan looks amazing !! and it'll all look stunning when it's finally polished up and installed - Wow !!
Yes. That was an elegant solution!
Good morning Akiva and Crew 😸😺 The Sail Cargo Crew still loves Acorn to Arabella as they showed an A2A sticker in their
latest video yesterday (18:14) from when Steve and Alix went there to bring them a huge load of tools and equipment a couple
of years back . 👍👍👍😸😸😸
Yeah this was a nice detail!
Love the progress they make :)
That was nice to see, I almost missed it!
here's the proper link to the relevant time point in the SailCargo video:
ruclips.net/video/szWtD-TrdPo/видео.html
Wow that happened so quick I went back to yesterday's Sailing Cargo video Good eyes 👀 your post doesn't take you there only to A2A time stamp for today's video That's a Cool catch though 😎 👍
KP, I love your attitude towards the future. Very decisive he'll be happy when, in 25 years, he needs to work on the king plank. 🤗
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Friday evening on the east coast of Australia! Gday everyone!
G’day and happy Friday!
I really enjoyed the music and pacing to the edit on this one. Well done 👍
That shows real determination to put on a full welding suit and start welding on a 90 degree day . Steve you got what it takes keep up the good work the boat is a masterpiece of American know how .
Good Morning from Sandwich, MA
Happy Friday, Bud!
Hearing the saw turn on at 12:29 while Steve had it upside down made me jump! My heart rate calmed back down once the video switched to Steve cutting the board (not his fingers)
Love the bronze brackets!!
I do love Fridays! And today, entirely by chance, I'm wearing my bilge dragon shirt!
Edit: As an engineer who spent a couple of decades designing steel weldments for marine environments, I'd be inclined to add a light weld bead around the top of that joint on the brackets to keep water out. I know it's bronze, but still.
Huzzah! Thanks for your support!
I agree, but it would look shite, maybe he could just braze it along the top to fill it?
Really enjoyed the bonus video. Brought back a lot of memories. This project never ceases to amaze. It blows my mind that each individual piece of wood (of which there are thousands) is custom-fitted. What an amazing feat of dedication, perseverance and skills. Profound thanks to you and your crew.
Great episode and super excited about the installation of the king planks. Thanks for sharing!
Good morning and happy Friday from midcoast Maine! ☕
Happy Friday from great spruce head island in Penobscot Bay, where I’m anchored! 😁 -Anne
Congratulations on the King Plank!
Nice work everyone :) Great progress. Thanks!
Good solid woodworking content right there! Very enjoyable to watch!
Excellent stuff bro
Looking awesome Team. Another fabulous episode. Thank you for the wonderful entertainment...
Thanks!
I’ve been watching this channel for years now, and enjoying every minute! It is wonderful almost beyond words to see the full shape of it coming together plus the planks and the decking going on. I’ve done enough woodworking myself, and shop work, (my father made guitars, among other things) that I recognize good craftsmanship and yours is superb!👍💕🙏
Thank you so much for being on the journey with us, Curtis!
Happy new episode day. Best day of the week every week.. greetings from Norway..
Happy Friday to you!
So satisfying to see the king plank in and fastened
Also I keep getting blown away by how strong this bow assembly will be in the end. I mean there are so many interlocking pieces there, holy cow!
cute easter egg, loving the eye for detail and nicely fitting woodworking. glad my margens of my woodwork projects have a lot more tolerence. keep up the good work, hope to see is sail in person one day.
Thank you so much for another relaxing and calming video of boat building. Excellent everyone. Have a great weekend.
Cheers, Matt!
Solid as a Rock 👍 Nice one
Tony & Susan here, The custom brackets for the toe are fantastic. I cannot imagine a finer outcome. The fit and finish on the final product just perfect.
Hooray, Tony and Susan! Thank you!
Fantastic, relaxing, and in all other ways enjoyable to watch…again.
Hooray! Hope all’s well, Jeffrey!
A joy as always guys.
Thankyou.
Thank you!
Happy Friday from Plymouth UK
Happy happy Friday, Phil!
Did anyone else notice the middle screw being pushed out by the silicone as Steve drives the other screws in at 24:35? Made me smile!
Goop’s gonna goop! Hahahh And also, for anyone reading this someday-don’t use silicone on boats. It ain’t great. Not sandable, paintable, and harder to repair/replace. -Anne
@@AcornToArabella I would say never use silicone anywhere, anytime for the same reasons (except maybe a fish tank).
I’ve always felt that your series is a good example of the old adage that you can NEVER have too many clamps!
Hahaha TRUTH!
A joyful moment to finish my week! Great editing.
Thank you, Markus!
Well I have watched another Friday episode. The boat is really starting to come together. watching you guys do this work has been the closest thing I have ever done to understand everything it takes to build such a boat. See you next week a follower from Northeast Arkansas.
Thanks for watching, Jim! We’re glad you’re here!
I started watching from when the lead keel was poured. Then I went back and watched from when the trees were cut and the saw milling was going on. Then I caught up and had been watching since. I am amazed at how many details are still left to complete. The boat is much more complex then I imagined, even to the point that there are parts that will be hidden behind other parts, which are hidden from view as well. I mean, wow!
And I didn't see any of those parts in the plans when you guys started with the floor plans and whatnot. It's like you had to make up the rest as you went along. Amazing work, Team Acorn To Arabella!!
Thanks so much for being on the journey with us!
Great episode! Brass work looks pretty sweet! Stay safe and keep rolling Arabella team!! 👍👍👊👊
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@@AcornToArabella 👍👍
Wow, that is a lot of "toothpaste" squeeze out on those king planks. 😆😆😉
And yet another pair of signatures. If you get in the right position inside, those may be visable from inside the finished boat.
I hope the "open me" suprise has a nice note rolled up inside it, for a good memory and laugh, with a link to this video.
As always Steve and KP, great work!✔️ One
Of theses days, I plan to make a trip to visit.
When you do, here’s the info you need. www.acorntoarabella.com/visitor-welcome
Happy #a2acoffeeclub day! Another "time flies when you're having fun" episode with so many interesting new things. Amazing!
Cheers, Charles! Happy Friday!
That green welder arc and spatter footage was cool.
Well-designed, beautiful, and purposeful brass work from MS Fabrication. These are the types of accessories that pull it all together. Riveting them into place is so apropos.
Huzzah for Evan!
A very quick 26 minutes. Well done Ben.
Happy Friday, A2A crew!
That slo mo weld spatter was a pretty cool shot. Good job, Ben.
Happy Friday, Paul!
love those little ASMR woodworking tags after credits, Ben. Thanks
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Happy Friday Guys. Glad to see Steve taking a lil bit of time off, Hey everyone Don't forget to Like and subscribe !!!
Thanks so much and happy Friday, Aynsley!
that water jet work is exquisite.
Even is the best!
Very enjoyable
Cheers!
Well things are moving along nicely. Akiva looked a little bored there but still keeping an eye on things. I'm sure when it's in the 90's he is happier in the air-conditioning. Lots of new faces! We are planning on taking you kayaking tomorrow and I can't wait. Have a great and safe week!
Its so sad every time they show that poor neglected dog. Left alone in her little prison. Why have a dog when you spend zero time with him/her?
Well the title is Acorn to Arabella. It's a story about the building of a wooden boat. Not the Akiva show. The goal is to see all the details that go into building a boat from the tree felling to the milling to the building. Akiva gets all the attention he needs. He also happens to be a runner. He is not out in the pen 24/7. He is their mascot and buddy. They put snippets of Akiva in to show he is still keeping an eye on the build. Please don't assume he is mistreated or ignored. These guys are busy building a boat. Playtime comes after work.
Akiva’s pen keeps him safe. Siberian Laikas aren’t lap dogs. He’s bred to be up to a half mile away from Steve as he’s hunting, and will bolt through the neighborhood, subject to the violence of an errant “coyote sighting” or the front end of a car. He can dig as he pleases, has shade and rodents to chase, and can survey the neighborhood from his perch. We’ll have him back in the shop soon-we’re rearranging back to the setup where he’ll have a safe, fenced area again. Thanks for your care and concern! He is very loved.
I love the green glow when welding bronze.
It is soooo cool. TRULY! -Anne
That king plank really caps the structure. 👍
It’s a crucial component!
The closing credit for Steve each week is different, and hilarious. This week, "Not Kidding Around", as Steve drives a dozen brass screws with a brace and bit.
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Not only is it so cool to see a wooden boat come into existence, it's also the feeling of it being build with very high quality. I often have the notion while watching these videos that the next owner hauling this boat over will constantly speak out loud "man this boat was build well! This guy really knew what he was doing!" Of course I know nothing about boat building myself 🙂
Thanks for the kind words!
Interesting to see there are so many ways to build a boat. Leo did his deck planks, then covering boards, then king planks. Here you did covering boards, king planks, then I'm guessing deck planks last.
There ARE many approaches to building boats. Variations can be due to material availability, crew size, budget, preference… all kinds of reasons.
Evan rocks!) Modern legend!)
We’re so thankful to know him and support him!
That bronze toerail machining must have cost a fortune. It is beautiful!
Evan at MS Fabrication charges a fair rate for quick and precise work, and yeah it’s very beautiful! Tune in tomorrow for more on these as the welds and everything else get a good scrubbing and sanding.
Love the Easter Egg! I’ve done that with home improvement projects.
Nice!
I have been enjoying watching since the beginning and am amazed at the number of hours it is taking to build this boat. Makes one wonder how the old Vikings, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch Navies, etc. built so many ships to sail the seas and fight wars way back in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Much larger crews and a lack of workers rights. 😉
What a beautiful design you came up with for the toe-rail brackets. You went for the oval design as I suggested in ep 221 :-) I really like how the oval baseplate and mounting plates turned out. It fits the time period but with a modern construction. Just awesome. The Covering boards and King plank are looking really good as well. It´s going to be a truly beautiful and most importantly a very seaworthy boat. Cheers/ Jacob
🙌🏼happy Friday, Jacob!
I liked the visitors from Wisconsin.
Everyone knows someone from Wisconsin!
So happy to see that brace taking priority over the Yankee screwdriver.😎
They’re both exquisite to use!
Don't forget to chamfer the holes for your lashing on the toe rail brackets. Maybe even chamfer the exposed edges of the entire bracket. Lots of sharp edges there. They look like good toe slicers.
Yup, lots more finish work to do there.
As a fellow New Englander......."You can take the person out of Maine.....but not for long!" Good Luck Sam! DD
Well young Stephen I wish you all the health in the world to be the one who opens your wee time capsule/ easter egg, I probably won't be here by that point but I can only imagine the adventures that Arabella has been on by then.
All the very best Scott
Thanks for being on the journey with us, Scott!
13.00
No better way to saw/cut👍👏
I have all of my metalworking hacksaw’s blades set to cut pulling towards me, and no more skew cuts now, phew‼️😅
24.27
Those chest braces really make those screwing jobs so easy👍👏
I have my Father’s one that he used early 50s and no idea how old it is, whether new or second hand.
Awesome
Been watching since the pouring of the lead ballast.
It may be the powers of crowds . . . or Steve MIGHT be a Vulcan master of three dimensional chess. I'm constantly amazed at his planning and foresight. Passion, baby, passion.
I wish I had that level of confidence with a rip saw :)
Nice show.. thanks..
And thanks for being here, Paul!
Sometimes I wonder what happened to Alex, and how is he doing. Love the bronze or brass for the kick plate very well made. I also wonder where my name went on Arabella, someone had to sign for me. Starting to plank the deck is awesome.
Not the same since Alex left. Just different somehow
I hope when the ship is finally launched that Alex can be there - that would put a great touch to the series.
I used to feel the same, but not anymore.
Tab and slot, along with scalable precision cutting systems, has changed them fabrication processes of many industries. It is a natural progression from various CAD platforms. The technology is now available to smaller manufacturers, industrial, commercial, agricultural and marine builders, as well as hobbyists.
Those brackets are so cool. Just right for the project. To me it's industrial art deco. (;
I am also enjoying the progression of your presentation styles. This one has a nice, unexplained, interlude just past halfway that was nice. Just the visual of work being done. That was well placed, nice editing.
Progress continues...keep pushing. You're getting closer to the completion of an epic handmade work of working marine art.
Thanks for this thoughtful note, Jeff!
Thank you.....👍👍👍
Thank YOU!
Another awesome video.
Those bronze brackets are very cool. I would, however, be worried that water would seep into the slots and never have a chance to dry thus accelerating corrosion. May be worth welding around the perimeter just to seal them
Corrosion, or in the case of bronze patina, is actually very protective to the metal. We don’t intend to shine everything, but rather let them have their patina.
Wow! Great job, great video,.
Just a random thought that passed thru my mind as I watched you screw the King Plank in place. "That would be a very tough nut to crack." 🙋♂️
T’would!
Bronze brackets...what an imaginative design, and beautifully constructed. Respect from an old school engineer.
Cheers, Collin!
mycket bra worksman/womenship..your team is amazing. Kaylin P. - special thumbs up; for your inspiring works....
greetz from sweden. #inthewild
Tack!
You should maybe do a pull test on one of those stanchions. Sometimes a tab-in-hole weld from the back side is not as strong as one might think... plus water can get in and sit in the joint on top.
Someone did a calculation for us. With the thickness and angles known, it’s assumed that the strength is at least a couple thousand pounds. We don’t have a machine to measure or apply that force, and so here we’ve simply overbuilt them for their purpose as we have many things on Arabella.
@@AcornToArabella P.S., fantastic stuff, can't wait to see you launching!!
Cheers!
taking shape
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KP is a stellar person and simply a Bad Ass. I’m super impressed with her skill Level.
Steve is fortunate to Have her on the Team. 👍
One tip I would love to share with you all. This is coming from someone who worked as a lead mechanic on a 757 heavy check and I managed a group of sheet-metal mechanics. We used 1/8 thick plexiglass panels to trace out shapes. That product, although petroleum based, is probably more expensive then cardboard but a heck of lot easier when tracing out contours or shapes.
I bet your tolerances for sheet metal, and the cost of it, definitely warrant expensive and more accurate templating material! Thanks for sharing this tip!
Hi Steve
I really like the tabbed details of the brackets. But you might want to check with an engineer regarding the strength of those welds. Although you put quite a bit of weld metal into those rectangular "plugs" the strength of those joints is equal to the shear area (depth of the "plug" times the perimeter of the tenon multiplied by the shear strength of the annealed metal which might be somewhere about 7,000 psi. I'm guessing that the weld depth of the large plugs was about 1/8 inch and the tab was maybe 1/2 inch by 2 inches. That means about 5/8 square inch. Do the math and you get about a two ton breaking strength. Are you certain that's enough? A small fillet weld tig welded on the exposed side will likely double the strength and get rid of the exposed crevice which will disguise any deficiency of those joints. You won't see any problem until the failure occurs.
Just my $.02. But I did build submarines. See you when you get to Mystic. I live up the street from where Bob stored his boat.
Two tons? Every few feet from one another? Yes. That’ll be great. Thanks for the info!
I've heard multiple names for the brass fitting method. Tab and keyway or broached hole and key. Really depends on the method of creating the hole. A reamer is used for finishing a round hole and a broach is used for a square hole in metal working. With the tolerance level of plasma or water tables, it probably wasn't finished out with a broach. Cool stuff either way. I agree about sealing that top seam though for moisture.
Happy Friday. Looks like someone put too much vanilla icing under the king plank when Steve was screwing it down. Another amazing Friday. Thanks gang, keep up the good work
DELICIOUS BOAT ICING!
Happy Friday! 🎉
Oh boy, it's Friday again 🎉
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Dear. Anne and Steve,
Happy Friday first of all. As always we love to see the kind of craftsmanship involved by building Arabella in special for the way of dealing with every detail and with a lot of love for wood. It’s also very nice to how Arabella slowly and step by step is being completed. We wish you together with your team lots of success with the build of this beautiful boat and wish you as well as your both complete families all the happiness of the world plus we send you ❤️ from the Netherlands.
Best regards,
Willeke and Dick de Graaff
Thank you, Willeke and Dick! Happy Friday!
Good Morning y'all
Happy Friday, Mark!
My soul can never rest now not knowing what was in the "open me" package, LOL.
Actually not joking. :)
Stay tuned… FOR TWENTY YEARS! 😉 thanks for watching!
@@AcornToArabella You know I will, LOL. ;)
Looking great - the brass is going to be a nice accent, although seems like you'd reduce friction by rounding over the hole for shackles/lashings - otherwise looks like a good spot to shear off shackles or cut lashings.
They’re bronze, by the bye, and we’re not done with the finish work on them. More on that soon, thanks for the kind words!
It took me two weeks but I have finally caught up. it has been an amazing progress till now. You al did amazing work. If al goes to plan I will be there for the launch next year all the way from the Netherlands.
Are there any other people from Europe planning to go to the launch?
We’re pretty sure there are! We hope to see you there! Thanks so much for watching!
Are you planning to knock down the edges on those bronze brackets? Those look like they'd be savage on your toes if you ever needed to brace underway. Awesome video as always, thanks for making my Friday morning 🙂
There’s more work to do on them, yes.
beautiful display of craftmanship and good taste, in boatbuilding and videography. a pleasure to watch, as every friday, thank you very much.
curious question: why do you sometimes use an electric screwdriver and other times a manual one?
Manual when slow is fast enough and bronze screws will want to be removed but used again way down the line for maintenance.
Wow! At this point you really need to be a Jack Of all trades.
Every boatbuilder is. In bigger yards there’s a tad of specialization, but otherwise… gotta have a lot of talents!