The Pleasures of Square Carpentry - Episode 176 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2021
- Buttoning up the forward bulkhead with coats of sealer and varnish makes way for some interior joinery in the forepeak that Steve has plenty of experience producing. Tools that have long sat dormant in the shop are whizzed back into life to create square mortise and tenon joints.
We were hoping that, for the most part, Victoria's interior would fit well into analog places in Arabella, but of course, with the differences in the sizes of the hulls, there were bound to be places where we'd have to put together some amalgamations of new and old material to make it all happen. Here's an instance where more oak comes into play with reclaimed mahogany.
More mockups, more testing, more experimenting, more thinking about the future. Thanks for watching.
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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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"I have to admit, this is one of the times it got awesomer."
He’s not wrong.
This may be one of my favorite comments ever.
I agree. That’s high praise coming from an 11? year old kid.
Yes I acree with the nabour kid to👍
Yep, this cute lil' boy is right. Cannot argue with that ! 😍
This is where a good CAD programme will come in handy!
I am in awe of how easily you handle your woodworking in oak. I need to rewatch your video on sharpening chisels...
Caroline, it sure is wonderful having you back.
Varnishing outdoors with no insects, dust, leaves, hair, rain - how brave (and lucky). It is very relaxing to watch though.
Love his comment , from the young man “so it is amazingness” adventures on open sea’s with Arabella
Those bulkhead panels are sick Steve...well done!😊
Very nice workmanship on your joints. My favorite part of carpentry.
An old boss of mine who used to refurbish Diesel locomotives used to hand-paint them, he would never leave a wet edge. Sometimes that would involve painting an area 8' high by 40' long! He mixed all his own paint. All we had to do was keep him supplied with cans of *oke, sometimes tea, and company. If he ever got it wrong (rare) we started again! A lot of his hand-painted jobs are still around on RUclips.
The amazingness is awesomer.
Steve, I make cabinets and furniture for a living and do mortise and tenon joinery in some cases all day long. Seems to be like A) you're doing it the hard way and B) the pattern of the tenons and mortises is not like anything I've seen before. I do get the idea of an unglued joint to allow the wood to move, but the typical tenon length is 5 times the thickness of the tenon. Your tenon thickness looks to be 1/3 of the stock thickness which is fine, though with machine cut mortises 1/2 thickness has become the norm. Shoulders are generally the same as the tenon thickness. Another thought is that when I'm production building face frames I've changed over to using floating tenons with a Festool Domino. A LOT quicker than hand cutting mortises and tenons. Also, another option for mortises is using a router and an edge guide.
Yep. Another piece of weird, non-standard woodworking from this channel. It's almost as though they are trying to invent woodworking from scratch, unaware of what people have been doing for centuries.
I've been watching since pretty much day #1. I am so glad to see you getting to fit and finish.
I keep thinking about my old woodshop teacher. His name is Peter Bailey (if you know your tools....YES those Bailey's) and he studied at a prestigious English tech school, apprenticed under his Uncle (the woodworker for the Queen), and then at the age of 19 built his own 28' ketch and sailed it solo to Tonga.
Lived and worked repairing boats in the south pacific for many years...then sailed his boat up to the pacific northwest and retired from the seas to a land post as a woodwork teacher. Sadly, years of working with various chemical before the advent of breathing apparatus has left him blind as a bat.
He'd probably love your channel.....although being a feasty old Yorkshireman he'd probably complain about the use of power tools and the fact that your only accurate within a 16th....where as he'd be accurate within 2/10's of a knats fart. LOL
Ha! Thanks for sharing this story! And thanks for watching.
Great story thanks. Poor guy how frustrating to be blind
Beautiful story!
Hi guys ..I am a woodworking machinist from Yorkshire and have watched the build from the pouring of the lead ..I've learnt quite a few tips from you guys and it's nice to see people using waney edged timber properly dried ...I am in awe of your attention to detail ...its an art ...keep it up ..can't wait for the launch
Thanks for watching Nigel! Glad you’re enjoying.
Bonjour Steve,
Your ancestry is in the farm and it’s land. You are a first class carpenter who tells us how pleasurable it is to work on regular flat surfaces.
Life at sea is so very different from any thing regular and flat. In his short volume “Atlantic Britain” Adam Nicholson writes about his first boat
and his first voyage. I recommend that you read it and the perfection of beautiful carpentry will be put in perspective. Your boat is going to be perfect but once afloat every thing changes, and I mean everything. To be master of your own ship is the very opposite of farming. Good luck..
Slowly making my way through all the episodes. It's interesting to see the completely different approaches to the interior between this and Tally Ho.
Welcome! Glad you’re here! Waaaaaaay different boats. They’re both wooden hulls and that’s about where the similarity ends.
Very very good job !! Bravo ...
Thanks for posting and sharing. Really interesting to see how the interior is coming along.
“In terms of the amazingness, yes”
Beautiful !!!
Awsomer. Is my new word for the day
Just a quick safety comment. You exponentially increase the possibility of a kick back on a table saw when you use a fence in combination with the miter gauge. That is the deepest tenon cut where you are registering on the fence and pushing with it tight against the miter gauge is a recipe for potential disaster. If the board cocks or twists even a tiny bit its coming back at you like a rocket. Be careful.
The danger comes when the workpiece is cut all the way through. I say that when the depth of cut is only partially through, the risk of kickback is negligible.
Paul raises a good point and so does Larry. Stay safe out there!
i agree with the neighbor kids: it looks like it always does... in terms of the amazingness. he is not wrong - this project has been 10/10 in amazingness every single update.
Wow, Thomas. Thanks so much.
There's something about watching someone who is casually competent that is so soothing.
Agree with Robin's call on the wood choice. It will all come together with the two woods matching the panels.
Awesomeness acheived...
and there is also some wisedom by letting your significant other choose the interior. Ask any man around the globe...
I don't have an pro opinion about expansion and contraction on boats, but in Idaho (not a ton of humidity or seasonal fluctuation, but lots of heat variability) on siding that is engineered to resisting expand/contact, we still leave a 3/8" gap between butt ends of lap boards to compensate and not buckle. The length of material also contributes to how much it will move as you have already discussed with planking. In finish work, a reveal that is larger will look excellent still as long as it is uniform. I like your idea of leaving a gap, and think that you won't regret making it bigger than you showed it, especially with the boat being subjected to extremes.
Steve, your young neighbors look tells everything. He is already dreaming of the boat he will build because he watched you dedicate yourself to Arabella. Amazing to see how you inspired him already! I know you inspire me to dream, and to one day attempt my own build!
Great stuff
Great woodworking and video as always, The little grom ... "I'll have to admit this is one of the times (I visited the boat) it got awesomer...." epic compliment. Thanks for sharing!
We were tickled pink.
This is how carpenters do woodworking.
Yeah, 1/4" I do, 1/8" I have seen, but what the heck is a 1/32"?
Nice work folks, thanks again.
I am in love with that pentel pencil...
Yeah it’s a good one!
Hi Annie , It was so nice to meet you at the boat show today . Hopefully we will see you in the videos someday . Thanks for all of the info . Gary
Thanks for checking in, Gary! So glad to meet and I hope you had a great time at the boat show.
Your working late ⏰
Nice to watch your thought process, good work!
Thank you for making my Friday afternoon. That panel and the oak framing around the mahogany doors is going to look amazing especially as it ages. The thickness of the oak framing pretty much guarantees the bunk will be well supported. Take care, have a good weekend.
That's a lovely bulkhead. Love seeing the interior take shape, it must be supremely satisfying to execute on. :D
One thing you might consider is tapering the mast from the deck to the foot. I had a 54 foot round mast on my boat that had this taper. The mast was 10 inches at the deck and 4 inches at the foot. The mast from the deck to the step was a little over 6 feet. Came in right in the middle of the galley and had to go around it to get to the bow all the time. The taper made this so much easier a maneuver.
Well done Stephen . A lovely video.
I can't wait to see the mahogany doors stripped and sanded down ready for that fantastic varnish job from Carolyn. It will look like a brand new vessel though we know it has many Victoria parts in her. I can see it in that boys eyes, he was imagining something pretty deeply. I'm glad you let the little guys in once in a while to see how things are coming together. A first hand look at something being built from the ground up is a luxury few get. We are lucky you go through the trouble of documenting this build weekly so the rest of us poor dogs can watch from afar. Thank you as always, happy Friday guys!
It's great to find joy in simple things, like square carpentry.
Another enjoyable video thanks!
Absolutely beautiful work! I have to admit that I am super impressed that such a young man even knows what a mortise and tenon is let alone have the skill to execute them so accurately. AWESOME!
Mortise and tenon joinery is the basis of woodworking, who wouldn't know what that is?
Gorgeous work!
Just food for thought Steve.. many nights we lay on anchor up to 50 miles of the west coast of Vancouver Island on what's called "The big Bank" in rather inclement weather. Sometimes it was so rough that I was glad my upper bunk was of a height that while laying on my back I could draw my knees up to jam against the deck beams to keep from bouncing off the bunk as we dropped off the top of the waves. I actually could sleep like that which was a good thing because 4:30 am came early and the trolling lines had to be in the water by 5 am.
It's an option, as are lee cloths. It's good to have a few options for those times. Some people think that berths are built small because "people were smaller"... not so!
The amazingness IS pretty good.
Lovely
Dang, you’re not playing around with the thickness of the materials you’re using, panels made out of like 3-4 cm thick slabs of oak.. this boat will surely survive any form of apocalypse 😂
Except of course, you know, the one that is actually coming, which renders all our pleasures a form of whistling in the dark.
The frames look far too thick and heavy. Looks at odds with the cabinet doors.
It’s the thickness of Victoria’s doors that are setting the standard. And yes they’re ridiculously chunky - as per circa 1900’s way of building boats. It will add a lot of deadweight throughout the boat in my opinion - it’s solid oak - half that thickness would still be solid! But I guess this boats never going to be a lightweight so perhaps it makes relatively little difference anyway.
Looks like it always is?
Kid: "In terms of the amazingness - Yeah" :D
weekend! Also here in Northern Germany, Best wishes to the hole Crew.
Scheens Wochenend aufi in den Norden!
"I have to admit. This is one of those times it got awesomer".
Has bulkhead. Now a boat.
Beautiful job all round. Thank you
Amazingness and amazinger!
Good old carpentry is so watchable Well done great job
The wood looks like it's been dipped in honey. Gorgeous !
2:30 I was just about to say that it looks great, I cant believe there are no bugs.... oh.. there it is.
Might have to watch it again in the morning sober
🍻
I have watched hours and hours of how to make wood tenons, it looks so intimidating, I've decided I can't do it. After watching your 20-minute video, you have answered so many questions. Thank you for reminding me that I can!
Sweet! Just go for it!
Steve, the paroled Mason, going straight and level on the square. Nice work Boet.
Excellent stuff bro
Yes it is pretty amazing what you are accomplishing.
New additions to my lexicon “amazingness” and “awesomer”, thank you young man.
👍🤣🤣🤣 Kids never stop to impress this old man. So fresh, so inventive.
Love these videos, love watching the wood working skills.
Coming on nicely Steve 👏👏👏👍🇬🇧
Awesome work, as always. I now have to go out to my garage / workshop to hug my dado set. 🤓
NICE
Awesome 👍👍
this was a great episode, even more awesomer
:D
Friday night just got home from the pub, fav vid on have to watch to watch half cut....... happy fridaaayyyys
4 years ago I watched a video of your channel, I remember one of you guys cutting a colossal piece of wood, I loved it but I was deployed soon after and forgot the name of the channel. For the past 3 years or so every now and then I would try to find it, I knew it sounded a bit like Bridge to Terrabithia or something like that, probably because I watched the movie around the time I discovered your channel. Anyway, I found it again after so long (so happy!!!) and I can't wait to check on your progress. Oh and I clicked on subscribe this time...
Phew, good! Glad you subscribed and glad you're here. Thanks! Also: we have a handy newsletter with lots of links to other things we enjoy that are related. They come sooner and more reliably than RUclips notifications. See ya Friday!
Have to admit to a level of envy for the tools in your workshop, before I have to go down to my workshop today to repair my cheap crappy bench saw before I can carry on making the seats for my little project boat.
Nice work
In terms of amazingness, it just got awesomer.
Well, what'cha gonna add to that assessment .....? A nod? Two nods?
It's been a long time since you've come to this point. Cabinet & furniture making. Looking awesome.
Didn't you mean "Awesomer"?
The bulkhead looks amazing!
Fun transition. Very nice!
The bulkhead looks amazing
Dear Arabellas Acorns.
👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always (video and work). Maaan, that's absolutely impressive! You do mortise and tenon joinery so easy as if it was tongue and groove. Congrats for having all those skills.
As always: Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
That ray fleck is sick.Well done.
Awesomer and awesomer as it goes.
A new t-shirt: "It keeps getting awesomer!!" Drawing of the interior or something like.. well.. awesomer !👍
Nice work - wood, paint/varnish gentle-lady / gentleman!
Nice complement from the superior 😁
Good Morning all looks Great 👍
Always add a few nails or brads thru the mortise and tenon on of course the back side, very normal, are available in stainless. The term is always "glue and screw". Have the attachment for a drill press that I haven't used much, bought a really nice English machine. Will see about sending it to you, may need a new bit, had used it for some real weird on the job railings. Looks like you will be doing many of these down the road.
Stephen, I would recommend having a splint-boot onboard just in case you or a passenger kick the foremast with your shin in your sleep. You'd want to have something handy just in case so that, even though you have a broken lower leg, you can still get around the boat without making the injury worse. You may think this suggestion is in humor but it is in all seriousness.
I have a new one I've just relinquished if its needed i will send!
Yeah, they can keep it in the sick bay!
That is actually the Main Mast.
@@webbtrekker534 My mistake. Thanks for the correction, @Webb Trekker!
There are many of us thinking and praying for Alix and his family. Without sticking my (our) nose "where it ain't wanted don't be-long (I think that how my Grandpa put it!), is there any word on how things are going over thataway? It will be nice to have Alix back where he belongs, but he does have his priorities right. Steve has a great team to count on, and progress is being made. It's fun to watch as different pieces move around (that goes for people AND materials), the fit seems to just get better and better. Except for one part... I have not seen the four-legged mascot in several episodes. Did Akiva go on strike cuz of a biscuit shortage or something?! I miss Waggy-Tail!
OK, breaktime is over, resume the beatings...
Thank you very much for your thoughts and for asking after Alix. He's doing well and has done (continues to do!) amazing things for his father. Akiva's around and about. We really do need to get more Akiva time in these for sure. He's awfully hot in the sun and it's too hot in the boathouse for him, which is the real reason he's not just trotting around it the background. It doesn't take much for a dog like him to get extremely overheated.
@@AcornToArabella And thank you for the quick response. It makes my day to know Alix and his family are doing well. Our families are so vital to us but it's so easy to get lost in day-to-day living that we forget those we belong with. So happy to hear that.
And living in Fresno CA, well let's say I know what you mean about heat! We came close to breaking an all-time record of the most days over 100*. All too often we sit inside our A/C houses sipping a cold soda watching TV and forget our 4-legged friends outside who really suffer in that heat. Glad to know Akiva is doing well. One thing I've had great success with (even the cat!) is shaving their belly area, which really helps cool them down.
Glad to know that despite the world's "troubled waters", your ship is sailing on. Fair Winds, friends!
That kid : " Amazingness !" / Nailed it ;-) ;-) ;-)
Yes, they were tremendous comments! Perfect!
Best birthday gift ever
Whoa ho! Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday !
@@AcornToArabella thx you very much I love your content
Happy birthday 🎉🎈
Hey Steve, I know you still have a lot of boat left to build, and then tender to build, but if you have any of that beautiful wood left at the end, you should make a deal with a luthier, give them the rest, with the promise they build you a guitar. Then either auction it off for money for your travels, or keep it and learn to play on those rainy nights at anchor!
What an idea! Wouldn’t that be nice to have on the boat for sun downers! (Or for a cruising fund when it sells!) I really think he will end up keeping or using every piece himself though.
Wise words young man.
I am so glad she saw that bug!
I was just about to try to brush it off my monitor.
You should reach out and see if Paul Sellers would make a small contribution to your boat (maybe an inlay or something for a desk or drawer - small but beautiful). Given his reputation in the world of fine woodworking, it would be a fun addition to the many elements of craftmanship already present on your boat.
Aw yeah, gals and dudes, it's cabinetry time!
...I think I need to start woodworking.
I’m kind of hoping you use a clear finish on the oak because the contrast is beautiful against the dark door. Also, it acts as a nice frame highlighting the antique door. It would also bring more light to the cabin which is missing on many boats.
I bought a set of Stanley Bailey wood chisels very sharp and handy.
Yup,….this IS one of the times it got awesomer. Not another word need be said.
I am pleasantly surprised to find that a company like TotalBoat is developing what seem to be marvelous new products for marine brightwork-- and that there is enough marine brightwork out there to support the company.
Just have to comment, been watching you since you first started and I have to say it’s been a pleasure to watch all your vlogs. I look forward to your vlogs every Friday! Maybe when your finished and launched you make a trip to Cape Cod and I will be able to see Aribella sail🙂
Thanks so much, James!
Just returned from our annual week on Cape Cod. One of God's special places!
Hmmm… ‘X…..X…..X’ and, ‘X’ (2:42)
Sorry, I could not resist, of course it is good advice!
Missed you at the boat show
Oh shoot. Hope you enjoyed it, glad you got to go!
Great work. I look forward to your video every week. Could you refer to the plans every once in a while? I would have liked to see how the designer had intended the layout to look as compared to the decisions you are making for the interior.
I agree, it did got awesomer!