Best thing about this channel is the fearless way that Steve re-invents time-tested (but not quite perfect) boatbuilding techniques. Deck fairing, welded bronze floors, home-made “plywood”, heated gluing boxes, etc, etc. A whole heck of a lot of modern innovation in a “traditional” boat.
Which, and I hope this is eloquent, because it’s one of my favorite parts of wooden boat building: innovation IS the tradition. Best exemplified by vernacular workboats that match the exact conditions in which waterfolk need to work, and by the composite wood boats that are some of the fastest, sleekest, most modern things on the water. I could wax lyrical about it a long while. -Anne
In the opening moments, KP uttered my life motto. “If it does work, it’s going to be awesome. If it doesn’t work, it’ll cost us a little time, and then we’ll know.”
This video was amazing to me!!! You put the cloths over the house top and OMG you were standing inside the house!!! The first time it was a real feel of the inside of Arabella!!! She is beginning to take a life and become your boat (kingdom!!!). How amazing!!!! You didn’t show it but I can’t believe for a minute that you guys didn’t say WOW!!!! This is Arabella!!!!
Dear Arabellas Acorns. 👍👌👏 Extremely well done again and as always (video and work). Ingenious faring jig by the way! Congrats! Congrats also for being such a good team. Because I'm 190 cm (6ft3"?) tall, I simply hate not to have enough room hight respectively head space. Please kindly allow me some suggestions: I guess that you will have guests often while sailing, so please consider that mankind has and is becoming taller steadily. ;-) And because Arabella should last at least hundred years, please consider the height of the deckhouse very well (please don't build the boat only fitting for yourself). And please, please don't take this as criticism, it's definitely not meant to be. 💚 As always: Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Steve watching you and KP work together on the fairing jig was a joy , I'm just standered joiner in the UK ,but watching this boat build is joy considering wot your going for. Al strength to you all .....stu from UK
I found this channel during the pandemic lockdown and I’ve been a fan ever since ! Outstanding craftsmanship! Thank you for chronicling you’re adventure I can’t wait to see her sails up & making way …
I like the way KP works with Stephen. She has a lot of knowledge but is very good at putting good ideas over in manageable pieces. Stephen is also good to be able to take the best of all ideas and fit them into his future life/home. I like to see how these ideas are discussed and eventually are implemented. Also it is so good to see what I would call small-town USA and see how helpful and pleasant people really are as compared with the image portrayed of Americans in many films. It is quite heartening to see this silent majority at work
KP is doing great, they have an awesome dynamic with Steve and it's great to see their contributions. Well done, and I can't wait to see whatever comes next!
Absolutely loving it! And I’d never have thought that this kind of inventions were still possible - but hey, wooden boats are just coming back … guess the craft was dormant for a while and modern tricks kind of passed the trade. If there are more folks who think like Steve, who knows to what hights wooden boat building will come back to!
They’ve always been here! Not so much dormant as moving from conventional and common to just another material boats are made of. Some of the most innovative boat building methods right now are being developed with wood. No kiddin’. And most of these folks are so busy building that they can’t make videos, but they’re out there. Trailblazing. -Anne
It's nice to hear you talk through the next step of preparing the deck & house roof I can see what you are doing and it sound great. Thanks Mark Dutka Oakville Ontario Canada.
Great job you two. I've had my coffee with A2A this morning so I'm off to a great start. My mother, who's in a nursing home now, is going to see Willie Nelson tonight! (She loves to cry to his music) My late brother's best friend is taking her (she has a crush on him too!) so it's going to be a great night for her! So, we're all excited for her. The weather is fine, Willie is in town and all is well. Oh yeah, I kind of missed the music. I don't mind it without it but I think it adds something to your videos. I'm sure you'll get all kinds of opinions about it. Lol. Tell KP she's doing a great job and I think we all appreciate what she brings to the project. Y'all (Alabama) take care and see you next week!! Tell Grandma and Grandpa hello!!
Hey Patty! Can't wait to hear what a nice time your mom has at that concert tonight. What excitement. So sweet, "she loves to cry to his music." Aww. How lovely. Yeah, we love Ben's music, too! And of course I'll pass your kind words on to KP. Happy Friday, Patty! -Anne
I wish I could go to the open house, but job requirements and living on the opposite side of the country in Hawaii significantly complicated everything. So I support Arabella through my merch and memorabilia purchases. She's really taking shape from when I started following her build when she was just a drawing and some guide frames. Keep it up Steve, I'll support the project as I can, who knows you might just decide to visit the port in Honolulu, you know as a long-distance shakedown cruise... lol If you do get out this way I'd be glad to meet up and take you around town. ;-)
I took apart a inoperable 150 yo skeleton key lock and was amazed at how intact and beautifully designed it was. The spring steel that operated both the latch and door knob lock was still strong. All it needed was a cleaning and minor adjusting and was back in business.
It's nice to see two heads working together & both questioning each others thought process to come to a good & practical solution then move forward with a better understanding. & I do believe kP would not hesitate to gently voice a different opinion if it seemed that things were looking like taking a wrong tack & I think the same with Steve & that is how thing's get done & done right 😁👍.
Glad you enjoyed that! I’m enjoying, rather than a flat explanation, seeing a discussion and the arrival to a solution or decision instead. Hope it’s illuminating for all! -Anne
It's only a bad idea if it doesn't work. So you may need to sharpen the Plane more often. But the hard labor avoided is more than worth it. Pretty brilliant idea. I think Lou would agree.
I was a cruiser with my family on a 40 foot sailboat when I was a kid. I like the high house top. That jerry can storage on deck looks really nice to me. I don't think losing a bit of sail is really going to make much difference in how fast your boat is.
@@AcornToArabella we sailed from olympia washington to as far south as manzanillo mexico and then to Hawaii and back to Washington. I was 12 and my sister was 15. The trip took almost 2 years.
I ordered my E-ZE Pass today and am doing the 7.5 hour road trip from Canada. The last time I did a 7 hour trip was 1973. I had my exhaust fixed on Wednesday just have one more job to get done on the car by the Lexus dealership. Then book a room and I am sorted. Very exciting.
I saw your teaser of the "deckbeam fairing flapdisk jig" on the 'gram - and while I couldn't work out what it was for, I thought it had a feel of the contraption for cutting bevels on the planking. Good to see it working out for you - while there's centuries of boatbuilding tradition, I guess there's also plenty of room for some innovation in the right place. And always some dust & noise.
Ok, your deck fairing idea is great, save for one detail. One should never use a “grit based” stock removal tool (sandpaper), and then follow it up with tool steel. The grit becomes impregnated in the wood, and will dull your steel extremely quickly.
remember you will be cruiser not a racer - comfort is really important if you are spending a lot of time on the boat - you will use your tender a lot so make it easy to use - we all like the traditional lines of the old boats but they have to be practical
Totally, great points. For the most part, stowing on deck is for offshore only. We'll be towing it an awful lot, which is simple enough. Thanks for watching!
@@AcornToArabella Stephen, maybe it would help the process more to make a mockup of tender to rest on the current house profile and some string to represent bottom of boom ? Just a few segments like the keel cross section in profile from to bow/stern and some bent crossbeams to staple cloth or cardboard onto for visualization ( like an old kite's construction ) ? That will likely allow you to balance these variables. KP's point about handrails made me rethink their utility and when they are utilized... maybe they can be much taller if you made them stowable ? I'm thinking just make them so they can rotate down below flush with roof edge so they aren't impeding tender on/off but can be tall enough to raise in 1 or more latching increments to a really useful height ? They would also serve to help contain tender sliding off the sides when raised above flush. The handrails could also be simply a rope or cable from fore to aft instead of a solid wood rail and still be appropriate looking, right ?
agree spent time in boats with cramped head room and it gets old really quick, atkins boom gooseneck seems very low going up wont hurt too much.he was designing a gentlemans yacht not a live on long term cruiser
@@AcornToArabella I was looking at the jerry cans on the sides of your house, and I thought, "Those will block the windows (portals)!" I'm sure you'll come up with a plan...
Hry Steve, have you given any thought to using Rotopax type fuel containers. The mountings are incredibly secure and much easier than lashing those typenof containers to the deck. Not to mention the rotormolded containers are very durable.
We’re here every week, Ken, and we’re glad you’ve stopped by! Does it look way different than last time you watched or what? Launching in 2023, by the way!
@@AcornToArabella I have watched your progress from the very start. She is looking good! Keep up the progress. (By the way what I was saying is that I haven’t been getting notifications of new episodes. I then lose track.
@@AcornToArabella regarding the need for grab rails around the housetop, but also the need to put the tender there... Fit grab rails/ropes to the tender itself. 2 birds, 1 stone .
Awesome video. Love the dilemma & challenges. Handrail heights change as boat heels over. And you tend to lean up to hold. Inboard Jerry cans, provide less ballast, and force you to walk outboard. But they do secure better & stay away from sheets 🤔 At 6’7 I can vouch for the ouch. Make you coach the right height for you. Tall boat people are used to ducking & hitting our heads. Why not a slightly smaller gas tank than the std 4.5kg. Yours is only running a stove, it will last ages. Viking make great composite tanks (can’t get them here in NZ😡), alternatively s/S or aluminium are also options. Apologies if this has already been covered below.
Had a horizontal propane tank in my campervan. It's great for the reasons that you mentioned, but it does mean that you can't just swap them out... bigger advantage for a campervan as opposed to all of those generic propane swap locations out on the oceans.
16:00 you cannot use horizontal mounted propane tank. Its specifically designed to supply appliances that burn liquid state of propane, with the valve on the side and horizontally mounted tank you would fuel forklifts for example. Most of camping stoves, gas lamps, cooking stoves etc need gas state of propane, which is only available via top-mounted valve.
They do make horizontally mounted propane tanks that are meant to be used horizontally, with stoves, furnaces, etc. Though you are correct you cannot hook up a forklifts propane tank to a gas stove, due to feeding the stove liquid gas instead of gaseous... gas... but good job trying to keep them from burning their boat to the ocean floor.
@@memeier9894 Using standard 20# tanks makes swapping tanks easy if you can not find someplace to fill our tanks. Also propane tanks require recertification, and it is often easier to swap tanks rather than re-certify your tanks.
@@danniederman8231 I agree, but that has little to do with the original comment, or my correction, they are two separate issues entirely. Also edit to say, its not standardized across the world, and you will need adapters, regardless of whether you decide to fill, or buy new ones. They also generally won't trade in your old tank, for a new one due to having a different fitting than their countries standard. The adapters are necessary due to having to fill your bottles in a country with different fittings, or buying new bottles, and having to adapt that to your fittings installed in the boat, unless you plan on doing a whole lot of swapping hoses and fittings as well...
So I now know what a locust tree looks like, and yeah, it's pretty gnarly. We were lying in a park yesterday, under a tree, and my partner mentioned that it was a lovely tree. So I used my trusty app to identify it, and lo behold it was a locust. I might have got a little bit animated.
:) "I might have got a little bit animated." I'mm'a use that ok? I get animated too. hahah Yeah locust trees are totally amazing. They're legumes, nitrogen fixers, they grow fast, they're rot resistant, and they're strong as hell. What a material! Tough on tools, though. -Annie B
When KP bumped the stove. it made me wonder. is there a need for a rail or some sort of protection from falling into a hot stove underway? or, would the stoves be off due to wave action anyway?
There will be a grab rail above it that will be quite natural to reach for, and it becomes habit that when you see a stove on, you don’t touch it. The stove is gimbaled specifically so it can be used while under way.
KP and Steve what amazing teamwork.
Best thing about this channel is the fearless way that Steve re-invents time-tested (but not quite perfect) boatbuilding techniques. Deck fairing, welded bronze floors, home-made “plywood”, heated gluing boxes, etc, etc. A whole heck of a lot of modern innovation in a “traditional” boat.
Which, and I hope this is eloquent, because it’s one of my favorite parts of wooden boat building: innovation IS the tradition. Best exemplified by vernacular workboats that match the exact conditions in which waterfolk need to work, and by the composite wood boats that are some of the fastest, sleekest, most modern things on the water. I could wax lyrical about it a long while. -Anne
In the opening moments, KP uttered my life motto. “If it does work, it’s going to be awesome. If it doesn’t work, it’ll cost us a little time, and then we’ll know.”
Word to live by!
The Empire State Building took a year to build ???? How long will this boat take to sail ?? thank you n be well.
@@MegaBait1616 as long as it takes.
Quick! Patent your jig, Steve! Patent it and sell it!
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This video was amazing to me!!! You put the cloths over the house top and OMG you were standing inside the house!!! The first time it was a real feel of the inside of Arabella!!! She is beginning to take a life and become your boat (kingdom!!!). How amazing!!!! You didn’t show it but I can’t believe for a minute that you guys didn’t say WOW!!!! This is Arabella!!!!
We felt that too about putting the drop cloths on! Thanks for sharing you’re excitement with us. 😁
what a great creative way to seriously cut a TON of time and hard work and skill necessary to do a job like that. 11/10 creativity.
That’s a high compliment, thanks Timothy!
The gears are always turning your head Steve. Looking fantastic kids!
A very ingenious fairing jig! Old meets new, and the job gets done easier, faster. Well done!
It's nice to see KP's appreciation of old bronze and brass, I love it too. I need to find a port light to hang in the house for decoration.
Steve, you make the best jigs to get the job done...nice to see you work your magic with the wood!
Nice video! Have the house top as low as possible without having to duck. The lower the boom the more stable your boat will be in rough weather..
Well done KP on keeping your composure and not bursting out laughing. I know I did! 😂 20:07
Happy Friday everyone! Steve never stops thinking does he? Always coming up with something that makes the job easier. Have a great week!
Happy Friday, Kathy!
That fairing method was really cool :)
Steve…. genius with the planning jig…. Again this is a work of art…..
Dear Arabellas Acorns.
👍👌👏 Extremely well done again and as always (video and work). Ingenious faring jig by the way! Congrats! Congrats also for being such a good team. Because I'm 190 cm (6ft3"?) tall, I simply hate not to have enough room hight respectively head space. Please kindly allow me some suggestions: I guess that you will have guests often while sailing, so please consider that mankind has and is becoming taller steadily. ;-) And because Arabella should last at least hundred years, please consider the height of the deckhouse very well (please don't build the boat only fitting for yourself). And please, please don't take this as criticism, it's definitely not meant to be. 💚
As always: Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Steve watching you and KP work together on the fairing jig was a joy , I'm just standered joiner in the UK ,but watching this boat build is joy considering wot your going for. Al strength to you all .....stu from UK
Cheers, Stu!
Keep going guys. Your logic and problem solving discussion sounds spot on. Excellent work..
I found this channel during the pandemic lockdown and I’ve been a fan ever since ! Outstanding craftsmanship! Thank you for chronicling you’re adventure I can’t wait to see her sails up & making way …
Thank you for being here, Robert! And thank you for your kind words.
Steve and KP are working great together. Awesome jig idea!
I like the way KP works with Stephen. She has a lot of knowledge but is very good at putting good ideas over in manageable pieces. Stephen is also good to be able to take the best of all ideas and fit them into his future life/home. I like to see how these ideas are discussed and eventually are implemented. Also it is so good to see what I would call small-town USA and see how helpful and pleasant people really are as compared with the image portrayed of Americans in many films. It is quite heartening to see this silent majority at work
KP is doing great, they have an awesome dynamic with Steve and it's great to see their contributions. Well done, and I can't wait to see whatever comes next!
KP is awesome. This is the best channel ever. I'll be there for the open house.
Hooray, Steven! See ya there!
How amazing to get a feel for what the interior of the cabin will be like. It's gonna' be good! :-)
Absolutely loving it! And I’d never have thought that this kind of inventions were still possible - but hey, wooden boats are just coming back … guess the craft was dormant for a while and modern tricks kind of passed the trade. If there are more folks who think like Steve, who knows to what hights wooden boat building will come back to!
They’ve always been here! Not so much dormant as moving from conventional and common to just another material boats are made of. Some of the most innovative boat building methods right now are being developed with wood. No kiddin’. And most of these folks are so busy building that they can’t make videos, but they’re out there. Trailblazing. -Anne
@@AcornToArabella - Anne.. have you ever given thought to one day having your own channel, to showcase these people on?
It's nice to hear you talk through the next step of preparing the deck & house roof I can see what you are doing and it sound great. Thanks Mark Dutka Oakville Ontario Canada.
Regular viewing on my Friday lunchtime, from a slightly cooler Bedfordshire today. The new build is looking good.
Thanks, Nick! Glad to have lunch with you :)
Thanks for posting and sharing. The boat is looking great.
Thanks! We’re glad you’re watching.
I am very impressed with your decking jig - conception, building and execution!
Thank you, Christopher! Thanks for watching.
Love the beam fairing contraption. Necessity is the mother of invention!
Steve Genius Brain Man. Good lord. Outstanding. Great video. thanks for sharing!
im always amazed at the quality of the raw lumber you guys cut down!
It's a jungle out there! Truth be told, we thought we had a lot more usable stuff in our giant locust pile. We'll get to that next week.
The two of you are working together really well. Nice to see.
And fun to do!
I'm really liking KP, they are a great addition to the team!
We think so too!
"The honey badger of sanding" Love it!
Great camaraderie. This team is moving right along.
Great job you two. I've had my coffee with A2A this morning so I'm off to a great start. My mother, who's in a nursing home now, is going to see Willie Nelson tonight! (She loves to cry to his music) My late brother's best friend is taking her (she has a crush on him too!) so it's going to be a great night for her! So, we're all excited for her. The weather is fine, Willie is in town and all is well.
Oh yeah, I kind of missed the music. I don't mind it without it but I think it adds something to your videos. I'm sure you'll get all kinds of opinions about it. Lol. Tell KP she's doing a great job and I think we all appreciate what she brings to the project. Y'all (Alabama) take care and see you next week!! Tell Grandma and Grandpa hello!!
Hey Patty! Can't wait to hear what a nice time your mom has at that concert tonight. What excitement. So sweet, "she loves to cry to his music." Aww. How lovely.
Yeah, we love Ben's music, too! And of course I'll pass your kind words on to KP. Happy Friday, Patty! -Anne
My Friday is complete. Great video guys. Good night!
Thanks for watching!
As usual these days lots of progress! Love it!
Your fairing innovation is a huge win, imho. The mounting approach will be useful for many other types of projects. Thank you.
Thanks! Very kind.
I would love to come to the open house, but alas, I'm not able. I'll be there in spirit! Loved that deck rig!
Aw shoot, wish you could come Charles. Thank you!
Been watching you from the beginning. Excellent stuff bro
Thanks for watching!
I love to hear KP's input as it is always nice to have second thought process on a problem (if that makes sense)
The art of the build...sweet jig!
I wish I could go to the open house, but job requirements and living on the opposite side of the country in Hawaii significantly complicated everything. So I support Arabella through my merch and memorabilia purchases. She's really taking shape from when I started following her build when she was just a drawing and some guide frames. Keep it up Steve, I'll support the project as I can, who knows you might just decide to visit the port in Honolulu, you know as a long-distance shakedown cruise... lol If you do get out this way I'd be glad to meet up and take you around town. ;-)
Aloha, friend. Thank you for your support and we do wish you could come to open house, too. Mahalo!
Yea, I hear you, unfortunately have to travel over Hawaii in May. Was really looking forward to the open house. Damn.
I took apart a inoperable 150 yo skeleton key lock and was amazed at how intact and beautifully designed it was. The spring steel that operated both the latch and door knob lock was still strong. All it needed was a cleaning and minor adjusting and was back in business.
Wow!
What a great idea. Love the way you think these things through. Kudos.
Great work folks, I liked your deck beam fairing system. It good to think outside the box.
Yeah, as long as median center of effort on sail isn't affected greatly, a little extra headroom will feel great
That's what it's looking like.
It's nice to see two heads working together & both questioning each others thought process to come to a good & practical solution then move forward with a better understanding. & I do believe kP would not hesitate to gently voice a different opinion if it seemed that things were looking like taking a wrong tack & I think the same with Steve & that is how thing's get done & done right 😁👍.
Glad you enjoyed that! I’m enjoying, rather than a flat explanation, seeing a discussion and the arrival to a solution or decision instead. Hope it’s illuminating for all! -Anne
Jig master back at it. Brilliant.
Hahah nice nickname!
I love making jigs, but your beam jig is ingenious. Can't wait to see what you come up with to fair the hull. 😉
Steve, you've got one hell of a good shipwright on the job. I just hope that she sticks around long enough for Arabella's launch. All the best.
🙌🏼 Thanks, Bruce! That’s what we’re hoping too.
Awesome thinking!
It's only a bad idea if it doesn't work. So you may need to sharpen the Plane more often. But the hard labor avoided is more than worth it. Pretty brilliant idea. I think Lou would agree.
I will be amongst those that vote for not losing the intro and music please! And the obligatory shot of Akiva.
Oh yeah this episode was woefully devoid of enough housewolf time. Thanks for the feedback!
Good Morning from East Sandwich, Cape Cod!
A beautiful place in the world! Happy Friday, Bud!
Crazy weekend but I’m finally getting my A2A fix!
Love it when people think out sid etnhe box, well done. Big time saver..
I was a cruiser with my family on a 40 foot sailboat when I was a kid. I like the high house top. That jerry can storage on deck looks really nice to me. I don't think losing a bit of sail is really going to make much difference in how fast your boat is.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Where in the world did you all cruise?
@@AcornToArabella we sailed from olympia washington to as far south as manzanillo mexico and then to Hawaii and back to Washington. I was 12 and my sister was 15. The trip took almost 2 years.
I ordered my E-ZE Pass today and am doing the 7.5 hour road trip from Canada. The last time I did a 7 hour trip was 1973. I had my exhaust fixed on Wednesday just have one more job to get done on the car by the Lexus dealership. Then book a room and I am sorted. Very exciting.
Yaaay, Andrew, great! In episode 211, out today, there will be Open House info. Also, check out: www.acorntoarabella.com/open-house
KP looked so happy surrounded by all of Victoria’s old port lights 😄
I saw your teaser of the "deckbeam fairing flapdisk jig" on the 'gram - and while I couldn't work out what it was for, I thought it had a feel of the contraption for cutting bevels on the planking. Good to see it working out for you - while there's centuries of boatbuilding tradition, I guess there's also plenty of room for some innovation in the right place.
And always some dust & noise.
Holy heck is there ever dust!
Ok, your deck fairing idea is great, save for one detail. One should never use a “grit based” stock removal tool (sandpaper), and then follow it up with tool steel. The grit becomes impregnated in the wood, and will dull your steel extremely quickly.
many power planers use double-sided, disposable carbide blades.
At the speed the grinder spins plus the light pressure they surely applied, I don't think the grit inset was significant...
What Marc says, plus, locust bites back and is rough on tool steel to begin with. We take your point though and thank you for sharing it!
May is creeping up upon ya. Next week sounds like the week for prep for buttoning up. Your getting close. Dreams to Reality! God bless ya all!
Good morning Akiva and Crew :-)
You might want to consider fiberglass propane tanks. They won't rust, and are considerably lighter to carry.
remember you will be cruiser not a racer - comfort is really important if you are spending a lot of time on the boat - you will use your tender a lot so make it easy to use - we all like the traditional lines of the old boats but they have to be practical
Totally, great points. For the most part, stowing on deck is for offshore only. We'll be towing it an awful lot, which is simple enough. Thanks for watching!
@@AcornToArabella Stephen, maybe it would help the process more to make a mockup of tender to rest on the current house profile and some string to represent bottom of boom ? Just a few segments like the keel cross section in profile from to bow/stern and some bent crossbeams to staple cloth or cardboard onto for visualization ( like an old kite's construction ) ? That will likely allow you to balance these variables. KP's point about handrails made me rethink their utility and when they are utilized... maybe they can be much taller if you made them stowable ? I'm thinking just make them so they can rotate down below flush with roof edge so they aren't impeding tender on/off but can be tall enough to raise in 1 or more latching increments to a really useful height ? They would also serve to help contain tender sliding off the sides when raised above flush. The handrails could also be simply a rope or cable from fore to aft instead of a solid wood rail and still be appropriate looking, right ?
agree spent time in boats with cramped head room and it gets old really quick, atkins boom gooseneck seems very low going up wont hurt too much.he was designing a gentlemans yacht not a live on long term cruiser
@@AcornToArabella
I was looking at the jerry cans on the sides of your house, and I thought, "Those will block the windows (portals)!" I'm sure you'll come up with a plan...
Hry Steve, have you given any thought to using Rotopax type fuel containers. The mountings are incredibly secure and much easier than lashing those typenof containers to the deck. Not to mention the rotormolded containers are very durable.
Nice video. Long time between episodes. Looking real good.
We’re here every week, Ken, and we’re glad you’ve stopped by! Does it look way different than last time you watched or what? Launching in 2023, by the way!
@@AcornToArabella I have watched your progress from the very start. She is looking good! Keep up the progress. (By the way what I was saying is that I haven’t been getting notifications of new episodes. I then lose track.
Fantastic, innovative work as always. You're an inspiration. Onwards and upwards guys!
ONWARD TO LAUNCH! 2023, Ian! Thanks for being here on the journey with us!
@@AcornToArabella regarding the need for grab rails around the housetop, but also the need to put the tender there... Fit grab rails/ropes to the tender itself. 2 birds, 1 stone .
...or put spacers on the tie-downs that hold them up from the dinghy's hull so they act as grab rails. WE'RE COOKIN' WITH CRISCO, FRIENDS. -Anne
Awesome.. Love it Team. Thank you
And thanks for being here! Happy Friday.
Enjoyed the show
I really learnt something new today - I had no idea that power planers had a history spanning centuries.
Hahahah yeaaaah about that talking on the fly thing we do 😁
Ingenious Idea! Making fast progress.
Zippin' along! Thanks for watching, Rex!
Did you make a good choice with KP or what? An incredible addition to your stacked deck of talent!
Energy, intelligence, experience, and humor. We're so glad KP's here. Sunshine and talent in the shop.Thanks for the kind words, Scott!
Thanks folks.
Had to smile at Steve checking headroom (17.56).
Amazing work
Thank you, Jean!
Awesome video. Love the dilemma & challenges.
Handrail heights change as boat heels over. And you tend to lean up to hold.
Inboard Jerry cans, provide less ballast, and force you to walk outboard. But they do secure better & stay away from sheets 🤔
At 6’7 I can vouch for the ouch. Make you coach the right height for you. Tall boat people are used to ducking & hitting our heads.
Why not a slightly smaller gas tank than the std 4.5kg. Yours is only running a stove, it will last ages. Viking make great composite tanks (can’t get them here in NZ😡), alternatively s/S or aluminium are also options.
Apologies if this has already been covered below.
Thanks for the thoughtful comments and stay on the windward side! Cheers!
As an expert armchair wooden boat builder, that fairing trick is genius!
😁
Brilliant!
Thanks, Paul! Grateful for your support.
Awesome episode! Nice job! Soon on the Blue! 👍👍👊👊
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Great job on the jig!!
Thanks!
Good Morning y'all
We completed our travel plans tonight and are super excited to meet everyone in a couple of weeks!
Hooray! So glad you’re coming!
Had a horizontal propane tank in my campervan. It's great for the reasons that you mentioned, but it does mean that you can't just swap them out... bigger advantage for a campervan as opposed to all of those generic propane swap locations out on the oceans.
What a journey Steve.
Indeed! Thanks for being on it with us!
Happy Friday 🎉
16:00 you cannot use horizontal mounted propane tank. Its specifically designed to supply appliances that burn liquid state of propane, with the valve on the side and horizontally mounted tank you would fuel forklifts for example. Most of camping stoves, gas lamps, cooking stoves etc need gas state of propane, which is only available via top-mounted valve.
They do make horizontally mounted propane tanks that are meant to be used horizontally, with stoves, furnaces, etc.
Though you are correct you cannot hook up a forklifts propane tank to a gas stove, due to feeding the stove liquid gas instead of gaseous... gas... but good job trying to keep them from burning their boat to the ocean floor.
@@memeier9894 Using standard 20# tanks makes swapping tanks easy if you can not find someplace to fill our tanks. Also propane tanks require recertification, and it is often easier to swap tanks rather than re-certify your tanks.
@@danniederman8231 I agree, but that has little to do with the original comment, or my correction, they are two separate issues entirely.
Also edit to say, its not standardized across the world, and you will need adapters, regardless of whether you decide to fill, or buy new ones.
They also generally won't trade in your old tank, for a new one due to having a different fitting than their countries standard.
The adapters are necessary due to having to fill your bottles in a country with different fittings, or buying new bottles, and having to adapt that to your fittings installed in the boat, unless you plan on doing a whole lot of swapping hoses and fittings as well...
You folks really do make some beautifully useful, constructive threads up in here. Thanks for it!
Was waiting for Casey's idea for the faring....cheers...richard
Great video!!
Thanks, Rick!
Work smarter, not harder! But if you do both, like you guys do, the results are impressive indeed!
Well shucks. Thanks!
Boats that I used to sail on we strung the tender up the top of the mast, saved lots of room.
That’s… wow. You’re pulling our legs.
Nice!! Getting closer each day.
Thanks, Bill! Happy Friday!
Good evening from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Thanks for being here! Happy Friday!
great stuff
Morning from the Welsh Borders
Happy happy Friday! Thanks for being here every week.
Clever bit of design on the deck frame hog!
So I now know what a locust tree looks like, and yeah, it's pretty gnarly. We were lying in a park yesterday, under a tree, and my partner mentioned that it was a lovely tree. So I used my trusty app to identify it, and lo behold it was a locust. I might have got a little bit animated.
:) "I might have got a little bit animated." I'mm'a use that ok? I get animated too. hahah Yeah locust trees are totally amazing. They're legumes, nitrogen fixers, they grow fast, they're rot resistant, and they're strong as hell. What a material! Tough on tools, though. -Annie B
When KP bumped the stove. it made me wonder. is there a need for a rail or some sort of protection from falling into a hot stove underway? or, would the stoves be off due to wave action anyway?
There will be a grab rail above it that will be quite natural to reach for, and it becomes habit that when you see a stove on, you don’t touch it. The stove is gimbaled specifically so it can be used while under way.