Vacation Adventures and Visiting Norna - Episode 179 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2021
- We covered a general plan for the interior in a breezy way a few weeks ago in a bonus video ( • The Floor Plan, Bonus ... ), but now that a few things are in place and the vision came into focus, Carolyn drew a scaled layout plan that is approaching some semblance of "complete." As she and Steve do a virtual walkthrough of the details... is that... A WORKBENCH?!
Finally unboxing the head and the deck prisms was exciting. We are ever so thankful to the people who have been donating funds to the wish list and made it possible for us to receive key interior items just about on time for when we'll need them. We're working on a special interior project presently for which there are a few new things on the list. Check it out: www.acorntoarabella.com/wishl...
Norna is a Danish-built, lapstrake, heavy-scantling cruising boat that our friends Kourtney Patterson and Pete Grundvig have been living aboard for the last 20 years. These Floridians have done a North Atlantic circumnavigation, and now they spend their summers in Maine. You might remember Pete and Kourtney coming to visit and help with Arabella when they've passed through on their way north or south-and it was Kourtney who burned Carolyn's dragon into the bilge stringers. Check out Kourtney's videos here: / accidentalsailorgirl They love their AirHead, and it was neat to see their installation and hear a few pointers from them... right on time.
We hope you enjoyed this week's video, which is heavy on adventure. It is a sweet reminder of things to come, and all the places we'll take Arabella. Thanks for watching and for your support.
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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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Definitely one of your top 5 videos of all time. So relaxing and enjoyable. The extra 10 minutes did not go unnoticed and I would like to share my appreciation for it!
Just an opinion here and please keep up the great work. I reckon that the head could be moved to the aft port quarter on the other side of the engine with a little extra work. Otherwise you have a head in the middle of the communal area near the galley. Then you could move the Nav station to the head's old location and turn the old nav station area and lockers into another space to use as a cabin or adhoc storage as required. The relocated nav station could also be a fold down table to give yourselves more space if required.
Carolyn’s hands show someone who works hard. Who else can wield a mallet and draw with the best? She is a treasure.
I think people think of New England as this flat coastal plain and don't understand that we are also dead in the middle of Northern Appallachia with amazing mountains, albiet a tad smaller than the Rockies, but beautiful just the same. I love the fact that I can drive 10 mins to the ocean, and an hr or less to the mountains, and see amazing history and beautiful pastoral scenes all along the way. We are so lucky to live in such an amazingly beautiful place!!
Its good to see the similarities and differences in approach between Arabella and Tally Ho. Both channels coincidentally posted videos regarding interior layout and design within a couple of days of each other. Hope to see you sail alongside them one day.
Same production company.
@@villageblunder4787 what the heck are you talking about?
tally ho going electric hybred
I'm disappointed. I was expecting more innovations, I think Leo and Steven should sit down with Dan and Kika right now at this juncture, post haste. Very likely there "is only so much you can do" with the space available and better minds than mine have considered the challenge, what, a jillion times. Fascinating subject, for me at least.
@@prankishsquire2663 there is space it would cost more initially but come on . they must contact Oceanvolt
So good to see Robyn in the video. Maine is a beautiful state.
Super enjoyable thanks for taking us along to the coast and the mountains and the woods!
Any project of this magnitude will have it's ebb and flow of work ethic. I've watched this build progress for a long time and I think Steve has been persevering to the point of obsession. It's great to see him get away to recharge and exercise the whole person. And what better way to restore your frustrated sailor's soul than to see and visit some pristine examples of classic wood boats and commune with kindred souls. It even makes me want to get back down in the shop to work on some cabinets that need to be extracted from the lumber pile.
Wow Steve! When you take time off you really cram a lot of activities in. Climbing, hiking, mountain biking, canoeing, fly fishing, touring wooden boats. I’d need a vacation from your vacation.
I second that remark. Love the nature and lack of humans... Would be great.
@@jessemiller3001 yeah, been a long time since I've gotten out were there were no signs of human life to be seen. Man, I miss PURE nature. Seeing it on a man made device just can't compare. 😃
Yeah, need a couple days of just laying in bed relaxing with the one you love after a vacation like that. Preferably with room service or delivery. Binge watching a show/series/or series of movies the both of you love. Or snuggling on the couch together doing the same. Just resting together, letting the bodies recuperate from the vacation.
Although there were no other humans at that spot, there was evidence of some having been there. That neat pile of rocks was stacked by someone, some time ago...
Carolyn, I for one enjoyed seeing your talent in action! Hope to seeing you return...
Very cool to see the Mary Day is still on the water. When I was a kid I was given a book titled "Michael and the Mary Day". It was a story about the boat and a boy, it was beautifully illustrated with water color images of the Mary Day and the Maine coast.
Mary Day thrives. Captain Barry is awesome.
How big is she? I didn’t catch that in the video. The interior looks massive.
She's a beautiful boat for sure!
All I could do was sit in awe with a happy smile as I watched this episode. Awesome and great to see Steve and Robyn having adventures sharing their fun with us. Thank you.
I just love my Friday mornings with you guys! Now it is time to get out to the shop and mill up some hard maple for the cider press I am restoring. Thanks for helping me start the day right! CHEERS!!!
NICE!! Get it!
at 16:22 right before she pops up it looks like a monster movie when it is barreling through trees. Just seeing the trees rusting. lol. Thought i clicked on wrong channel. Nice to see everybody taking a well deserved break. Enjoy your free time.
I love the sound of a double rack in the morning.
Wow, what a fun adventure! Thanks for including us all! The schooners at the end of the video were something made from heaven! Blessings to you all as you forge your way to through the next steps!
Beautiful scenery guys.
17:11 I love little moments like that in videos those candid genuine smiles!
Maine welcomes you! Glad you got some sunshine, been days of rain on the Midcoast. Rock and sea we have in spades.
Maine has the only rocky shore on the east coast, if I remember correctly. It is a beautiful part of the world. Don’t tell anyone, but I swiped a 1/2 sq ft hunk of pink granite from Mount Desert Isle, and it’s in my garden. 😁
Excellent vid. Really envious of such a great break. Thanks
Took my breath away what a beautiful land to visit, and Then climb some awesome mountain.
Another excellent presentation. This one felt like FaceTime’ing with family we hadn’t seen in a while. Thanks for the vaca pics and the tour of the inlet.
What a beautiful, chossy adventure alpine crag. Who pulls harder, Steve or Robin? Thanks for sharing your lives with us. It brings helps bring the whole world closer to one another.
We were anchored across the way when you all were visiting Norna. Think you'll enjoy the compost head. In 40 years (livaboard, ocean, coastal sailing) we have tried everything. The last ten has been with our composter. I wouldn't go with anything else. We did route our exhaust fan hose into a nice dry dorade box.
Oooo, that’s a good idea. We do plan to have ours go out of a mushroom vent.
@@AcornToArabella hopefully you don't have to vent during a long rainy spell. Maybe think about a vent that turns downward above deck? Like a trap in plumbing?
Wow, wow and wow!
Wow where ever you were, the nature looked beautiful!
From boat building to Nat-Geo what a great episode, thanks for the ride along
Good for you to get some time off. Looks like y'all had fun.
Thank you for my 2nd vacation this year! You folks are awesome!
Love the stairs, curved adds CLASS. Thanks for doing the draft! Nice height on toilet,people hate quating down. Vent is huge thing 🥰
I love the look on Steve’s face as their hosts describe waves rolling in and down the companionway. 29:18.
This is 1 of the most interesting videos you've made so far. Keep up the good work!
Dear Arabellas Acorns.
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic again and as always. I especially liked all the good advices/examples from your friends, the nice sailing experienced and boat life experienced couple onboard the gorgeous Norna. For instance: To raise the toilet for way better handling the front fluid bucket is a very important suggestion. I like their ship a lot, especially because of the green sails and tarps (I simply love nearly everything that is green).
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all involved people and dogs.
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Thanks for the adventure 🤙 Prisms and boats and mountains and biking ❤ Just splendid ❤
I love the deck prisms! Thanks for taking me on vacation with you! Great footage and it was so fun to see all your activities! DD
The country round Maine looks absolutely beautiful, hope you can spend even more time up there as you cruise. Norna is an interesting vessel.
Thank you for showing us another side of your life and some beautiful country side as well as beautiful boats. One of the most relaxing videos to date :-)
Thanks, Richard!
I loved your hare❤️
😊it was quite the moment!!
Old Time fiddle and banjo are perfect on the boat. Was always fun having a cockpit jam in Port Townsend with all of the talented folks there. My banjo is a Kevin Enoch Tradesman. Stoked for a trip to Red Rocks for some long moderate trad pitches in October. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful scenery and another beautiful boat with the added bonus of Steve doing a Jesus impression walking on water while fishing.
Jesus was a carpenter too.
I caught the fishing while walking on water also. Like I said I loved all the parts of this video. It's nice seeing Steve and Robin in their natural element doing things they enjoy.
Come on, guys, he was only standing on water.
19:30 looks similar and reminded me of White Ghyll in Great Langdale in the UK Lake District, it's been 40 years since I climbed, brought back some great memories, thanks guys
My dad used to love climbing like that back in the 70s. Even in my best health, I could never reliably climb like that. I’d do the work on the boat, and sail it too, even now. Such a great trip and lovely company.
What a fantastic video! I love all parts of it. You got some gorgeous pics on your vacation. The Norna is an interesting craft just like those who sail her. I bet you could have talked well into the night if given the chance. I'm glad you got some rest.
I loved all of the wooden boats, but that Mary Day.. wooooooh hooo!
Yeah what a boat!
Another class act. Thank you
Thanks for taking me along. Your trip was awesome!
Great idea! My grandad used to fish upper Maine tributaries; beautiful country. Good to take a break...cheers...rr Normandy, Fra.
Great plan drawings Carolyn. Gives a great perspective.
Oh! The places you‘ll go! I can’t wait to see when Arabella launches and you take us along on your Adventures.
Good show.. thanks for the tours..
Great to see the Mary Day at the end of the video. I spent a week aboard her in the summer of 1989, cruising on the Maine coast. I have been obsessed with wooden sailboats ever since. Love your channel. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching!
Hey Brian, we’ve seen your comments, and throwing them all over the place, even in someone else’s sub-thread is getting to be a bit much. Rude, even. Here’s the deal: the neoliberal idea that climate change is going to be best battled by way of consumers beating other consumers over the head with guilt-based messaging is partially what’s made this crisis worse than it needed to be. The truth is, if you really care about the outcomes and creating change, we can’t buy our way out of this problem and need a system-wide movement and paradigm shift. While you cheer on one boat choosing an electric sail drive with a huge battery bank containing elements that came from questionable (and growing) mining operations, pipelines are built, corporations get slaps on the hand for huge disasters, and are able to continue doing business. The current President just opened up 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling. Be brave, indeed. Shift focus. Shift effort. Write to the right people, please. Our lives depend on it.
@@AcornToArabella OK you have read my opinion, I will not debate with you. I apologise if you believe I have been rude. I will. remove all my posts. Live long and prosper sustainability.
What a great episode. Really good content. Thank you so much.
Shucks, thanks Thomas!
I was talking about your friends but that Mary day is a beautiful boat wow
I really enjoy watching the work on Araballa and also enjoy the footage of Stephen off on adventures with Robin. Gorgeous views of the mountains. If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats He would have made us fiberglass trees. Brilliant! Another great episode of A2A. Thanks for sharing.
Those prisms are HUGE
Katahdin is certainly the wildest spot in the US East of the Rockies. I've only climbed there in winter. What a great choice for your vacation.
Some beautiful boats in this video :)
Goodness me those mountains are high. Got goosebumps looking back.
Down here in Florida we don't see that many wooden sailboats. My oh my you have some beauties up there. Soak up all that interior layouts and use the best for Arabella. You are doing a great job.
Everyone needs a break. And y'all have definitely earned it. That view from the "mountain" top?! That was INCREDIBLE!! Great job getting up there! So beautiful. And those sail boats were AMAZING. The (sp) Ratlains like on Rediviva look so cool! I hope you plan to make them as well. It really makes a sail boat look much better. Wonderful video, Ben. Well done sir.
Thanks for posting and sharing. Great to see and hear your visit with Kourtney and Pete.
Nice to see a modern boat builder using old technology. Those prism's are Extremely effective
Wow good job on the sketch👍👍
Carolyn did a fabulous drawing of the cabin. Superb!
We’re so thankful for it!
Wow, that is another awesome looking boat. I'm sure you took away some ideas from that and it also helps you with realising some of your ideas when they are actually in use.
This is showing only one discussion we’ve had with many friends who have all sorts of boats and experiences.
Hi Steve,
Concerning the Airhead, I've used one for 3 years on my 36' Cape George Cutter. I'm really impressed with it, guests are initially skeptical...the first thing I ask them is if they can smell anything in the head, nobody has smelled any odor. The solids tank max out with over 3 persons, and the liquid tank fills up after 2 days with 2 people (Hint- don't let it get overfull!) You'll need to mix the coconut husks with water before adding it to the solids tank (see RUclips videos) and I swear that if done correctly it will take over a month to fill up! Do your solids on a paper coffee filter for minimal cleanup. Never sleep with a smelly poop tank under your bunk again!
Great to see you guys having fun! Arabella is really demanding; the time out was well merited. Lovely shot at 15:17 - 15:27. And the climbing sequence was wicked! "No humans, none." I so get that! (I like humans, sometimes.)
Never first ?
Always here !
Thanks for another great vid !
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So glad you’re always here. Happy Friday!
Happy Friday !
May I say it’s been a journey and a lotta work in progress.
It’s look’n good !
That's a life well lived!
The dragon is cool! When I was in the Navy we actually had a lot of personalization in the ship.
wonderful episode loved your freinds boat and what an amazing collection of proper sailing vessels. btw excellent music choices as well
Ben, our video editor, writes the music. Thanks for the kind words! There's a link in the description to more of his music.
I can imagine visiting your friends boat gave you lots of ideas of ´what to do` and maybe several others of ´What not to do` ... take care and keep up the good work .. your fans from Malta
The best folks, and most of our friends, say, “Here’s how we did it,” without the tone of authority, because there’s so many ways to do things, and many of them involve personal decisions. Wow, Malta! Thanks for watching!
12:15 What a great ambition. Unbelieveable.
Wow a very interesting episode of what life could be on board Arebella.
That is a good looking boat as old world charm
I have been running a compost toilet (natureshead) for about 7 years. I love the thing. Turns poo into dry "dirt". I recommend ordering a new seal and fan for it to have on hand. When a fan goes bad, the smell can get to you.
Those that like composting heads seem to love them. I am afraid I find them a horrifying idea. On the other hand, deck prisms are awesome.
I was a doubter until I built and used one. They work really well. Frees up a lot of space and maintenance. Properly vented, odors have never been a problem.
Steven, Robin seems to be a kindred soul to you, and I hope she’ll be your first mate on the high seas…. In a couple years.
Norna is a beautiful boat.
The butterfly hatch... hell yes.. must do that.
Seeing St. Augustine on their map makes me hopeful to see Arabella pull in here someday!
great stuff
Nice trip
Now it's really starting to look like a boat
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Marry Day is one beautiful boat. Who ever drew her lines was an artist with exceptional talent
She was designed by Havilah Hawkins, Sr. expressly for the passenger trade. All other passenger schooners at the time (and still in service) have been converted from their commercial configurations (lumber, fishing, oystering) and are beautiful in their own way.
beautiful , smart people , that's the way to live
That looks like the opening to the drowning cave in Locke and Key!!
A 5 gal bucket with kitty litter works pretty good as a head too 👍🏻
Good morning Akiva and Crew :-)
Nice drawing.
Your script is on point.
Looked like a solid rout to simul climb. Should consider it next time!
I think you two would love the Mount Arapalis area in Victoria Australia, it has some very challenging climbs plus easier climbs and a climbing community from all over the world.
I’m a semi-full time camper. Poo is always the worst part of the trip. I like that desiccant toilet. Going to look into one of those for my trailer.
Yeah they’re really popular for trailers and tiny homes, or off-grid homes.
The head reminds me of a Clivus Multrum toilet that we could not wait to have removed when I was on our Parks Development Corporation board back in the 90s.
Great video Steve Arabella is looking fantastic she is a credit to Alix and yourself and everyone who has joined you two on this journey I also watch Kourtney's videos as well it is such a shame this is her last year producing the videos I have watched everyone I think all of Kourtney and Pete's followers will miss their videos you would have noticed Pete is quiet the craftsman himself a very gifted boatbuilder you could learn a lot off of him but keep up the good work look forward to your next video.
The Mary Day has pleasing lines, good looking vessel. I expect Arabella to be easy on the eyes too. Vacation time is NOT over rated, I am headed to Alaska in a couple of weeks.
Have a blast!
I was going "hey below on rope, rock, rock" - glad it missed you. Anyways, this was really a great climb and it is really nice to see Robin both lead and belay in such confident manner. My best wishes to your climbing duo - you must be very happy with your climbing partner, Steve - simpliy technically, having such strong footwork as Robin has combined with well-trainned upper body must make her a perfect leader in long chimneys (and when hauling bags, he-he))) p.s. the MTB trail also looks really nice! Great trip indeed!
Nice!
Salt and Tar have just had one of those hatch's made
The Head’s pretty close to the cooking area. Makes for an interesting combination of smells.
Unlike black water holding tank systems, a dessicating head DOESN'T smell. (Unless you're doing something wrong.) But nobody believes it until they get to experience the difference for themselves.