The First Bulkhead - Episode 173 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- The pesky, dangerous maple that serves as an anchor for the boathouse comes down in this episode, and Steve (who has worked in the past as an arborist, and of course, felled the trees for the lumber in Arabella) goes through a couple of specifics about how to safely drop large limbs from a tree, making them do what you want them to do.
Then we're back on Arabella, using joggle sticks to create a pattern for the first bulkhead, which will also be the only one to create separate interior space in the boat. This somewhat private arrangement in the forepeak calls for a door, and it's time to hit the inventory of reclaimed frame and panel mahogany pieces that were salvaged from Victoria to see if anything suits the purpose.
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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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Grand-pa is an absolute champion.
The homage to Victoria is lovely.
Love those old doors and parts from Victoria. They will look great in Arabella. Like watching the way you do things different from Tally Ho, shows that anyone can build their dreams.
You say,"Anyone can build their dreams" but the ones that actually do it are very rare. The sacrifice and dedication shown by the Arabella crew is inspiring but almost impossible to emulate.
Your grandpa is totally gnarly! Just wonderful! :-)
I’m sure you know this already, but I’ll say it anyway: you are so blessed to be making all these wonderful memories with your grandpa.
Great to see Grandpa lend a hand. Adds to Arabella's history. Love watching from Australia. Joe
Tree trimming is the most dangerous thing you do. No doubt! Scares the crap out of me just watching. Very impressed. And the boat looks great too.
So nice to see Carolyn back in the house.
Damm that Mahogany is a god send!
Its going to lift the entire cabin for sure!
I love yer grampa. He is so chill, and letting you use the place like that!
That hinge was a blessing in disguise... would work so many ways better than a conventional door. 👌👍
My thoughts as well when I saw it against the bulkhead.
I served on a Frigate in the ‘60s so know all about space restrictions and using every cubic inch in the best way possible.
I bet Grandpa was grateful for the ask for help. If he is anything like me the mind say of course I can do that. The body says I don't really know. And in the end its mind over matter and he does it. I bet he is chuffed to bits doing that. Thanks for posting
Super job, Steve. My heart swole with pride as you described your safety assessment for rigging the tree. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thanks.
Thanks, Simon, Happy Friday.
Consider having the forcasle door open into the forcasle and not into the gally salon area. If you want to leave it open for airflow but not have it impede everyday life, you may appreciate having it out of the way.
I had just composed a similar thought. I'll leave it here: Maybe have the bifold door hinge along the midship, but into the forepeak area instead of into the salon. Older homes had bedroom doors hinged mid wall versus in the corner. Thus, when the door was open it partly screened the room. This gave you both some privacy while allowing ventilation.
That was also my first thought for the bifold door
I got old and need air conditioning. But the young use a blower on the fore hatch and do like you said about blowing through. Out the aft end, cockpit or something.
One challenge with that approach is that most of the forepeak is filled with a bunk and there is often no place to swing a door. The salon is usually open to the floor.
What about hinging on the outboard side? Could that be a possibility?
Your de-limbing & chimpanzee acrobatics were dynamic ! Super filming too. Brought me back a couple years to my 1st viewing in the early days when your were hoisting your way up into canopy's to clear your work space.. WoW what a long trek...big hug & cheers to you both & your crew for making this a fuller & fuller reality ! Big love from the coast south of Mtry. Ca...Canyon
I had a shipwright (and eventually friend and fellow fisherman) that I first met when he did planking work on our 58' seiner in AK. I was amazed at his cutting of the boards, hammering the caulking between the planks, and finally mortaring, and took a lot of photos in those days of him working. We later got to be crew together and talked about caulking work, and one of the most amazing things he told me is that you must have a firm but light/practiced hand, as corking planks unevenly can cumulatively skew a boat's hull shape. (Little ounces of hammer equal tons of pressure over so many seams). He taught me how to replace and cut planks for repairs. I like your joggle sticks, Nice. We used a batten and a compass. Came out perfect every time. I got really good at fitting "things" into weird spaces on boats. Hull planks, other structural metal, and wood. Nothing ever level, nothing ever square. When I learned this, I hadn't done too much carpentry to that point. Funny thing, when I came back on land and tried to build stuff with squares and such, I had no idea what I was doing and failed all the time.
Thank you so much for sharing this super wonderful build with us. I cannot wait to see it on the water!!!
The quality of the videos just keeps going up! Great shots, Great editing, and great personalities from all. I sure love Friday mornings!
Great show, as always but HELLO Caroline! Welcome back. Looks like you're all-in on Arrabella, I hope so. You've got boat building "Hands of an angel".
Wishing a Joyful Arabella day to everyone.
Same to you!
Happy Arabella Day to you too!
Best day of the week
@@navythriller you have
I did not know I could hold my breath that long!! Watching that tree come down was nerve-wracking. I'm glad you are done with that chore. That bulkhead is beautiful.
Happy Friday, Kathy!
I think the bi-folding door is the best idea. Nice tree felling work.
Thanks for posting and sharing! Bulkhead and door look 👍 great!
Nice progress on the bulkhead. Glad the tree came down safely. Good job.
Thanks for showing us how to use a joggle stick. That was really cool.
1. Grandpa is a gem! Tell him we say, "Hi!"
2. I like your choice of door, I assume you will have berths both port and starboard aft of the bulkhead. One option is have the door hinged on starboard and then have a latch to secure it to the berth when open. That will give you more room around the table.
3. You need to get Robin into more videos.
4. Friday mornings are usually video conference free so I watch you new vid with a hot cup of coffee, thank you and the team!
I followed the project on Instagram for a while, but I realized only 1,5 months ago that there is so much more content on RUclips! So after watching this episode I decided to watch all other 172 episodes from the start, because it looked interesting. It tooks me 6 weeks, and it was awesome to see all your adventures from the lead pouring! Keep up the good work! And now back to the videos, there is six more episodes wait for me to be up to date! Greetings from Hungary!
Love the constant homage to Victoria
Nice job dropping the tree. It definitely was a serious danger to the boathouse. It needed to come down. And you did it safely! The bulkheads look serviceable. The folding door gets my vote in adding an opinion. Keep up the fantastic content. 😎😎
It's great tos ee how everything is coming together! One small tip: If you make your joggle/tickle-stick with an irregular pattern of notches you don't have to number them!
Not much left to say about this episode, most of the other subscribers have already echoed my thoughts. Acorn To Arabella is a treasure.
Shucks, Vaughn. Thanks.
I went back to watch Victoria videos again. I came about the time the lead keel was being poured. Was interesting to rewatch all the Victoria episodes and Steve’s great-grandfather’s tree! I can’t believe three years have past and as my son and I are powering through an abandon shed to tiny house project on our land for his channel, it’s brings so much respect for what these guys are accomplishing with Arabella!! Seeing the door and the laminated come together today for the bulkhead was great!
Thank you Steve and Alix and all the amazing people who have contributed to this project. In these dark times of Covid and so much divisiveness in the world, this is without doubt the most inspiring channel on RUclips.
All the best
Terry Hand.
That’s very kind, Terry. Thanks so much for being on this journey with us.
That tree is gonna make some good firewood next year
every friday i'm amazed by your skills, wills and vision. you are taking me in an incredible journey from the first video, i'm so thankfull.
Wowie, thank you.
Great addition to my Friday lunchtime as ever
Dear Steve
I love what you guys are doing and I admire the endeavour and your tenacity. That said you need to get some sea miles under your belts. When you are at sea it's all about seamanship. This is something you learn in the face of mother nature. At the height of a storm you will ask yourself "What the f.... possessed me to put myself in this situation?" The wood burning stove is just a bad idea for so many reasons. A diesel stove and big roto molded diesel tanks down in the bilges is the way to go. Water makers are a modern miracle and so are modern batteries paired to oversized alternators. I grew up on, and have owned, many boats including wooden boats. All of these items will lower your center of gravity if placed properly. Keep the weight out of the ends and in the middle as much as you can. A yacht should be beautiful and functional. I am no interior designer but if you pair oak with bits and pieces of "spiritual" mahogany from Victoria you will end up with a dogs dinner! Make sure your berth is really comfortable for two. No compromises! If you have to shrink the main salon then do it. Make sure you have comfortable berths for another couple. Have you thought about a dodger? Screw the wooden dinghy; get an inflatable. A dodger is much more important to wellbeing and therefore safety. The same thing can be said of an inflatable. I recall you guys saying that your ideal is high latitude sailing. Although very different in many respects to your own project I think you would find much in common, philosophically, with Skip Novak.
I hope this does not come across as overly strident but I think you are at a point where you need to weigh up pragmatism against romanticism.
Still love you guys
Everyone learns somewhere, Steve wants to learn on his boat. He’ll get his sea miles on Arabella. It’s kinda easy to grasp… he’d be on some boat learning if he went to get sea miles and learn seamanship. Friends will come to help run the boat for near coastal cruising for that.
As for everything else, thanks for watching. Different courses for different horses, and may we all enjoy the boats we have.
Wooden boats are great at floating! ⛵
Bulkhead and door possibilities look great ! Cool to see the tree come down. HAPPY I had nothing to do with the cleanup !
Yeah, that’s most of the work!
That's some dangerous tree cutting. I did a large oak that way once. It's the last large tree I took down myself. Thankfully I make enough money now to pay someone with the right equipment to do it safely. Cheers
Hey, I remember you said something in the past about only weighing 127 lbs… I could not imagine me getting my 275 lbs up in that tree. Very nice arborist skills!
Friday night = Arabella night - love it
Its like Victoria’s mahogany door was meant to be! Love when that happens. Is a combo head/v-berth door a possibility?
Taking that maple tree out of the equation must be a huge relief.
Grandpa is a legend!
Easily the most interesting episode since the hull was completed. I especially liked the emergency felling of the Big Tree and the modeling of the first bulkhead. I would think of using the bi-fold door on the frontside of the bulkhead hinged on the starboard side so that it swings into the hull ahead of the bulkhead.When open it would take the very least useable space and when closed the fore deck would take on water tightness. ALL-A- TAUT-O
All that wonderful freshly cut timber is ideal for seasoning for later woodturning. 👍
great to see, and I vote for the double door. It looks sweet and seems very functional. Happy that gramps is out exercising too.
Your GrandPa is such a treasure. Seeing you with him reminds me of the times I worked with both of mine. Great memories for both of us!
Arabella is such a beautiful boat. The care and thoughtfulness everyone is putting into her really shows.
Thanks for allowing this old broken down man the opportunity to vicariously work on your boat!
Thanks for these kind words, Bart. Glad you’re here.
Looking good. Great to see Caroline returning. She is becoming a true craftsman and love her demeanor. Bulk heads totally change the look of the vessel. Can’t wait to see your finished design.
Steve, what about the door bi-folding into the fore-bunk against the starboard wall? While open it might block a closet or something, but once in the fore-cabin it can be closed to access the closet or whatever is behind the door. Plus, it would not be blocking anything in the galley/main cabin area. A couple of magnetic catches could hold it open and to itself when open, and even closed if strong rare-earth magnets are utilized. And, that would reduce any latches sticking out to catch on skin or clothing. I'm guessing the trim around the edges of the bulkhead will close any gaps?
Should look real nice in an oil, varnish, or paint finish when done. (Depending on trim finish and paint color, of course.)
Coming along quite nicely. Can't wait to see Caroline's return in the next episode, and the starting of the sealing of the bilge. I know she has more experience than you or I do, but that oakum sure looked like it is going in quite loose in the preview footage, I guess we'll see if the tar seeps past it later. I'm really looking forward to watching those steps.
Arabella Victoria is coming along nicely lol
Wow caulking looks like an incredibly tedious job, can't wait to watch next ep! Amazing how progress felt quite slow and then all of a sudden it's like moving too fast 🤣
Want to be really explicit… the oakum isn’t for caulking, but a temporary stop in the seams as we pour pitch into tricky, impossible to reach and clean low spots in the boat. It’ll be removed. Glad you’re watching and see ya next week too!
@@AcornToArabella wow thanks so much for educating me :)
@@remlapgarage Maybe you should take a look to the otherside of the country, the video of Tally Ho was very nice. -> ruclips.net/video/9kjdslOna5w/видео.html
So pleased original mahogany parts from Victoria are being incorporated
Great, beautiful music, Ben.
I watch Tree Surgery channels where this weeks episode would have been click bait. Good job both, love Robyn's can do attitude.
Arabella and Talley Ho really do compliment each other, but the common difficulties outside of the actual building of the boat for both projects remind us all that life goes on. Great job with the tree. Smartly done.
That really is sustainable workmanship, reusing parts from s wrecked boat. Try to do that on nowadays plastic-boats. A fat compliment from my side
Great to see more stuff from Victoria being included. Hats off to Grand pa for his input. Great video…..my Friday is complete…..thanks
Your work inspires me. I can't wait to see her sail.
Thanks David, we can barely wait ourselves!
Wow! Your demonstrated skill set just keeps growing. So impressed with your tree climbing/trimming abilities.
@ Acorn To Arabella I'm not a sailing person or a carpenter, but have you considered a barn-door style set up? Sliding the wide door would consume less space when open. beatiful project you guys have going on. Thanks for sharing your hard work and passion. Best of luck to the team.
Dear Arabellas Acorns.
👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always (work and video).
Really good to see that all the old, beautiful things from Victoria get a new life respectively become useful again. That's definitely how it always should be done with anything. Not much waste/scrap but lot's of recycling. Our world is not longer able to deal with all the unneccessarily dumped waste.
As always: Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
So amazing to see this coming together and Victoria about to live on in Arabella!!
Such a great channel. Epic work guys. I learn so many things.
I’m constantly amazed at the skills you guys have, turning your hands to any job that comes your way.
Keep up the good works.
Thanks for watching Jonathan!
I don't know much about eastern hardwoods but there looks like some good firewood in this. Hats off to Grandpa I am 72 and things I once did, I just look at now and say I will watch. Sometimes that is hard.
Having the inventory of doors is a blessing.
Me too! Waiting for lunch, as usual...cheers rr Normandy
Respect to grandpa!
This boat is looking so pretty...
Just a little comment to say "thank you" for the amazing work you're sharing with us, and to please the algorithm! The mahogany looks wonderful against the cedar!
Thanks for taking the time, Francesco!
The door you put is very nice
I hope you got to build some parts with that wood. Great progress!
Loving the interior!
That was really an impressive video...From the tree to the bulkhead template .You have excellent skills.
Thanks, Richard! Hope your subscribed. We’ll see ya next Friday.
yes I am and have been viewing your channel since the start
So much good in this video..... Gramps, old doors, first bulkhead, tree... TREE????
Yay love you guys, followed for years!
Its been years 😁
It's always great to see Grandpa involved!
You guys have that sneaky hard-worker strength. Reminds me of the time I couldn't turn a stuck water shut-off valve. One of my neighbors is an old retired plant mechanic, had to have been in his mid 70s. He saw me struggling, throwing all my weight on this wrench, and he literally walks over and gives it a turn with his hand. I joked that I was loosening it for him, but the guy just had ludicrous strength. I bet shaking hands with Steve is like grabbing a rock
I say to slide the doors pocket style left and right barn door to
maximize space.
Very good arboring!
Excellent as always!
You might be short and skinny, Steve, but the power-to-weight ratio is unreal, mate.
Like an ant 🐜
@@mynameisrufusdude This made me actually lol. What a compliment!
Im Steve's size and work in large scale commercial concrete construction. High rises stadiums etc. Ive found strength isnt directly related to muscle size. Yeah they can lift more but strength and toughness goes to the lil guys for sure. I can do anything a 6' 250lbs guy can do on a jobsite minus counter weighting something.
Something awoke when Steve mocked that door from Victoria up in Arabella. The blending of two spirits into one. The marriage of the sun and the moon. :)
I like the choice of double door, It might be an idea to take a quarter inch off each side of each door. Which would gain some extra space.
Seeing you in the tree gives the perspective of how big that tree is. Well done.
Steve you are a beast...
What an Inspiration! Thank you and greetings from Austria!
Interesting method of sizing the bulkhead, we used to do it from the lofting drawing. Nice to see Victoria living on, she was a treasure trove!
I love hard work. I can watch someone else doing it all day! :)
Looking great keep rolling!
Stephen, you should get yourself a set of Jummar Ascenders. Put a sling ladder on the lower one and your saddle on the upper one. It makes climbing a rope/ledge that much easier since you use your legs for climbing the ladder and not your arms.
Okay, I spoke too soon and see that you have them. I'll hush-up my mug (if you fill up my jug with that good ol' mountain dew).
When moving the bulkhead up the stairs I noticed Steve was smart and allowed Grandpa to take most of the weight going up. 😁 Good on ya Grandpa 👍
The folding door looks like a nice fit. That is some sweet mahogany too !
Great views 👍🏼🥰
Amazing job! I look forward to every new video .
I remember watching as Victoria was being deconstructed and wondering how or if you’d remember where all the parts came from. It’s really interesting to watch now as you begin the process of constructing the interior spaces of Arabella.
Thanks for coming on this journey with us!
@@AcornToArabella it’s a Friday morning ritual that’s not to be missed.
I love the marrying of the two vessels. That bi-fold is awesome if it fits.
Yes the new video is online, was hoping so when I got home. 😍
Enjoy!
@@AcornToArabella I did, thanks. Can't wait till it's Friday again 😇
@@AcornToArabella is it Friday jet? 🤔
Nice work Robyn.
Very smooth smart work on the tree Steve! Really enjoy your journey with the creation of Arabella, never ever miss an episode. It would be a fistfight to decide which build is more enjoyable, Arabella or Tally Ho, both have their own unique vibe. Cheers!
In our newsletter we share other fantastic boat projects who put out regular videos. Hope you’re signed up for that, there’s more than two out here, and they deserve support. Happy Friday, thanks for watching!
Add the decayed schooner project 'Sailing Yaba' to your list if you might enjoy traditional Brazilian shipwrights hefting vast baulks of timber using simple tools and time proven techniques.
Carolyn will be back? That's nice!!
Toujours du très beau travail de charpentier marine !! Bravo ...A+
Damn Steve, using ascenders like a boss lol, not even using leg slings to stand up on, just beast climbing up that sucker lol.