A Grizzly in the Boathouse - Episode 186 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

Steve is the 5th generation of his family to live at Pinetum Farm, and many of his tools are lovely hand-me-downs, but some are workhorses he bought at the start of the project for as much bang as he could get for the buck. Unfortunately, the Delta thickness planer has been complaining loudly lately, and boards take longer and longer to mill.

Enter the new thickness planer, which we race for time against the old Delta to get a rough calculation of how many hours we'll be saving for the rest of the milling that needs to get done. Spoiler alert: IT'S A LOT.

We need your help! Do you or does someone you know have the ability to work with stainless steel? We need a fabricator in New England to help. Steve outlines many of the details of that work starting at 13:12. Spread the word, ask around, let us know through the contact section of our website: acorntoarabella.com.

And finally, we get the navigation table and the quarter berth mocked up, meaning that we've rounded the corner of having the footprints of all the interior furniture decided. Our parting shots are of the glue-up for the navigation table, constructed of mahogany from Victoria.

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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 a 38' wooden boat in Steve's 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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