A Visit Aboard Calypso - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

Here's the rest of the conversation. We broadcast an earlier live video- https://youtu.be/uZkFNjgkezQ - in which you can see Anne's friend Nica making fantastic soup and sandwiches aboard Calypso in Spa Creek. After that, we had a nice conversation with her and Jeremy. It was a welcome respite from the crowded Annapolis Sailboat Show, as we were floating there on the mooring. Topics we meander through: Small cockpit? What small cockpit? These experienced cruisers talk about their preference for a tiller. Why is weather helm a good thing? Self steering! Using a tablet for chart plotter, GPS, route planning, and AIS receiving. Lexan hatch boards. Check out Jeremy's weather routing software, Fastseas, here: https://fastseas.com/ Nica has been blogging about food, cruising, and living aboard for a long time, and it's a treat to read. See her work here: https://www.fit2sail.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for our email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hn3Qyv 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested in supporting/helping here are a few ways: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/how-to-help Acorn to Arabella's wishlist: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/wishlistpriority TotalBoat Referral: Need something TotalBoat sells? They'll send us 10% of your purchase to support our videos! Click here, then shop: https://www.totalboat.com/acorntoarabella To offer recurring support via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella Original Soundtrack available at benfundis.bandcamp.com FOLLOW US: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acorntoarabella/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acorntoarabella Website: http://www.acorntoarabella.com