Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 62: Fitting the Engine Beds

We pushed really hard to get the bronze floors finished up so they could be sitting in their places during the open house. In this episode we show how we got the floors ready to start fabricating the supports for the engine beds. Since everything fits in such a small space here and has to be fairly precise, we had to work on fabricating the floors while working wit the actual engine beds we are going to install. We therefore worked on each piece simultaneously to end up with a perfect fit. The stern floors are so much higher in order to be at an appropriate height to accommodate and support the engine which also meant very large wings up the frames. If the ones down the rest of the center line took a while, these were that much more time consuming again! To put the correct twist and bend in a piece of bronze strapping one half inch thick by twenty four inches in length on a small A-frame press was challenging to say the least! Thank you for following along and supporting our endeavor and we would like to thank everyone that came to our Open House! We had a blast! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acorn to Arabella wishlist: http://www.acorntoarabella.com/acorn-to-arabella-wishlist Total Boat referral code: http://totalboat.refr.cc/steveandalixa?t=tg 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