Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 94: Gathering Oak Rootstock

Welcome back and Happy New Year! We've been working on Arabella for four years now. We cut the first tree in January of 2016 and it has been a wild ride since then! There have been plenty of challenges along the way. We look forward to solving these challenges every time but it also takes a lot of energy... so this past year we decided to take a little bit more time to ourselves to try to recharge the batteries. Keira and Alix took a trip to Paris to visit Alix's family and Steve took the week to relax in the woods while hunting (nope, didn't get much). After returning we decided to look a step ahead and harvest some root stock for some grown knees. This would provide the wood we harvest the time to season properly before being installed in Arabella down the road when they are needed. Knees are supports that connect the frames to the deck beams and have to be very sturdy. They often are made from Hackmatack or Tamarack as these usually grow in bogs and form long buttresses in their root stock. We don't have any of those growing around here so we decided to try to see what we can find out of white oaks growing on the property, which we need to harvest anyways. Quite the adventure... to say the least! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jamestown Distributors Referral: If you are going to shop at Jamestown Distributors, please consider using our 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