Installing the Water Tanks - Episode 202 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

Last call for this very important fundraiser: https://www.bonfire.com/the-a2a-community-crest/ Only a couple of days left, and it's crucial to the coming year and the work we need to do to prepare for launch. Thank you for your support! The water tanks have been fetched from MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where our talented metal worker, Evan, put together four water tanks for us. Three of them are storage, and one of them is a pickup tank into which will feed water from the various other tanks via ball valves. They'll be filled from a water maker which we'll be installing much later, but that will live in the head. The tanks total 94.9 gallons according to our friendly neighborhood naval architect and water tank spiritual advisor, Satchel Douglas. As Steve explains, the pickup tank that will live in the bilge is exactly 9 gallons, and beside the fact that it will allow us to isolate water tanks and balance the water use so as to balance the loaded weight in the boat, it has an added benefit as it can act as a way of measuring daily water usage. The water tanks are held in place with NRS straps, which shouldn't see too much movement (read: opportunity for chafe) as tie-downs inside the lockers. Steve deploys all kinds of other hardware and wooden supports to hold the tanks into place as well, and goes into a good level of detail on that. Thank you so much for watching and for your support. Don't forget to grab your A2A Community Crest gear before it's gone! https://www.bonfire.com/the-a2a-community-crest/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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