Retrofitting 100 Year Old Lights for LED - Episode 253 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

Join and get the latest Live from the Boat Shed for just $5/mo on Patreon. $15/mo and above gets you instant access to over 25 hours of the Live Archive. https://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella We're excited and thankful to have remote filtration by Keenan Filters for Arabella's diesel engine! https://www.keenanfilters.com/ The dual Racor-type filters make it possible to keep the diesel engine running while switching tanks, switching filters, troubleshooting diesel problems, and we can even polish our diesel fuel. Steve unboxes this wonderful piece of equipment and talks about it at length. KP explains the different types of LED lights that work with the fittings inside Victoria's light fixtures. Since LEDs politely sip energy, and require DC electricity to work, they're perfect for boats. Finding LEDs that play well with existing light fixtures is easy, as they come in festoon, single and double contact bayonet, and other types of connectors that are already on boats. No need to retrofit anything new into the boat except for the compatible lights themselves. But we start out with a visit. Joe the Machinist has had a hunk of cherry wood in his barn for the last 15 years that belongs to his older brother, Roland. As Steve prepares to make grab rails for the interior that run all along the inside of the cabin trunk. For that, we'll need substantial pieces, and this will do quite nicely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for our email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hn3Qyv Acorn to Arabella is a wooden boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur wooden boat builder building a 38' wooden sailboat in his 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 classic wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY boatbuilding project will continue well past launch, when he and the crew will travel and learn to cruise aboard the handmade wooden 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: Please consider using our Total Boat referral code—they 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, CLICK BELOW. Just $5 a month gets you an invite to our monthly patron-only livestream Q&A sessions! 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