Serve and Protect, Prepping the Shrouds - Episode 242 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

THE LAST DAY you can get domestic shipping on time in the US is December 19, and we're a tiny operation here. If you want to support us while giving a gift, visit here: https://www.acorntoarabella.com/merchandise Next week is December's Live from the Boat Shed. $5/mo on Patreon gets you an invite! https://www.patreon.com/acorntoarabella An abovedecks extravaganza of important projects hurtling toward completion. Lots of progress this week, friends. Roll up your sleeves, let's dig in to making the square wooden spar round and about the galvanized shrouds for this wooden sailboat. Keith Mitchell from Shipwright Skills takes a long walk by way of a lot of passes up and down the mast. Many cuts are needed to achieve the ever-smaller facets that progress to the final round shape. The wooden mast is made octagonal, then 16-sided, then 32-sided... then laboriously sanded to round. Steve explains why we've chosen galvanized standing rigging for the shrouds. Arabella's forestay will be of stainless steel, as it needs to stand up to a furler's foil moving around it, but everything else will be parceled, served, then sloshed galvanized wire. Eyesplices captured top and bottom (top over a special piece of hardware, and bottom attached to deadeyes). We'll also check in with KP for a hot minute for the detail being routed into the overhead of the coach roof. Happy Friday! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 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, 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