Boat Decking: Hidden Under the King Plank -Episode 226 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

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Our wooden boatbuilding project is all about boat decking this week! King planks and covering boards are almost their own boat system within a boat system, if you were to take the whole boat deck and break it down into its parts and purposes. These important boat decking components both cover potentially sensitive or, perhaps better said, structurally important areas where hardware will be installed, and where water intrusion could mean trouble for everything just underneath it.

On this classic wooden sailboat, it will be so much easier to bolt in the custom bronze toe rail (or bulwark) supports before we lay the deck planking, Steve gets to welding up the beautiful brackets that Evan from MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts made for us with his CNC waterjet cutter.

Cheers to Sam for coming to help here at Acorn to Arabella! We appreciate his talents, his expertise, and his good humor. We look forward to seeing him again this coming spring as we get closer to the water and when it'll be all hands on deck!

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Acorn to Arabella is a wooden boatbuilding project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve started as an amateur boat builder building a 38' wooden boat in his backyard: designer William Atkin's Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel's gaff rig. These videos follow the journey of this DIY wooden boat, 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 he and the crew 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.

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