Sailing His Own Boat for the First Time - Episode 275 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

For information about our visit to Newburyport's Waterfront Park, please visit our website (link below) and click on the banner at the top of the page. Cheers!

Transiting the Cape Cod Canal is something that many New England sailors hold as an eventual "someday" thing when they first get started sailing. Sometimes the weather outside the Cape can be dicey. The Cape Cod Canal is an engineering marvel many years in the making, if you count all the preliminary surveys and even an earlier iteration of it many years ago.

It's an exciting place, meaning that the current rips through, and the time to transit either north or south is dependent upon the tide. Boats without engines can't transit the canal. Thank you so very much to Paul Jackman for coming out to follow us down the canal on his bike! Check out his work here:    / jackmanworks  

We can't thank the town of Bristol and TotalBoat enough for the mooring, services, and welcome we had while we were there. Cheers to you all! See ya in Newburyport!

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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.

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