Victoria's Mast - Episode 153 - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

The bronze floors are done! It's a great feeling complete them and be able to move on to even more tasks that get us closer to launch.
Steve keeps on with fitting the main's mast step, and Alix gets to work on figuring out the reuse of Victoria's spars. You may remember from previous videos, just a couple years into the project, that Steve and Alix purchased another Atkin-designed boat, Victoria. She was in rough shape and there wasn't any interest out there to restore her. It was most likely that she was going to get stripped of her parts, which would have been parceled out to the highest bidders before she got cut up—a practical-but-sad end to a beautiful and storied boat.
Instead, we brought her to Granby, MA, where we carefully dismantled her with intentions of reusing as much of her materials as possible as we build Arabella. Now comes one of the big moments in that process: her solid fir mast will likely become Arabella's mizzen (the aft, shorter mast) but first, Alix needs to strip its parts, make sure the material is sound, and then reshape it to the correct size.

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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38' wooden boat in their 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.

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