Looking amazing. Wish I would have known, we have a big house up by Franconia with extra space if you need a place to crash. Right near Med

Great editing. Every week seems like new milestones. Can’t wait till tomorrow so I am watching this one again

De-stressing: Shouldn't the bronze floors be destressed after welding? Welding the bronze (metal generically) introduces stresses that can fracture. I've sure seen it in my extensive steel welding experience. I've welded a bit of bronze too, but I've never welded anything that absolutely couldn't fail, so I've never destressed my work after welding. Don't want 3 floors in row cracking during a storm in the North Atlantic.

A clean bilge is a happy bilge! No way I could have left it such a mess for so long!

Thanks for posting and sharing. The bilge looks great all vacuumed out. Very nice to hear about the upcoming weekend off.

I just wanted to stop and say, out of the 4 different boat build channels i've been watching, THIS is the only one I don't get frustrated with. You guys have kept everything going and still feel like you are true to your original purpose. Thank you for this content, and I cannot wait to see launch of this beautiful boat.

Awesome job guys she is really coming along

I denied myself for 2 weeks so I could binge, well binge as much as I could with 2 episodes. Awesome guys. A pleasure watching you do your thing. Thank you

The dog’s howling doesn’t seem right. I’m sure you guys have a good reason for not letting the dog In with you, but it’s only natural for dogs to want to be with their masters. This is true especially when it’s cold.

Brass gets brittle when you heat and beet it, Brass gets soft when you heat and quench it. Its the upset of Steel.

i know the bilge is done (at the moment) but i am concerned about where the planks and the bilge meet. will that be covered or will that always have water?

An army marches on their stomachs :)

Arabella was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet . (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Great stuff. So good to see you guys working together and exchanging thoughts and ideas. Always good but this was rather nice! Thanks, as ever

bronze and brass contain a lot of copper and this means that heat and hammering causes work hardening. cooling it rapidly in water will make it soft again. the opposite of tempering steel.

A Masterpiece !!!

Triple screen!

Still a lot to do. But it’s coming together

A clean bilge looks great...

*- Lots of steps. Lots and lots of work. But you are getting there.* *- Hope you ski Cannon Mt. and try out the expert labeled Zoomer trail.* *- Nowadays most folks don't ski it right and it will be full of moguls because no one can/will sky it fast enough.* *- If the 10th Mountain Division is training there on "Ice Mountain", please say hi for me, and ask if the locals are still skiing with them to help with their learning how to properly do "Eggbeater Falls".*

Try laying hammer on the bronze after heating it up and strike the hammer not the bronze directly and allow you to create the flat section on the bronze rod

4:15 "I'm going to heat this up, While he pounds. We're gonna upset the tip. Put it in there. And see if we can form a finhead"

Someone please, send some Acorn nuts to Acorn to Arabella! Protruding threads give so many of us watchers the heebeegeebees! Kind regards from the UK 👍

Hi guys! What microphones do you use?

Não vejo a hora desse barco começar a navegar, estou ansioso esperando esse momento.

Really appreciate the time taken to detail the filming and the dedication to getting it right. Keep it up you guys, sterling job.

quick question, not sure it's been asked already - just spent some 'quality' time removing slotted head wood screws out of an old bench. I tend to avoid slotted screws in favour for phillips head or square head deck screws (as appropriate). Just wondering why you are using slotted screws? i.e. what am I missing?

You guys should get more help

With regard to the tiller it will have to go under the traveler for the mizen sheet unless you build an aft sprit. Also you do not want the tiller to invade the cockpit too much. Maybe 6 inches to a foot otherwise all that space in the cockpit is lost.

In ten years the planking will be done maybe. I saw that Sampson guy and wow that’s a boatbuilder that knows his stuff.

Well done says I to the editing and sound guy

Bonjour Alix and Stephen, Question, why do you use paint ? Epoxy, even without fiber glass would not be better in terms of strength and durabilité ? Besides this, bonnes vacances Amicalement Raphaël

Firstly you should be heating up all the steel or metal that will be coming into contact with the brass rods your trying to heat, that means the vice jaws or whatever your clamping it with and also any tongs etc your gonna use to hold the rod. Getting stuff to the right temp and keeping it there while you manipulate the metal is key and you guys clearly already know that so good luck boys. Love this channel and the Arabella is gonna be beautiful.

She's looking real pretty. great job.

If you oil your vice threads you'll get more squeeze for your buck.

YOu haven't made thin head bolts before this????

I have missed the Dolphinite so much, I had to buys a can and start spreading it on my English Muffins! UMM great with coffee!

You are building a fine piece of furniture and thats not a dig.

Don't know why, but I got unsubscibed. Yt has gone WAY downhill.

So how do you test those fin head bolts, after you make them, to make sure they are reliable and haven't turned brittle and will snap off after they get exposed to cycling loads at sea? They don't look like they would be an easy thing to replace if they fail.

you guys are master boat builders ,, great show CHEERS

POV: You came to the comments to see all the amateur blacksmiths commenting.

Will you be able to bring a crew back in to speed up production? We re all not getting any younger ! Haha

If you are looking for different meats to exchange, there must be somewhere in the US that stocks Australia's national symbol, Kangaroo. If you like venison and such "game" meats it is worth a try. Low in fat, tasty, best served med rare to rare. 40 thousand years of use by Australia's first nations people points to it having some merit as a food source. Emu, Camel and Crocodile are worth a look too. Cheers Eric

Torch : the highest temparature inreached at the top of the flame

Those oval portholes in the fore-end of the house need to have eyebrows and eyelashes painted on them, don't they? Reminds me of the eyes on Jason's ship the Argo, or a ship that Odysseus might have sailed in. At 14:00.

Great video again ! Could you tell the viewers a little more about the “how” and “what”. Fore example: What stuff do you dip the srews in, before you put them in place? Doesn’t look like dolphinite - or is it?

All those studs and threaded rods sticking out everywhere make me cringe!

I was just wondering why you do not use a electric impact gun to tighten all the nuts that you tighten with a ratchet wrench

how often do you forget to remove the cover from the license plate?

Meat share? Be vegan instead, it'll help you live to 200. :)

1+ on the production upgrade.

Every next little piece! Look how far you’ve come! Thanks fellas

"6 more floors to go"? Must be a tall ship. Just meant as a poor layperson's joke. Keep up the nice work.

That's probably the cleanest and sweetest smelling the bilge will ever be. Just install a catch pan under the engine and you'll only have to deal with stinky sea water! 8P

Banging metal on metal while I see your neighbors house in the background...Very neighborly....sure they love you while you build a vehicle on private property for commercial gain. Is there a zoning issue here?

This whole build has been captivating and now seeing the house mockup fitted is so cool (no pun intended for the snow)

Steve is allergic to hot peppers?!? Oh you poor soul! That's going to complicate traveling around the world...

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This boats a tank. They just don't build them like this anymore unless you have a lot of disposable cash. Beautiful project I've been watching for quit a while.

It's nice to have You two, back working together.

150 episodes! (Plus special videos) You guys should be very proud of the work you share with us!

seems like you fellers need to invest in a SERIOUS, OLD OLD OLD Heavy Bench Vice....... ??? to stop the SLIPPING of the brass rod, when being BANG-BANG-BANG'd......??? just a shade tree diy-er viewpoint.... Jim in JAX, FL (COLD and rainy here right now !!!!!)

You folks have created the best community.

All I will say about having a forge is that a box of fire brick is $35 for six on Amazon and that you already have a weed burner. Or you could make a burner assembly out of plumbing parts.

How long before you get back to planking?

You guys look to be using a welding tip on that torch. A rose bud tip is specifically made to heat things and will work faster. This allows you to get more heat into an area without it soaking into the rest of the part as much. A cutting head would be better too but rose bud is where it’s at.

I aint much of a smith but you gotta get some shade to see what you are doing.

You need to add more oxygen to your flame to gain enough heat. In general terms to gain optimum heat keep adding oxygen until the central blue cone stops shrinking. At the point that you show when working the flame you probably have only 50% of the heat potential and there will be a black carbon deposit left on the steel from the excess acetylene in the flame. You also dont have your steel hot enough when you are working it. As a rule of thumb it needs to be a cheery red before you start to work it.

The fastening details you are adding for strength are so thoughtful in that they hold the wood from both directions.

Was the fist music played Morning Dew?

Steve to Alex "Watch my hand" Steve allergic to peppers how sad.

There's something so satisfying seeing all of the sawdust out of the bilge.

With the bronz if you enell it will make it softer

I really can't wait to see her get in the water. Keep up the great work.

Looking lovely boys

Nice episode- new camera for some of the shots of the hammer work on the fin head bolts???

the blue engine surrounded by the woodworking looks amazing

hold fast...winter is drawing to an end. Spring around the corner.

Hi - I'm probably more stingy than you and I love to make my own stuff to beat the System, but I must say I would have called the Schooner Chandlery and bought 2 fin head bolts rather than trying to make my own experimentally. They come in 1/2 or 3/8 dia x up to 24 in for about $40 - 80. They are forged in ASME sil-brnz and threaded to your specs. Ships in 2/3 days. Just my own opinion. I'm glad to hear Akiva is back on the soundtrack. Boats' looking real fine. Thanks for the video.

great video lads, the mock up is making her look the beauty she will be...cant wait to see some sailing vids in the ffuture

Is there a boat-building equivalent for sitting in your shell of a project car making vroom-vroom noises? That's the stage Arabella is at. Great video!!

I know I'm jumping the gun a bit, but are you guys planning any decorative carving or figureheads?

The white cone of your flame was too long, try and keep the cone as small as possible .👍

15 min of hitting a piece of brass that’s what yall got done in a week? How long are these videos behind time

Hi Guys im sure Leo has a post on making finheads

14:09 - Bella has eyes now!

Going to New Hampshire, must be nice to be able to leave your own area. In Canada we are not supposed to leave our area, our lock down rules are different here. Anyway another great video and I agree with some of the posts, use more oxygen to make a very short blue flame. How many cordless drill motors have you guys gone through? It seems you use them every week,\.

Coffee, a petite pipe, fire in the woodstove, and Steve and Alix for companionship. What could be more pleasant?

just use a leaf blower after the big stuff is picked up

Love Steve’s boots

Crappy idea maybe, but would you guys be interested in having this journey on DVD/BluRay? Thinking back to the very start, all the videos on physical DVD's or BluRays. Each one an episode etc. I know I for one would be happy to buy them. (would need to work in region 4 but 😒)

Ahhh, the Howl of the House Wolf is back.......

My weekend always starts at the moment you post your weekly Episode! I kick back, get a glass of wine and start smelling the wood shavings from your barn!

Might be a lot simpler if you drilled and tapped a hole in bronze plate and threaded the rod then peened the end into a large chamfer. Use some red lock-tight in the treads. Turned the plate round in the lathe and, wa-la.

Love this intro, best yet and I hope it hangs around for a while.

saw on ebay that the Tally Ho was for sale, know it is not your boat, but its wooden and would hate to see it not completed. May some of your viewers or yourself may be able to save it.

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Watching Steve clean. I have never understood how you can take a piece of wood, cut it how you want it and still wind up with moor sawdust and wood combined. It is like cleaning up after horses, they can take 10 pounds of hay and make 15 pounds of manure

A lot of little pieces make for 1 BIG project but like you said earlier, one bite at a time. Were you planning on leaving any small "valleys" throughout the boat for wire runs? I know you're planning minimal wiring but I'd hate to see an ugly hole drilled through all that beautiful woodwork. Speaking from a marine electrician's point of view. Nav lights, pumps etc.