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The boathouse is a wooden framework covered in plastic. They had not bothered to seek a building permit. Soon after building the boathouse, a building inspector came by to inform them that it was an illegal structure. Progress is still quite slow as they have faced many obstacles along the way. At least now it really looks like a real boat but for years it seemed like progress was moving at a snails pace. Today the basic frame of the boat is completed and they have begun planking the exterior and are approximately 30% up the side of the boat. Pouring the keel was the first visible step that they were actually building a boat. Note that the YouTube channel opened in April 2016 and here we were some 20 months later and all they had to show for their efforts was a ramshackle boathouse they had built in their front yard and a large pile of milled lumber in the backyard. It was the story of how they melted 4.5 tons of lead and poured the keel of this 38 foot wooden sailboat. I discovered the channel in January 2018 when the video below went viral with 2.5 million views and begin trending on YouTube. It will have a stove, refrigerator, and bathroom facilities. of sail and the frame is built out of white oak with planking made of white oak and white cedar. It measures 37’6″ on deck with a 32 foot waterline. It will displace 25,000 pounds and has berths for up to 5 people however it can be sailed single handed. Archer designs were used primarily for fishing vessels on the North Sea and polar expeditions. The Arabella is a double ended ketch designed in 1934 by William Atkin inspired by the work of Colin Archer who was a famous Scottish naval architect and shipbuilder from Larvik Norway. Alix built the website, purchased video equipment, establish themselves on Patreon and the project was underway. In 2015 after much research they decided on the design for the boat and purchased plans to build it in 2016. In 2014 he began harvesting trees and milling the lumber. According to this timeline on the website he began studying boatbuilding from books in 2011. Although the YouTube channel started in April 2016, there had been years of planning and preparation prior to this. With a little help from Stephen’s grandfather and moral support from their trusty dog Akiva the two set out to take on this enormous project.

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Although he had studied photography in college he had never worked as a professional photographer and had not worked in video prior to taking on this project. He also quit his job, left his girlfriend, and moved from Maine to Massachusetts to be the videographer for this project. If you think Stephen is crazy, his partner in the project Alix is close behind. But eventually quit his job to devote full-time to the boatbuilding project.

Initially he only worked on the projects evenings and weekends while maintaining a full-time job. The oak trees of course originated from an acorn. The title of the channel refers to the fact that some of the trees they are using to build the boat were actually planted by his family generations ago. He would harvest the wood from the family property, mill it himself using borrowed or rented sawmills, and would be built using some tools handed down to him from his great-great-grandfather. The property is several acres of woods including white oak and pine. It would be built in the front yard of his family’s property where he grew up with three generations of his family members. The boat was to be built in rural western Massachusetts more than 100 miles from the ocean. Many people thought that Stephen was crazy for taking on such a project. On Aphe and his friend Alix Kreder uploaded their first video to a channel called “ Acorn to Arabella“. He had only minimal savings and no way to fund his project.

He’s never been on a sailboat let alone sail one himself.

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He knew nothing about how to build a boat. There were some problems he had to overcome however. He wanted to build a boat and sail it around the world.

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