From Acorn To Arabella.
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A friend in need is a friend indeed—especially if your friend is also on a wooden boat! This week’s episode opens with Steve tendering out to the Schooner Hindu, where his friend Josh and his crew are happy to borrow Steve’s stern anchor and a few extra feet of line while they wait out a blow.
Warmer weather is calling, but Steve and Robin (and even Akiva) can’t forego the opportunity to take a few American Sailing Association (ASA) certification classes with Captain Scott from Bow to Stern Boating. It’s cold—some might even say TOO cold for man overboard drills—but they get through it, and successfully retrieve “Bob” using a variety of different techniques.
The ASA certification courses, along with the opportunity to handle sailboats other than Arabella, was incredibly helpful in developing Robin’s skill set and confidence. We highly recommend Bow to Stern Boating for your ASA certification course, your next charter, or just to have some fun sailing on the Neuse.
While Steve won’t leave Oriental with a shrimp tour under his belts, he and Robin will both leave with their ASA 101 and ASA 103 certifications—and with an inch of ice in the harbor!
Robin escapes to Florida for a work thing, and Annie B. and Jack are granted permission to come aboard. First stop with Annie B. and Jack is Beaufort, but just for a night. The crew needs to keep moving, and the weather forecast—which they gathered using a few different tools, like PredictWind and NOAA—looks good enough, and everyone feels comfortable making a run south to Charleston.
Steve explains the anchoring process–with the storm coming in, he wants to make sure their anchor is picture-perfectly set.
Stay tuned next week, as the journey south continues. There’s warm weather somewhere, and they’re going to find it!
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Acorn to Arabella started as a wooden boat building project in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve began the journey as an amateur wooden boat builder crafting 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 now sailing the boat—sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that traditional wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project continues beyond the boat shop, as Steve and crew 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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