![]() ![]() STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTINGĪlix Kreder videotapes from the upper level of the boat house during the "steaming in the frames" event for the Arabella on Saturday, September 22, 2018, in Granby. Behind them, under the tarp, is the 1926-1927 Victoria which served as a bunkhouse for some of the out-of-town volunteers and whose bronze fittings are tapped for a second life on the Arabella. The crew takes a break from steaming in the frames on the Arabella for a lunch that included gumbo made by chef-for-the-week Odie Tucker, standing, of New Orleans. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTINGīoat house, with plans for the Arabella. Volunteer Wes Craft, center, of Tennessee, Ross Cooper of Washington, D.C., below, and Joe Damon, right, were part of the "bend crew" installing frames in the Arabella on Saturday, September 22, 2018, in Granby. Steve Denette tends a wide-view video camera in the boat house after running the thickness planer on Tuesday, Sept. Videographer Alix Kreder streams activity on a "steaming in the frames" day for the Arabella on Saturday, September 22, 2018, in Granby. Joe Damon, left, of Westhampton and Bob Pappas of Florida hand a hot timber of white oak, fresh out of the steam box, up to other bend crew members inside the bow bending and installing them on the Arabella on Saturday, September 22, 2018, in Granby. ![]() These were then ripped to lengths of 2 1/2" square and on the following weekend 26 of them were steamed and bent to frame the shape of the hull of the Arabella. The thickness is brought down a little at a time until a flat, even dimension of 2 1/2" is reached. ![]() Steve Denette, third from left, and "bend crew" volunteers, from left, Ryan Maul of Colorado, Bob Pappas of Florida and Ross Cooper of Washington D.C., run planks of white oak through a thickness planer on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, in Granby. The lumber would eventually be brought down to a thickness of 2 1/2" then ripped to create 2 1/2" square frames to be steamed and bent into the hull of the Arabella. Volunteer Bob Pappas, left, of Florida, helps Steve Denette load a plank of white oak through a planer on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, in Granby. Ryan Maul, left, of Colorado and Joe Damon of Westhampton bend and clamp a white oak frame, softened but still hot from the steam box, into the hull of the Arabella. Steve Denette, left, and his crew take a break for lunch during a day of steaming, bending and installing frames for the Arabella, taking shape in the boathouse at right.Īlix Kreder edits one of the videos he posts every other Friday for the Acorn to Arabella project he and Steve Denette are undertaking in Granby. Ryan Maul of Colorado adds wood to the fire box during a “steaming in the frames” weekend in September. Plans for the Arabella are posted just below a part pulled from the 1926-1927 Victoria sailboat which Denette and Kreder purchased “for a song.” Its bronze components will see a second life when installed on the Arabella.ĭenette and Kreder fashion their own fasteners from copper and silicone bronze to avoid galvanic corrosion. It was his second time helping out with the project. Ryan Maul of Colorado monitors the steam box during a day of steaming and bending frames for the Arabella. Steve Denette, above, and volunteer Wes Craft of Tennessee bend and install a steam-softened frame into the hull of the Arabella. ![]() Volunteers Bob Pappas, left, of Florida, Ryan Maul of Colorado and Ross Cooper of Washington D.C., stack planks of rough-milled white oak after running it through a thickness planer. Steve Denette, left, and a crew of volunteers work inside the boat house in mid-September trimming planks of rough-milled white oak for the all-wood Arabella. Alix Kreder, right, videotapes Steve Denette, in boat, at right, and volunteer Wes Craft of Tennessee, just behind him, as they persuade a momentarily pliable steam-bent frame into place on the hull of the Arabella. ![]()
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