Your logic and reasoning with how and why you chose to build the stem makes perfect sense to me. Excellent Job Bob....congrats on quite the milestone of planking and fairing the planks.

Long live Victoria!😊

"Fortunately, for me, it's a good day when you have a reason to buy new tools" ....the line of the century.....I know that feeling....

Thanks for responding to questions. Patience prevails - as always.

... And remember, when you make it, make it beautiful! (like your video's too, I love the quiet and almost meditative pace, it is a nice counterpoint to the increasingly energetic and busy video's on the building of Arabella)

“ its a good day when you have a good reason to buy new tools” my sentiments entirely.

„I have too many clamps“ - no woodworker/boatbuilder ever said. Victoria will get a nice tender. Thank you for the explanation, initially I also thought Victoria will have visible planks. Painting makes sense, it is not a show boat but a working tender. Can‘t wait for the next episode.

I think it’s a good day when I have even a sketchy reason to buy a new tool. Well said, Bob, and thanks for the fantastic content.

He who passes with the most clamps WINS!

Always a good day to by new tools! You never have enough clamps!;)

Beautiful work Bob. The Q&A segment you made to answer several questions from the viewers was thoughtful and appreciated as well as how you explain details in your build. Well done and Thanks for sharing.

At 85 pounds it should be quite easy for one person to bring her aboard. Yes a clear finish would be beautiful but I understand the reasons for paint. With glass inside and out she will be quite rugged I should think. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

Any new woodworking job always takes at least 2 more clamps than you have

This is a gorgeous boat!! More whiskey Bob!!

Nice to see you've got to the stage where you need to sweep up all the time. 😀👍

After watching you build this dinghy. I'm moving around the workshop so I can have room to build one.

Thank you for let us following the process of making a beautiful dingy using recirculated wood from Victoria!

Thanks Bob. I’d seen Lou do the diagonal planing but never fully understood the reason until you explained it! Great video as always.

Long live Victory. I enjoy how you explain why you do things the way you did in response to the viewers.

Blanton's! Excellent choice! Now that you mention it, I think I'll have one as well.

Congratulations Bob!!! I have also my whisky here to celebrate!! greatings from Spain!!!

Looking good Bob. I commend both you and Steve for staying away from a bright finished hull. I think a lot of people would enjoy the strip planking method more if they did't have the anxiety of a bright finished result hanging over their head. Maintenance is easier too. I've had countless bright finished strip built canoes presented to me for repairs that were suffering from terminal epoxy and glass UV degradation due to varnish breaking down and not being refreshed in a timely manner. Getting caught out by the stem and cutwater width issue is an easy pitfall to find oneself in. It's not exactly intuitive. I personally always detail those elements out in my lofting process to avoid that mishap but only because I have found myself in the same shoes as yourself. I also sometimes fabricate the stem and cutwater separately due to the different material width requirements. Enjoy your impending date with the misery board Bob.

No need to hit the gym after fairing. Quite satisfying to see the results of planning and worth the effort. Beautiful work!

Very nice job on the planking Bob, she looks nice and fair with only a few touches needed to my eye. Thank you for explaining your thoughts on the construction method you are using.

Nice call on the Blanton's.

Thanks for your masterly classes of boat building. I´m an 70 years old amateur carpenter, and admire all your works.

It's a shame you can't finish the hull bright. It would be STUNNING! But, oh, the maintenance. And the fragility.

Sure enjoy your boat building channel. . Thank you. From Missouri

Bonjour monsieur Bob.... J'habite en France à Paris. Je suis un vieux monsieur qui vous a découvert aux travers de vidéos Acorn to Arabella que je suis depuis le début. Félicitations pour votre travail que j'admire. Je suis un modéliste de bateaux et j'attends toutes les semaines votre travail. Vous êtes un professeur.... Bien amicalement

Can I subscribe like 100,000 times? You are literally doing exactly what I wish I could do. Thank you for showing us all the beautiful details of your craftsmanship.

Love it love it!

You have a lot more patience with comments/suggestions than I do. It's your project. You're not building a battleship and you are working for someone else. The liability rests solely on you. Like I tell my yt subscribers, "It'll work." I'd be thrilled to sail that little dinghy. Thank you for bringing us along.

Hi Bob, I joined you in the whisky plank for your last project. It seems to me that you are enjoying a dram from the same bottle. I commend3 you o your temperance. I wish I had your fortitude. Great videos.

Thank you so much for an excellent journey with you building Victoria. You are a great craftsman and teacher!

Beautiful! Wonderful to watch a master at his craft.

Thank you for the extra explenation about the strip planning. Everything makes sense! 😊

wow these 30 minutes went by in a minute. really impressive work and for sure not as easy as you make it look like, with your skills and experience.

Bob, I have seen a lot of hulls planked over the years. I am planning on building a cedar strip canoe in the next year. Looking at Victoria's hull after your installation of the Whisky Plank, (arial view) the wood layout is artistic and beautiful ! What a unique pattern you have created with this small tender. I am sure that Steve is following along too. He is under so much stress not only with the time line marching down on launch day, but also with his mom. I just hope that she is around to see Arabella in the water. May God bless them both in these trying times. You, on the other hand, are a cool cucumber! Never rattled and showing us the "Art of Boatbuilding". Methodical and steady. Habits and methods that we all should heed and learn from. I get too "antsy" at times. Haste makes waste. I am a loyal watcher and fan. I can learn a LOT from watching you. Excellent craftsmanship and you are a good instructor ! !

Bob, I’m always enjoy the challenge of thinking about why you build the way you do, the steps you take to resolve problems or to tweak a design. I especially like tying to solve or pre answer my questions before you answer them for me or your wider audience. Sir, you have a gift of passing knowledge on, I would have loved to watch you do sculptures in years gone by, it would have been a fantastic journey to watch an artist explain what and why they did something. For us non artist mortals, you are an inspiration.

Been watching your channel since learning about it on A2A….marvelous woodworking and teaching skills.

It's coming out gorgeously. A well crafted vessel.

That is a beautiful form; like a sort of a natural pod like a cacao or a coffee or a coo-coo pod...

most excellent, Bob.

Congratulations, and thanks for the lucid explanation of the stem construction.👍

Outstanding Bob.

Absolutely magnificent! What a beautiful little boat!

Some 25 years ago I was helping a friend build a CLC kayak kit and he referred to it as his "$20 a day kayak habit..." as he was constantly buying tools for the project - mostly clamps. You never have enough clamps...

Nice choice for your ‘bourbon plank’!

Great Video !

Little early for me to be drinking with you Bob. But, Congratulations!,

Great work. This is art

« a good day is a day when you have to buy new tools » Love it! ❤

What a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. The hull shape is so pleasing.

Thanks for the video

Just very nice work... 🙂👍

Beautiful work Bob, you are a true master..

At this sealing class I had at this place I used to work... They said whenever you apply cement or glue or bonding agent always rub it into the surface and it will hold twice as good... Rather than just laying it on there and then assembling

Nice work Bob! 😊

I wait for your next build with much anticipation❤

Thanks

Thanks.

Blantons for the whiskey plank? Yes please!

Да , кропотливая работа и очень тщательная ! Делал модель Bounty ,жена смеялась ,когда я клинья на борта вытачивал 0,5/25mm !Швербот , конечно другое ,но представление имею .Мои поздравления ,работа превосходная !!! GL!

strip planking allows for a lot of lovely options. Looking good Bob!!

I'm enjoying your posts on this build. 👍

Any excuse for new tools is good... Victoria sure is nicer than the bookcase I am making for my grandson.

Excellent Job

Professional as always Bob. Very nice to see you reusing the cedar planking strips from Victoria. I'm sure Steve will be very impressed with your boatbuilding efforts on his behalf. I'm crossing my figures hoping Steve and his crew will meet their deadline for A2A. Even with the help of many friends It's going to be very close call. Obviously Steve now realizes there's a very big big difference between building a house and building a boat!

I love woodworking, but I can't imagine having to plan out camera angles and what I am going to say while I am doing each step. Keep up the great work. I look forward to next week. Stay encouraged.

What a beautiful piece of workmanship Bob, well done, the high view at 17.00 really shows what an interesting way all the strips fit together. I am not a boat builder or sailor but fully appreciate the skill and experience which you portray and loved the little trick of the way you stopped the pointed ends of the planks popping up. Such a relaxing half hour just to watch you at work and explaining everything you were doing. Many thanks from the UK.

Just incredible! Nice to see you with the Bosch brand tool. The smoothest trigger and drill action I own. Thank you for sharing your talents.

Bob she is truly beautiful it's such a shame that all that beautiful work is ultimately going to be hidden, so good that you and Steve have a record of how she was built and it has been so interesting to see her come together, really looking for ward to seeing how you finish her off and make her beautiful.

It would be interesting to see a boat built by those that so freely question your methods. That being said it is most often instructional to ask why or why not a certain method is chosen.

I thought the shutter plank was planned out to be the easiest plank on the hull.Yours looked a bit less then that.Nice work. Can’t wait till mine is done.Thanks for the offsets and various other info that made it possible for me to construct my own “Victoria”.

It has been such fun watching you build boats. It's early for me to celebrate the whisky plank with you. But it gives me time to source your brand. Great episode. I've watched it again right away, and have had it paused at 30:30 for sometime. Very nice lines.

That is a very fine looking little boat. Sweet lines!

Congrats👍

Nice work, sir. You know how to make it easier three steps from what you are currently doing. Planning makes it painless!.... sometimes

Looks great, Bob! Thanks for sharing the details.

Blanton's. Nice

Great Stuff, Bob. I am enjoying following along from the UK.

And what a beautiful boat she’s turning into. 🇨🇦

Absolutely wonderful! While I understand where a painted surface is easier to maintain it is a shame your beautiful woodwork will be covered up. Congratulation on reaching the Whiskey Plank milestone!!

Loving it !

4/23. Don't know if I have missed you in the last few weeks or what. I trust that you are well.

Great stuff! The speed of these boats is incredible. Very exciting.

What a calming, Zen like video. And a fine choice of whisky for the celebration Bob. Thank you for bringing us along.

8:35 - ah yes. There's never too many clamps. :D

Sand bags or bags of lead shot or ball bearings all make a good third hand while you clamp up. Love your work, beautiful stuff that is far beyond my persistence level.

Awesome boat and great instruction! I build a stick and glue dingy once but have always wanted to build a wooded sailing boat like this. Thank you for these great videos! What an inspiration!

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful.

Beautiful work, I love the look of the wood. I watch A2A as well and understand where Steve is coming from painting it, I’ve done my share of brightwork, and I don’t envy people who have to do a lot of it. That said, it would be amazing to see the beautiful wood pattern when finished, glad to get to enjoy watching you build it. Cheers from Evanston!

Great work as always Bob! Really liked hearing you address some comments and walk us through your decision making a bit. Now to patiently wait for the next one

She's coming along quite nicely. Great work, Bob. Because of this and other similar channels, I've made the decision to build my own dinghy and purchased plans. It'll be a goeller 12 footer. Now I just have to build a workshop to build her in.

Nice work Bob. Thank you!

Beautiful work. Great taste in whiskey with the Blanton's.

Fairing the hill with a plane…you can hear as it becomes fair….nice work Bob.

Love your work, thanks for taking the time to share it

great job, Bob, enjoy you helping out A to A project !!! ez to see you are a skilled boat builder

You just answered my question. Thanks.