The Tardis Project

December 29, 2014  Hours spent building to date:  486 Put on two more planks and patterned a couple more over the past several days.  No drama — this is a easy part of the boat and the scarfs are nice and flat on both sides, the chine looks good, etc. I think what I wanted to

December 23, 2014  Hours spent building to date: 467 Holiday duties have slowed things down a little, but Ray and John have been helping scarf and lift, so we got a couple more planks on. Had a bit of an oops with the port-side second plank.  I started with the starboard side and had been planning to

December 18, 2014  Hours spent building to date:  452 Ray came over today and we put on the first two planks.  I had spent three days head-scratching, patterning and scarfing, so it was good to see some real progress. Mark provides super-detailed plank patterns, and all his measurements have been extremely accurate so far.  So

December 13, 2014  Hours spent building to date:  428 All 240 feet of sheer plank laminations are on the boat at last.  It seemed like I was working hard, but only getting a strip or two a day finished and glued due to difficulty in placing clamps on both sides at once, glue drying time,

December 3, 2014  Hours spent building to date:  387 I’m the kind of boatbuilder that sees an open joint not as a problem, but as an opportunity to use more epoxy.  The one thing I’m fussy about is sheers.  On the boats I’ve built from scratch, I have always left them high and shaved them