The Tardis Project

March 20, 2015   Hours spent building to date: 859 The first day of Spring — and it has been snowing since noon and will continue to snow all night.  I have seen worse winters (in 1969 in Spokane we had five feet of snow on the ground), but have never known one so unrelenting — three

March 16, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  835 Gee, it’s too bad but I had to stop sanding for a couple days and move on to the keel.  The reason is simple:  once I totally fair the bottom it’s just too slippery to work on.  I can get on all right, but getting off

February 12, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  815 I have been sanding the hull now for 12 straight days, less one off for a blizzard.   I might have been sanding until son John hauls us off to Assisted Living, but for the help of follower Scott Curry. The problem with sanding a fiberglass boat

March 7, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  786 As I was adding the fill coats to the Xynole, layer after layer, there was always a spot on the third panel from the bow on the starboard side that I didn’t trust.  It was sort of greasy, a couple times I thought I saw a