Month: July 2015

Summer Slump

July 27, 2015   Hours spent building to date:  1,231 A bad summer cold infected the Tardis Project last week, but I have been back at work for the past couple days and we are steaming (in 90 degree temperatures) along again. Bonding has at long last reached the stern of the boat.  More to do

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Vive L’Hermione

July 19, 2015  Hours spend building to date:  1,212 To recover from the boatbuilding workshop, we took a trip up to Castine, ME, to tour the magnificent French frigate reproduction L’Hermione.  She is perfect in every way.  A bit of the 18th century reborn, built over the last 20 years in France, where maritime preservation

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Better Living Through Boatbuilding

June 13, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  1,190 Only four hours on the Tardis this week (installing forward cabin sole), but 64 building parts and boats at the annual Boatbuilding Workshop at the Connecticut River Museum.  As always, delightful young people who work their tails off for three days on the boats, and a

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Floor Joists

July 5, 2015  Hours spent building to date: 1,186 A very short week on the Tardis due to some crazy sort of national holiday and preparation for the annual Boatbuilding Workshop at the Connecticut River Museum.  Our kit builder for the modified Bevins skiffs we build went out of business, so we decided to get

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