The Tardis Project

August 31, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  1,363 A short week due to the trip to Ohio to deliver John to school and a long weekend in beautiful Westport, MA to visit wonderful old friends, Angie and Alan Scott. Nevertheless, a few thing got done: — Bonded in the cockpit sides for a watertight

August 21, 2015   Hours spent building to date: 1,337 The New York area has been going through some extremely humid weather, so after 3 pm I am reduced to jobs that don’t fog up my glasses and require minimal effort (like gazing at the plans and plotting next steps).  Nevertheless, it was a productive week cut

August 16, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  1,309 A pretty boring week installing floor joists, painting the deckhouse with tie-coat and fitting the cockpit and deckhouse sole subflooring (1/2-inch marine ply in the cockpit, birch in the cabin proper).  Also did a lot of shop reorganization, since I am now back to cutting big sheets of

August 9, 2015  Hours spent building to date: 1,283 I have been at this for a year now, and it has been a wonderful year by any measure.  I wanted to have some, big significant piece of work to mark the boat’s first birthday, but all I could come up with was painting the bilge/tankage

August 6, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  1,273 Free at last!  Every piece of the hull has been bonded, epoxied, glued, coved, tabbed and affixed to every other piece. This has taken much more time than I anticipated, but I just figured out the supplies : the bonding phase consumed  225 YARDS of biax and woven fiberglass

August 3, 2015  Hours spent building to date:  1,258 In high school chemistry, I could never remember the difference between an exothermic reaction (gives off heat) and an endothermic (absorbs heat).  It was the only question I missed on the final, and Mr. Krumholtz was aghast that I would miss such and easy one after three years of