The Tardis Project

January 27, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,042 A head cold and a pretty good-sized blizzard slowed progress, but the next phase of construction after the deckhouse commenced with some interior carpentry. Day One was spent completely cleaning up the shop, which was coated with sawdust after days of heavy sawing and router work

January 18, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,004 Broke through 2,000 hours this weekend detailing and sanding the deckhouse beams, installing the deckhouse side supports and the aft bulkhead.  Pretty routine stuff. The 2,000-hour mark brings up the question I am asked more than any other:  “When do you think you’ll be done?”  Inquiries

January 14, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  1,985 As I mentioned in the last post, the forward deckhouse windows are a morass  of compound curves and bevels.   So immediately up on perusing the plans, I made a quick trip to Walmart for some poster board and patterned the window first in cardboard, then in thin plywood,

January 12, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  1,972 This is post number 100 since August 8, 2014 when the project began.   I have changed a lot since then.  I have joined the runners, quilters, mountain climbers and little old ladies with 248 cats as a true obsessive.  When I’m not working on the boat,

January 7, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  1,948 The Tardis is looking very shippy today with the installation of the deckhouse beams.  This was a lot of labor, but nothing technically difficult, since all 10 beams are the same length and camber. I started by notching out the carlins, not a bad job since