The Tardis Project

February 28, 2016  Hours spent building to date: 2,208 Working around jury duty (very interesting), I finished up the aft bulkhead and went to work on the roof extension that forms a nice rounded canopy over the cockpit.  Fairly complex joinery (and more beams to make), but the pagoda-like structure that results is quite good

February 21, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,174 We’re still in a phase involving pretty basic carpentry, so things seem to be moving right along.  Having watched every episode of This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop over the past 20 years may have helped. The small drawers under the dinette went in

February 11. 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,123 Another snowstorm blew in and halted the Tardis Project temporarily over the weekend, but progress resumed on the fore cabin,  and all the basic carpentry is done.  I was also able to move out into the deckhouse and get a couple projects underway. — After giving

February 4, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,087 Look at this giant boat filling my shop.  Until now, I can’t think of one project that I haven’t been able to complete either properly or through guesswork and liberal quantities of epoxy filler. But today I had to declare defeat due to two ordinary, perfectly