The Tardis Project

May 31, 2016  Hours spent building to date: 2,572 I spent many hours over the weekend adding trim and finish to the roof, deckhouse and battery box.  But while it turned out beautifully, and was very fulfilling, I was disturbed by the fact that it wasn’t moving the Tardis very far from her current status as a piece of

May 25, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,536 Well, not the Tardis, but the beautiful Cappy 15 kayak for the Connecticut River Museum is finally finished.  It turned out to be quite a process since this is a two-tone boat and we could only apply one color per day.  So my usual day was

May 17, 2016  Hours spent building to date: 2,505 It is all too seldom that the word “done” as in “finished, no more, never again” is used at the Tardis Project, since one task seems inevitably to lead to another. But as to fiberglass work, it is truly done since there is everything on the

May 11, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,480 Had to take a break from boatbuilding to build a boat.  We have a new design for the Connecticut River Boatbuilding Workshop this year, the Cappy 15 kayak.  Due to weather delays, scheduling delays, and very understandable work priorities of a key volunteer, I had to

May 1 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,460 I’m afraid this week’s pictures aren’t going to look a lot different from last week’s since the big job was to put a layer of  okoume marine plywood across the bead board roof panels to add even more strength. After a lot of prep work Ray helped