The Tardis Project

December 31, 2016   Hours spent building to date:  3,202 Over the holidays, I thought I would take on some jobs that could be done in two-to-three hour sessions, sandwiched in between other activities: — Obviously,  wiring up the nav lights was one.  Connection was easy, but I had to send for some larger raceways, since

December 22, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  3,174 For the last two Christmas holidays, Tardis has received a set of beautiful bronze opening ports from Newfound Metals.  This year the tradition continues with exquisite bronze handrail hardware from Newfound, which I had been admiring for years.   But every time I thought about them,  I was

December 14, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  3,160 I finished these navigation lights, copied from a beautiful design by Tim Lackey,  on August 9, 2014:  two years, four months and 5 days ago.  They were a motivational tool of sorts — building a set of beautiful lights with no boat to go under them would

December 9, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  3,148 Ray and I put in all the windows yesterday, and I did the finish work today. These are really, really good windows.  They are heavily constructed, fit and finish is Mercedes quality and they look great.  They are called Motion Windows from Peninsula Glass in Vancouver Washington.

Ray and I worked our asses off today installing all the windows on the Tardis.  But when I got home, I was terribly saddened and affected by news of the death of John Glenn. In the early 1980’s I was on the corporate staff of the Gannett Company, then as now, a very large publisher

December 6, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  3,138 The windows arrived yesterday, and they look great  — very high level of finish and every one I have tried so far has been a very close fit.  Toward the end of the day today, I summoned the energy to put one in. It was not hard at all and