The Tardis Project

July 25, 2016   Hours spent building to date:  2,722 I’ve been plugging away sanding and shaping on the hull trim, which, again, does not lend itself to pictures.  But I put a nice caprail on the cockpit combings using Mark’s design, and slapped on a coat of wood conditioner to give an indication of what the rest

July 17, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,697 Work on the Tardis has been severely restricted by building three kayak kits and four solid days of boatbuilding at the Connecticut River Museum Boatbuilding Workshop.  But it was fun as usual, and this year’s boat, the Cappy 15 kayak, is a real winner.   I hope I can

July 4, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,677 All engineers who design marine toilet mounting systems should have to PERSONALLY install at least three heads in a box that is 24 inches wide, 42 inches deep and 60 inches high with the bowl shoved against a flat wall– the typical space real people have

June 28, 2016   Hours spent building to date:  2,665 Between work for the Connecticut River Museum, the WoodenBoat Show and a fantastic lecture at Mystic Seaport Museum on the great Polynesian navigators, I haven’t clocked that many hours on the Tardis, but I did manage to finish all the plumbing. The plumbing stretched out longer

June 20, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,641 I don’t know whether I’m sandwiching the Tardis in between other projects or the other projects between the Tardis, but a lot is getting done on all fronts. —  I had some dental appointments that meant I couldn’t get epoxy-coated last week, so I started some light

WordPress decided to get rid of all the spacing in my last post, which made it very tough to read. After a couple hours in HTML land I was able to fix it.  Here is a link to the new version: https://mvtardis.com/2016/06/11/on-second-thought/ PK  

June 11, 2016  Hours spent building to date:  2,607 I have received a lot of comments from followers and shop visitors  on my  last post regarding my plan to get Tardis in the water this fall, no matter what.  Most of them have been along the lines of, “Are you nuts?” especially when they realized that

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