The Tardis Project

March 2, 2019 Everything had been going great in Vero getting the dinghy ready for the big Okeechobee trip — blew right up, fits great on the roof, engine all serviced.  But then I got over confident and tried to attach the engine to the dinghy from a little dock next to the boat that

February 24, 2019 Between the mold redaction, a great two weeks with Molly and a bug infestation (more later), I have been incredibly remiss in reporting on “Arnehm” another Olga 28 going together in Zebulon, NC.  I stopped by to see Sytse Douna, his friend, assistant and electrical guru Ton Schoenmaker (a frequent commenter on

February 16, 2019 You know it’s going to be a tough day after two-plus months away from your beloved boat, you drive up to it and it has a hole in it that you can see through.  And the covers you labored over for months are not on the boat.   And the interior is

December 20, 2018 With Tardis sitting in the Florida sunshine, I finally got around to finishing the pram dinghy Offcut. She’s a cute little thing, but her future is uncertain. My thinking was that a wooden boat should certainly have wooden dinghy.  Especially to avoid mockery, derision and head-shaking by the waterfront denizens when anchored

November 30, 2018 Tardis headed back to Vero Beach Tuesday behind Chadd Mowry’s truck and is now safely parked at Absolute Marine.  I won’t get down to late January, but I thought it would be better for the boat to be parked in the Florida sun rather than the Connecticut snow banks. But that put

October 30, 2018 So what was I doing in the English Channel just out of Portsmouth, UK, refreshing the National Hurricane Center website for the EASTERN Atlantic every five minutes?  It’s a long story. Molly and I just finished an incredible cruise around the perimeter of western Europe on the Viking Ocean Cruise ship Viking

September 6, 2018 I have always wondered how I could get a charge to the thruster/windlass battery in the forward part of the boat when it’s away from shore power.  Making it a part of the main bank would require a long run of heavy gauge, very expensive wires.  I could pull power from the

August 15, 2018 I have been hesitant to post about this, because I felt if would make me too sad, but I just received some pictures from Maine of the Jericho Bay Lobster Skiff in her new home.  They clearly show that selling her was the absolute right thing to do. For new followers, the

August 11, 2018 It is definitely, let us say, a sinking feeling when you think you are drilling a 1 1/4-inch hole through an interior bulkhead, but the hole saw breaks through and daylight comes streaming into the boat.  That means it wasn’t an interior bulkhead at all, but that the Tardis temporarily had a

August 4, 2018 Being tied to the dock, both literally and figuratively, I decided to take on some of the larger projects that will turn the Tardis into a cruiser capable of both marina living and independence from the shore while on the anchor.  I’ve been working in bursts between other commitments when it’s not