Interior

Here the boat now, in its present state. The interior painting is almost done. The coaming is rough cut and propped up in place. There’s a tunnel made of vacuum system tubing installed under the starboard gunwale for routing the steering cable and the electrical...

Transom & Gunwales

Now progress is heating up, along with the Spring weather. The transom has been epoxy saturated to strengthen and stabilize it, and a custom designed aluminum cap has been installed. The gunwales have new vertical grain fir caps, partly as a foundation for the...

Sheathing the Hull

A few weeks later and the windshield has been removed, the seating is torn out and functioning as supports, and I’m hard at work stripping the bottom. Morgan supervises. After the bottom was stripped and sanded, and the full extent of the corrosion could be...

The Beginning

The Bardick, named after a classic Lyman runabout in my family for years, is my latest major personal design project. Besides providing an opportunity to apply some of what I learned at the Westlawn School of Yacht Design (on a small scale), this boat will serve for...

Built with Ecto

Shortly after I put up this site I found an excellent blogging tool called Ecto. I have been using it to maintain this WordPress based site, and so far it is remarkably well thought out and feature rich. After I gain a bit more experience with it, I’ll post a...

First Words (Archived from The Bardick Blog)

It’s my birthday today, so I’m starting a blog. It’s my intent to write about design, photography, the processes involved, and their inter-relationships. We’ll see how it goes, since I don’t really consider myself a writer. Though,...