11 Jul 2006 | Boats & Boatbuilding
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...
9 Jul 2006 | Boats & Boatbuilding
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...
9 Jul 2006 | Boats & Boatbuilding
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...
9 Jul 2006 | Boats & Boatbuilding
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...
6 Jul 2006 | Boats & Boatbuilding
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,...
