Category: Boats & Boatbuilding

Updates are getting a little behind, but in the mean time here is a look at the way work is progressing. It is down to lots of little odds and ends, like hooking up the wiring harness, the VHF antenna, and putting all the tie down straps, padeyes, footman loops and so on in place.…

Progress is happening fast now. The front seating is in, and the Honda control console has been bolted in place and wired to the engine. The PFD’s are visible in the locker under the rear seating platform. That’s a throw bag hanging from the boat hook in the upper right, while it waits for a…

As you can see in the photo, lots of progress has been made. The deck is painted, the hull license numbers are in place, the Austin Healy windshield is finally on, and the coamings have been been mated to the windshield frame and shaped. Just visible on the port coaming is an 8 foot VHF…

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 cables. The seating system is a bit further along, with…

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 coamings to come, and partly to straighten the starboard one, which…

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.

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 family outings, for marine photography, for a couple…

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, goodness knows, I write a lot everyday as it is, between email, code, and other projects. But today,…