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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 coamings to come, and partly to straighten the starboard one, which…
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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.
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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 family outings, for marine photography, for a couple…
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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 review of it here.
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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, goodness knows, I write a lot everyday as it is, between email, code, and other projects. But today,…