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 [...]
Read moreNow 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 [...]
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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 [...]
Read moreShortly 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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