Archive for category: Interests

Interior

Categories: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 cables. The seating system is a bit further along, with [...]

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Transom & Gunwales

Categories: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 coamings to come, and partly to straighten the starboard one, which [...]

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Sheathing the Hull

Categories: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.

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The Beginning

Categories: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 family outings, for marine photography, for a couple [...]

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First Words (Archived from The Bardick Blog)

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

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