Fine-tuning takes time. That was what I learned through this week. After finishing the yard and the boom, I started to do some fine-tuning with Jacob and Ross. The goal of fine-tuning is to given the dinghy perfect consistency, which means any imperfections need to be fixed. The first thing we did was filling the … More Week X update
It is enjoyable to see how much we have already accomplished, however, it is also a little bit nerve-wrecking to realize how much we still have to do before we can claim that we finish the dinghy. Excluding the final week, there are two weeks left in this school year. We really have to make … More No time to spare
After a month of solid work, we finally finished the hull and brought an beautiful ending to planking. Before I go into more details of planking, let’s figure out what’s planking. From what I’ve learned, planking is the process of putting hull planks onto the ladder frame, and it can also be interpreted as the … More Plank with no panic
After two weeks of hard work, planking is almost done, which means our dinghy can soon be floating on Lake Michigan (just floating) ! Really excited for this! So let’s talk about planking. Planking is not an easy task, even though we thought it was easy before. Planking is not simply attaching the plank to … More Short update for week 15
Well, after today I can say I have most definitely expanded my knowledge of the word humility. Or was it oops. Eh, it was a mix of both. I spent the majority of yesterday lining up and drilling holes to attach yet another side plank to our dingus. Dinghy. You know. Instead we rushed … More The USS Mistakes Were Made.
We got stuck. In two weeks, we just actually worked for six days. What’s more discouraging was the fact that we basically made no progress in those six working days. Let’s face the truth: we may not be able to finish the dinghy if we indulge ourselves in the post-spring-break mood and complacency. For me, … More Stay Awake
In order to fit the hull planks together, creating bevel is a crucial step that you don’t want to skip. It seems pretty hard to find the correct bevel and to actually create it, however, we are here to give you some tips to solve this! Let’s go. What do you need? Hand plane and electric are … More Create bevel for hull planks
I was quite surprised when I came in the shop on Monday. Two garboard planks were already perfectly assembled on the frame. Just wanna say thank you to Jacob for his work and the time that he spent on the dinghy during spring break. From Jacob’s description, he used epoxy, the super strong and sticky … More Spring break & Week 11 update
As we planned last week, we started to put the hull planks on the ladder frame. Comparatively, planking is the slowest process we have ever dealt with. Up to Thursday, we only worked on the bevel of the bottom panel. Hand plane and electric plane are two primary tools we used on the bottom panel. After using … More planking
Finally, we got a full week of school. So in this week, we got the dinghy for the hull planks, which means we can put the hull planks on the dinghy next week! It is a big step for us because our dinghy will be looking more like a boat in the next few weeks. We … More Ready to assemble the dinghy
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