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

  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.

During the first stages of our project, we started to build a ladder frame. This is mostly just simple cuts and a little sanding but some of the pieces were a lot of work and involved a lot of measuring and double checking. The pictures shown here are some of our progress including an early … More First Stages

After hours of work and a few mistakes this is where we’re at. This is the ladder Frame as well as the transom which is already at the back. That piece alone took several hours to cut and attach to the ladder frame because it is  actually a part of the boat and not just … More Well, it looks like something!