It was just over a year ago that I took a trip to the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend for the first time.  I went for a number of rea...

True to the plan I had outlined in the last post, I laid out my collection of sanding contraptions, set a time to one hour, and attacked the...

I have found myself bogged down on my Pocketship project.  I'd like to attribute my current lack of progress to the nice weather we'...

There are several reasons the quality of my work on the boat can suffer.  Insufficient preparation is one, impatience another.  But the bigg...

Earning an A in boat building (actually, a B+ is OK by me) takes several things.  Spending time in preparation, cleanup, a paying attention ...

The two big acts of stitch and glue boat construction are, naturally, stitching and gluing.  Actually, there is another act, sanding, which ...

I could write about how I spent some time today tightening wires, measuring, leveling, and aligning stuff on the boat, and how next time I ...