My Backyard Boats: The Quark building log

  

Second launch date -- redemption.

    14 March 03:The Quark, a design by Jim MIchalak, is my next boat of choice.

    The design is a tiny canoe-like boat for double paddles -- and kids, basically.

    It's made with a single sheet of 1/4-inch plywood and a few sticks of wood. It goes together fast, and looks like fun.

    These are the entries in the building log (with the latest entry listed first):

• 03 July 03: Redemption for the Quark
• 03 May 03: Launch ... lurch ... go home
• 03 May 03: Launch ... lurch ... go home
• 29 April 03: Putting on a second coat
• 27 April 03: Prime time
• 25 April 03: Double paddle without twaddle
• 23 April 03: Seven more hours of bonding
• 16 April 03: Taking a bead on the inside
• 15 April 03: Adventures in fiberglass tape
• 11 April 03: Bring on the power tools
• 01 April 04: Bonding stage begins
• 28 March 03: Twice-thwarted in good form
• 24 March 03: Will it float? Yes it will, now
• 21 March 03: Elmer rewrites the hull story
• 20 March 03: A digression on glue for boatbuilding
• 19 March 03: Stem looking good in poplar
• 18 March 03: Sides, form, transom in the bag
• 14 March 03: A good beginning

    The log is also available as a single file:

• Large, single-file version of log -- 5874K