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Not a good day

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I will start by saying that I am fine. The boat is also good, although I won’t know for sure until I dig around some more and flip her over. […]

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failure
tsunamiball photo

Wheels Up!

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Okay, this first picture is before both wheels are up, but the light was just too cool, not to post it. The 14 foot wooden wheel is off its track a […]

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jigs
a jig to make a jig

Routing Jig for Donut’s Lateral Supports

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It is one if the watershed facts of woodworking. You need to make a jig to make a jig to make something right. It’s always true and always worth a […]

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Portholes are All In

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Dry fit only, but they are in. Now I need to protect the exteriors so I don’t put epoxy all over them as I finish the last few layers of […]

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port holes

Roughing Out Captain’s Window

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Today I cut out a nice big chunk of the bow framework to make room for a window. Each step makes this big ball of wood look more like a […]

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port holes

Cutting away Scaffolding

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Today I am rebuilding the scaffolding so I can get the space i need to spin the boat. Originally I planned to lift the boat and then move one of […]

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cutting, learnings, scaffolding

Finishing up the first diagonal layer!!!

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I had a friend come over today to take some photos. I’m just a couple of days away from finishing this diagonal layer. When its done I will start building […]

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stripping

Beautiful at Night

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Except for the crumpled up blue tarp… she is very pretty at night. This is the view out of our back window.

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Whew! Now Just One More Piece

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The fourth mid-ship element is in place!!! Now its time to sand the crud out of the tsunamiball inside and out, finish the last element, and then… I can start […]

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framing

Looking Good

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The last mid-ship element is up and I am feeling very good about progress. Now I need to buckle down and prep for a week of rain.

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framing

Cardboard to Test

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I had to think through this one a bit. I’m not a 3D designer by any stretch of the imagination. Instead of using a nifty 3D application to model this […]

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design, framing

Explaining and Preparing to Spin (Still Not There Yet)

October 17, 2016by tsunamiChris 1 Comment

https://youtu.be/DTJ-s_c7YUE I have been making steady progress, but it has been slow.  In this video I explain how I got here and the reasons for the long time it has […]

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Back Under the Boat

April 27, 2016by tsunamiChris 1 Comment

Today I am back under the boat, working on removing the old wheel carriages. My first discovery was that the 14 foot donut on the back side of the boat is impaled […]

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failure, Metal, Video

Chair sketch

January 8, 2016by tsunamiChris 3 Comments

This week I’m sketching a chair that I could use for a snooze, or sit backwards and do some… sketching. It’s not for the tsunamiball, it’s just for fun. I […]

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Metal, random

Safe: just installed the second jack cradle.

December 17, 2015by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

I have been bad about posting, but lots going on. I’ve been getting my feet under with me with metal work. Most of the build process is super similar to […]

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Still Chugging…

November 25, 2015by tsunamiChris 1 Comment

After the fall… I have been taking time to make the build as safe as possible. Here is what I have been working on… Getting the boat back in place […]

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design, jigs, keel, learnings, problems, safety, scaffolding, spinning, strategy, tools, Uncategorized

Crazy Friday

July 9, 2015by tsunamiChris 2 Comments

  My new crazy Friday project is designing and building a complex curve steam bent wooden chair.  i know most of my days are already crazy, building the giant […]

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Oops. Hehehe.

July 2, 2015by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

 Boy, I could have sworn that I used 16 foot 4x4s on the scaffolding. This was the launching off point for my “how to spin the boat” problem solving. […]

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prepping the floor

Flat For The Win

June 23, 2015by tsunamiChris 1 Comment

One of the challenges of building something big is finding a flat space for assembling final elements. It’s not hard, just time consuming. I have a large stack of 16 […]

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