Shop & Tooling
4 h
A covered porch and a tarp
No garage. Screened porch, a tarp on the open side, and a rule that epoxy only happens above 15°C.
It worked. The constraint was the calendar, not the space.
Northeaster Dory · new build
LaunchedNortheaster Dory, built on a porch
by Example Logs
· boatbuildlog.com
An example log built in a space that was never meant for boatbuilding. Shows that the shop matters less than people think.
This is an example log, not a real project.
It exists to show what a useful build log looks like — dated entries, tagged to a step,
with hours recorded and mistakes written down. The technique in it is illustrative;
don’t follow it as instruction, and check anything structural against your
designer’s drawings. Its hours are excluded from the site’s median figures.
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Entries
48
Hours
210
Days elapsed
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Mar 2024
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