SCHOONER PORCUPINE Kickstarter Campaign
Porcupine fans, we are underway on Kickstarter! Please check out our campaign, and see all the awesome rewards we are offering to backers! Click here for a short descriptive
Porcupine is “Keel-ing” it, so May the Swarf be with You
A cubic foot of solid steel weighs 490 pounds. The same volume of lead tips the scales at 707. Depleted uranium? Eleven eighty-six. Roofing pitch? Sixty. The fabulous void
The “Light” and the Heavy
It's not everyday you look through the keel! Right now, you can see daylight through the bottom of Porcupine's fiberglass keel in 14 different places. In some spots,
Bigger, Stronger, Porcupine-ier
Dust is flying, glue is flowing and big, heavy pieces of Porcupine are arriving by truck, ready to Her cradle gone, Porcupine is on jack stands and blocking
New from the Inside Out
One step forward in the Porcupine process required a step backwards. When we received the donated hull from the Palmertons, the interior they’d decided on was already partially installed.
All Schooner and No Skiff Would Make Things Dull at BMC
Hello Fans of Porcupine and BMC, At roughly 42 by 15 feet, Porcupine inhabits a rather large section of both the BMC boatshop and our current organizational focus. She
Porcupine Hiatus in Lone Star Waters
Porcupine Hiatus For two weeks, I briefly hung up my quills to serve as Chief Mate aboard the Barque Elissa. Launched in 1877, this 205 foot iron-hulled ship sails out
Porcupine Featured in Wing & Wing Schooner Newsletter
Wing & Wing, the official newsletter of the American Schooner Association included a story about BMC's Porcupine Project in their Spring edition. Design and drawings by
A Well-Shod Porcupine
Here at the Porcupine Project, things are getting heavy. Or rather the latest drawing from Naval Architect Iver Franzen is of the heaviest part of Porcupine—the ballast keel. The hull came
Porcu-pining for Spring
While it was technically the first week of spring, the weather for last Friday’s “Gunboat Gathering” carried the bite of a wet winter wind across the largely ice-shelled waters