Quotes by Mike Farrar

“Even the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Todd Gross, when we had no money wrote us a personal check for five hundred dollars to help get us started.”

“We are all happy. Everyone [in the department] seems to notice that we dont shout and bicker as can sometimes happen in senior projects this big.”

“There are so many things we are learning along the way here. Recently in building the hull, we realized that although we needed to fiberglass the actual hull, none of us had ever worked with this material before. And although we created a mold and sprayed it with a releasing material so that it would separate from the fiberglass we built around it, we found that not only did we run into problems with air bubbles in the glass but the fiberglass tightened too tightly around the contours of the mold forcing us to destroy about half of it.”