Is it revolutionary?
The Quick Canoe uses Duct tape to hold the plywood together while the glue or glass tape sets up. This can save a huge amount of time.
The Quick Canoe is designed to take maximum advantage from the method.
Boatbuilding school
Slideshow of building Method for the Eureka Stitch and Glue Plywood Canoe
Slideshow and pictures resources to show some of the methods for building the Eureka Stitch and Glue Plywood Canoe.
Event invitation
Invitation for storerboats (and others) to Oklahoma in October
Some of my favourite (originally PDR) people, Jackie and Mike Monies, are hosting a woodenboat messabout in Oklahoma at Lake Eufaula.
Friday thru Monday, over Columbus Day Weekend, Oct. 8-11
Jackie and her daughter are famous for providing wonderful food for various events. The last PDR worlds and the recent Texas 200.
This is from Jackie
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Culture
Want to build a canoe and travel down the Loire River in France? 2011
Want to travel down the Loire River in France? A group on the Duckworks forum are planning to build a bunch of quick build boats, possibly including the Quick Canoe for a 14 day trip.
Everyone covers their own expense. Maybe September.
Boat Tuning
Setting up for performance – Balance Lug – Goat Island Skiff
John Goodman who recently spent 5 days semi racing a Goat Island Skiff in the Texas200 event got back to me with some observations and even some pictures of aspects of the boat and the sailing.
I have responded with suggestions to make some further improvements. Between John and me there are some useful tips about setting up a boat for more speed.
However the standard setup of the Goat is fine for most – it is still pretty quick in standard form.
There is advice for both lug and sprit traditional rigs here.
Canoe
Jani in Finland converts a Quick Canoe for rowing.
Jani is a friend of Perttu in Finland.
Jani wanted a boat for rowing and fishing. He built a Quick Canoe and modified it with outriggers and also worked out a scheme where it can carry one or two people simply by changing the bow.
Maybe it is so clever because Jani is an Industrial Designer!
Cruising dinghy
A few more pics of the GIS yawl in the Texas 200 Mile event.
John and Mark are pretty happy with the Goat Island Skiff Yawl.
You can see some of the story here
Goat Island Skiff Plywood Boat sails 200 miles up the Texas Coast.
There are some more pics
Nice woodworking detail in that one above!
For much more Goat Island Skiff info and boat plan detail
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Boat building
The two plywood canoes in my range – How to choose.
This page compares the two plywood canoes in my range. Both have detailed plans and are simple to build.
The page is to explain the differences and to help potential builders see if one of the boats suits their needs.
Lots of links to pictures, build articles and even videos.
The cla
Beth sailing canoe
Robert Hoffman in Poland in his BETH sailing canoe – Pics
A bunch of photos of Robert Hoffman sailing his Beth Canoe.
He built it over winter but now is enjoying Spring.
Agents
Five days and 200 miles up the Texas Coast. John and David Goodman in their Goat Island Skiff
Exciting News, John and David Goodman finished the Texas200 event in their lime green Goat Island skiff.
Five days and 200 miles up the Texas coast dodging huge barges and commercial traffic.
They had a great time and are very happy with the performance of the Goat
Boat building
Another Plywood Quick Canoe in a week – Clinton in Sydney
Another Quick Canoe built in less than a week. This time by Clinton.
He shows how quick and cheap the boat can be. Probably our friends from the Americas can build for about half this price for the same materials quality.
All Plans
Goat Island Skiff Launching 3 – John’s CNC yawl version in Texas
John in Texas built his Goat Island Skiff from a kit made by Clinton Chase. They are experimenting with a yawl version of the Goat.
They had a launch and a capsize by the dock.
The boat is a great lime green. I used to have a lime green NS14 dinghy that I enjoyed so much some of the design input went into the goat.
Boat building
Goat Island Skiff Launching 2 – Woodeneye in the Hunter Valley, NSW.
Bruce in New South Wales, Australia has launched his Goat Island Skiff plywood sailing dinghy at Port Stephens.
They had a nice day sailing around but capsized the boat by accident when someone tripped up. Ooops.
I am still not sure who is to blame!
We are still waiting for launch day pics to be retrieved from the waterlogged camera.
Dinghy
Goat Launching 1 – BobWes in Sacramento
Bobwes has been using his Goat Island Skiff over the last weeks.
It is brightly coloured and looks pretty great.
Australia
PJ and Cliff build a plywood Quick Canoe for the Tinaroo Raid in one week
Cliff and PJ live in Warm Queensland and Wintry Tasmania. However they both like to go the the yearly (June) wooden boat festival in tropical Far North Queensland.
This year they decided to build one of my Quick Canoes. They started on Saturday and finished including putting the canoe on the car roof by the following thursday.
They are experienced woodworkers so added some very nice details.
Goat island skiff
Goat Island Skiff Launching 4 – Christophe in New Hampshire
Christophe has launched his Goat Island Skiff in New Hampshire. A very nice looking boat.
All Plans
Perttu in Finland takes his cheap plywood Quick Canoe on a river trip – Videos
Perttu took his recently built “Quick Canoe” on a trip down a river in Finland.
We don’t have rivers like this in Australia! To see them is quite exciting.
The Quick Canoe is designed to be very cheap and easy to build, but still work OK.
All Plans
PDGoose DIY sailboat Pics from Jim Post
Jim Post has built the hull of his PD Goose – a 12ft version of the OZ PDRacer.
He has done a nice job with a couple of nice additions. A seat in the middle and a stylishly angular splashboard on the foredeck. I am dying to hear how it sails!
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