A review of the Goat Island Skiff from Mike McNamara of McNamara Sails UK

Ralph Gersson in Holland got a very nice mail from Michael McNamara from mcNamara sails UK. He made a nice sail for Richard Harvey’s GIS “Blanche” and Ralph has decided to order.

Michael, a racing sailor with a lot of background talks about the experience of sailing the Goat Island Skiff.

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Goat Island Skiff slideshow – building in Norfolk UK

Richard Harvey’s (the owner of the Norfolk Goat) son Mark has put a slide show up of the GIS being put together. A nice compressed view of the project! Slideshow of the Norfolk GIS being put together on the Yare Valley Sailing Club website. Looks like a nice little club for wooden and historic boats. [...]

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Chad Launches Goat Island Skiff – Essex, UK

From Chad, Launched my GIS, Sailormade, tonight after work. Just had enough daylight left as you can see! Boat was very light and responsive. I rowed out away from the jetty but drifted back towards it as I set the sail due to the current. I had not lowered the rudder and by the time [...]

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A UK Agent for Michael Storer Wooden Boat Plans

I would like to Welcome Philip Plowright of Seawing boats to be a new provider of my plans range in the UK and Europe. This is a link to the Seawing boats online store. I am particularly happy because Philip is a person with lots of experience in building light and beautiful boats so will [...]

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PD Racers Marching Around the World

PDRacers abuilding. Well – winter is coming to an end and also it is some time since the Mk2 OZ PDR plan was launched. So quite a few OZ PDRs are appearing around the world. At least as far as registered boats. The fleet in Australia is now a dozen. Not all OZ PDRs but [...]

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