Filed under Beth sailing canoe, Cruise by Michael Storer on July 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM
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John Goodman and I sailed the immaculate Goat Island Skiff he built from my plan in the Texas 200.
The boat showed itself to be one of the faster in the fleet despite loading up such a short boat with food, water and camping gear for six days with little outside support.
We played with sailing the boat by the lee – a method used by racing boats to gain both speed and control.
I document the method here including a video showing how the angle of heel can be controlled using the mainsheet.
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Filed under Boat Tuning, Cruising dinghy by Michael Storer on April 3, 2011 at 12:36 AM
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More videos of John Goodman’s Yawl Rigged Goat Island Skiff.
He is trying out some rigging variations to see if we can simplify the building of the yawl rig version.
At the moment this is inconclusive, but wow, he got some good videos
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Filed under Cruise, Cruising dinghy by Michael Storer on March 17, 2011 at 2:55 AM
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The TEXAS 200 sailing event is on again. A 200 mile sail and camping trip up the Texas coast that runs every year.
I am going to be in town, so would be crazy not to attend. This is a call for all interested storerboats to consider attending.
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Filed under Cruising dinghy, Duckworks by Michael Storer on June 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM
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Plan info – yawl rig info, please contact me. 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 [...]
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Filed under Cheap, Cruising dinghy by Michael Storer on January 12, 2010 at 4:51 PM
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OZ Racer plan information The PDRacers have a saga published at Duckworks about the Texas 200 (the 200 mile sailing event up the Texas Coast). It is not by a Ducker but by one impressed by them. Extract The Mighty Ducks clung to the port, with all manner and various sort of other craft abeam [...]
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Filed under Event, Goat island skiff by Michael Storer on June 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM
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From Joost who just sailed his GIS in Scotland… …Raid Caledonia is a “race” from the salt water in the West to the salt water in the East across Scotland on the Great Glen waterway which consists of 3 lakes (called lochs in Scotland) and some canal stretches between the lochs adding up to a [...]
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Filed under Cruising dinghy, Lightweight by Michael Storer on May 17, 2009 at 6:22 AM
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Gifted Amateur Boatbuilder Chris Perkins has laboured during some of the most difficult boatbuilding weather to produce the prototype of the new RAID41 (this is the building photoset. It is designed as a one person boat for distance cruising. Once I finish the detail plans, of course. Anyway Brian Pearson, the owner of the boat [...]
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Filed under All Plans, Beth sailing canoe by Michael Storer on March 30, 2009 at 9:50 PM
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It is a bit hard finding information on my forum as the list is not very ordered, so I have attempted to fix this.There is a general building section then each boat is in alphabetical order.To see all the images you may need to become a member, however, they are a good bunch and will [...]
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Filed under Event, Expedition by Michael Storer on October 4, 2008 at 6:00 PM
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It is a long weekend here and I have finally commited some time to developing up a boat that builds on the lessons from the PDRacer. We have seen three PDRacers sail 200 miles along the Texas coast fover an 5 day period and this prompted the discussion about what the lessons were. For the [...]
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