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Choose between Swinging Centreboard and Daggerboard

A discussion about basic pros and cons for swinging centreboards. And dagger centreboards. Centre Board means the board is in the centre. Which is different from a Lee board which is too the side.

Avoiding Epoxy Allergies in Boatbuilding

How common are Epoxy Resin allergies and what are there strategies for reducing the chance of building an allergy? I will discuss building strategies, materials choices and useful production work practices.

Review of Viola 14 Canoe from Hungary

Read Jenő’s experience with the Viola 14 sailing canoe which is Michael Storer’s latest design – the second and the third boats were built in Hungary by two members of the Hungarian Amateur Boatbuilding community (hajoepitok.hu).

Goat Island Skiff in Florida moving quick in rough water

Why the Goat Island Skiff is fast.

Why explained. My most popular design is the Goat Island Skiff a light plywood planing sailing dinghy that is devastatingly fast in most conditions – not so surprising when you realise a lot of the development was because of racing dinghy advances but intended to avoid the skyrocketing costs of sailing participation.

Low drag makes sailing canoes fast in light winds - here a plywood Viola 14 Canoe 5 days on the Fresian lakes and canals

Viola 14 Blitzes a second RAID event in the Netherlands

The BRIO RAID was on last weekend and two sailing canoes participated finishing extremely well outright on handicap – both leading for a substantial part of the races at different times in a fleet of 150 boats

College students build 10 racing sailboats in two weeks

Two Weeks and College Students Build 10 Oz Geese.

Just back from Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines where the PHBYC group I belong to has helped college students build 10 Oz Goose sailboats to initiate collegiate sailing at the fraction of the cost of commercially available boats.