On an exciting sailing day I was tired from hiking and bailing. How to rest while a DIY Electric Pump for Sail boats emptied the water.

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Simple to build boarding ladder for small boats from wood, fastenings and glue. Timber ladder mounted on transom for safety & convenience. Woodworking project for sailors

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Teo's Weekly Video series building a plywood sailing dinghy - the performance oriented Goat Island Skiff. Domonstration of building methods. He is currently up to week 18 (March 2020)

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Make excellent and accurate foils (centreboard, leeboard, keel or rudder blade) adding way more performance for not much effort and no cost - series

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Controlling sail twist on any boat is critical for performance. Here we describe two methods for getting more performance all round and safer handling downwind.

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Joost Engelen has provided another hugely useful file for setting up the lug rig on the Viola 14 canoe.

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One of the best instructional videos on the net. How will Chris Heubert of the creative steampunk website LostWax go building a plywood canoe - he normally builds amazing things out of common materials, provides patterns and "how to" videos.

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When a boat owner considers upgrading their boat to make it safer and get more performance, often the first thought is for new sails which is expensive, but a cheap hack is to improve the foils (centreboard or leeboard) which might take little more than a couple of weekends and cost around 50 bucks.

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I was looking for a suitable canoe rack to store 2 or 3 canoes above each other to make the most of the available space. But then I decided - make one!

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What is the best way to tow a tender behind a larger yacht or motorboat? And how does the Goat Island Skiff go as a towed tender?

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