Sandpaper - don't use COARSER THAN 100grit ON TIMBER TO BE GLUED (or Painted/Varnished). We provide reasons.

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College build 20 boats - The PHBYC yearly boatbuilding program is 20 Oz Goose sailboats to start a sailing curriculum for the Cadet training. These are young engineers.

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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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First Photos epoxy fillet OZ Goose plywood sailing dinghy. Why choose fillets rather than timber? Explained.

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Peter McKenzie and his sons from Queensland Sunshine Coast built a standard Eureka paddling canoe.

Weight was the standard 44lbs. Peter's email gives some nice tips.

They are very happy campers.

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Buying plans in Australia has changed. Duck Flat Wooden Boats in Adelaide are no longer my plans agents. We have alternative arrangements for buying plans as books and plans as PDFs. Duck Flat are growing the Boat Restoration and Repair side of their business.

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A whole bunch of strategies for lightweighting a plywood stitch and glue canoe. In this case a Storer Boat Plans Eureka Canoe. Standard build is around 44lbs. Ten lbs were saved to bring the weight down to 34 or 15k

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The Oz Racer led to the Oz Goose. There was discussion about whether the OzRacer would plane and just how light it would be possible to build. Extrapolating from the Moth Scows in Australia I made a guess.

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How sailing and paddling canoe shapes differ.

How traditional canoe designs work really well and a lot of modern ones don't.

Building a canoe - is ply or cedar strip better?

How to build a lightweight canoe - selection of materials - ply vs strip plank and timber species

Books for canoebuilding.

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Never join boat decks the way you join up panels in a house. Cracks and big failures will result.

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