Editorial and Article praising the simplicity and performance of the Goat Island Skiff in "Le Chasse-Marée" magazine this month - France's premier traditional and wooden boat magazine.

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In the late 70s as a sailing teenager I drew boats on every available paper surface.

A new book "a lighter ton" describes the exciting development of racing yachts to create newer, lighter, faster and cheaper and FUNNER boats.

Many of the developments were from New Zealand designers such as Bruce Farr, Paul Whiting and Laurie Davidson. A new book by Richard Blakey covers this exciting experimental period in yacht design

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Reprint of an article I wrote a few years ago for Watercraft magazine in the UK.

The article points out why I think most of the discussion about boat design being a "compromise" is rubbish and taking that point of view means that the design is sure to be compromised.

What happens if we don't accept the compromise?

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This is a list of the latest posts on the Storerboats Forum.

It has information about building, discussions about design, photos of buildings and launchings and much more.

A main interest is tweaking the best possible performance out of traditional looking boats.

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A nice little article by Jackie Monies who is turning into the writer in residence for the PDRacers.

It posits the idea that because of its cheapness, ease of building and the creativity in the group that it qualifies as the "All American Boat".

Actually I think it is the perfect boat for places that are water rich and cash poor. Anyone can afford to go sailing in these cool little sailing boats. The options of material and design solutions allow the boats to be built of local material just about anywhere. Very cheaply.

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The article talks about how and why Australia and NZ stayed with wooden class racing boats considerably longer than most of the rest of the world and how our wooden boat tradition has been strongly informed by those years of extra development.

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