Visit to Duck Flat Wooden Boats in Adelaide.
I used to work at DuckFlat many years ago.
I visited them in Adelaide. Photo and text of a fast plywood trimaran, 40ft steam liveaboard boat, kayak, rowboat and a Hartley Powerboat restoration
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Helping out at the Duck Flat boatbuilding spring school.
I am currently helping at a boatbuilding school in Adelaide.
There are boats designed by me, Oughtred, CLC Kayaks, Joel White and Woodenboat.
People are from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Perth.
OZ Goose sailing dinghy – build and launch pics
Jim Post in the USA sent me a USB drive crammed full of building and launch pics of the OZ Goose design – the Big Brother to the OZ Racer (formerly the OZ PDRacer).
Looking forward to some sailing reports!
Podcast, Chuck of Duckworks an idea for a Boat Festival and the Texas 200
I was sitting in Chuck’s car as we were driving to the Lake Conroe Messabout. I knew that he had some plans for the Texas 200 event – to extend the concept and starting a new small boat festival on the Texas coast in a couple of years.
This is a podcast of that interview.
Slideshows of the GIS Sailing Nicely
Some slideshows of Peter’s 13 year old Goat Island Skiff in medium and strong winds – some really nice photos here – showing how low maintenance epoxy timber boats are
Back from the Avalon Air Show 2007 – beautiful things
Though mostly concerned with boats, I’m interested in highly related areas like aircraft design and performance – Avalon airshow in Victoria.
Setting up leg of mutton with sprit boom rig for OzRacer Dinghy
Slideshow of Rigging details for the Original Oz Racers with Sprit boom leg of mutton rig