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
Slideshow
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.