Precut Plywood Kits Available for Storer Boats – UK, Europe, USA, Australia, South Africa.
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Photos from Goolwa Wooden Boat Show 2011 – looking forward to 2013!
Photos and slideshow from the Goolwa Wooden Boatshow 2011.
Over 250 boats – mostly in the water. Wooden hydroplanes, “restricted 21s”, riverboats, putt putt launches, classic sailing boats, kayaks, canoes and more.
I had the quick canoe, the eureka canoe and the OzRacer on the stand that was shared with Duck Flat Wooden Boats and Boatcraft Pacific. Good time was had by all.
Ocean Explorer – a micro cruising sailboat for inland waters from Perttu Korhonen
The dot in the bay above is Perttu’s Microcruiser sailboat on a three day trip on the extensive Finnish waterways.
The boat is tiny – 8ft long and is based on my successful OzRacer design (formerly OZ PDRacer)
It is a brilliant concept and sails well upwind and down on inland waters.
First detailed sailing report for OZ Goose – a simple and cheap 12ft sailboat.
First detailed sailing report of the Goose 12ft sailboat.
The Oz Goose is a 12ft sailboat derived from the smaller OzRacer/PDRacer/Brick line. It uses all the same running gear as the OzRacer.
Video of Quick Canoe in Hungary.
A video of the Quick Canoe in action.
My Agent in Hungary who sells plans in both English and Hungarian has launched the first Quick Canoe in those parts. It is designed as a very simple and easy to build boat. It is not a perfect high performance boat, but the numbers have been worked out to give good performance despite the simple shape. It won’t be as good as the best fibreglass canoe, but it will be better than many average ones. And much cheaper and lighter.
WIKI setup and tuning Lug Rigs, Spar bends and weights, Sail controls and More
The conservative viewpoint is that traditional rigs are not very efficient. However allied to efficient hulls and set up correctly, lug and sprit rigs can be very efficient indeed – not too much slower than “modern” rigs, particularly when the same lessons are applied to trad sails and way cheaper.
This is a WIKI drawn from the group on the Storerboats forum discussions on setting up lug and sprit rigs for best performance building on the information in my webpage.
FAQ Solving Boat building and Repair Problems with Wood Epoxy
Our epoxy timber boatbuilding FAQ. It has been built up over time to cover a huge range of topics for building restoring and repairing wood and timber boats – whether traditional or modern building methods
The Paddling on the Colorado River continues.
More paddling on Lake Powell, Utah, part of the Colorado River.
Remember that I am not a real Canoeist. I have paddled quite a range of different boats at some time or another, I do know basic strokes, I have used canoes to do several day tours (Noosa River, Hawkesbury River) but this trip was to much more remote areas. Closest towns 50 or so kilometres away, we were likely to be pretty well the only people on that area of water after the weekend, we had to carry everything including food as there are no shops.
Sailing comparison Balance Lug vs Sprit sails
Ok … balance lug vs sprit boom triangular sail – what are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these two rigs that naturally control sail twist
Singlehanded Expedition and racing dinghy – RAID41 – a steep learning curve
RAID41 expedition sailing dinghy. Some of safety factors made it less safe. And it led to building simplifications
Oz Racer sailboat – first optional lug rig launched
Dan Taylor in Washington State, USA emailed me to provide pics of the lug rig alternative for the Oz Racer. The sail looks very nice indeed and the light wind and a perfect sunny day were the other necessary ingredients.
A day sailing three Oz Racers and a Goat Island Skiff. Duckworks Chuck in OZ
We are sailing and boating in Mooloolaba, Queenslandand visited by boatbuilder and writer Chuck Leinweber and his wife and manager Sandra!
Fast plywood small boat repairs with no fasteners.
Eliminating Fasteners makes repairs quick and simple – routers or planes can remove large chunks of boat and epoxy precoat can be done with the replacement plywood panels
