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Great New Website 1 – Goat Island Skiff building and sailing – Simple, Fast Plywood Sailboat
Peter Hyndman’s original pages on the Goat Island Skiff.
Q&A Cordless drills to replace wood clamps and cramps in boat gluing and assembly
Battery Drills (most convenient) with a clutch and variable speed remove the need for dozens of clamps which can be a major cost.
How to Save time boatbuilding by precoating plywood with epoxy.
If ply sheets are precoated before assmbling the boat it saves lots of time. Here are some guidelines
Fibreglassing 3, Doing bigger areas on boats and boat components
This is a basic section on the stages of fibreglassing areas on a plywood boat, canoe or SUP. Many problems can be avoided by being methodical and setting up each stage carefully rather than rushing in.
Q&A Fibreglassing method 2, Double bias tape for curved boat surfaces
Where a seam or boat chine is fibreglassed and the glass bubbles and will not sit flat or go around the corner – a simple trick for boatbuilding. This article shows how to make your own double bias tape.
Q&A Fibreglassing method 1 – small areas on boats.
This is the normal method for fibreglassing small areas for home boatbuilders – typically using fibreglass tape to hull seams, very common on stitch and glue and plywood boats
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
Wooden Boat Building – 10 day Autumn Class
2007 – Duck Flat Wooden Boats in conjunction with Michael Storer Wooden Boat Plans will be running a 10 day boat building Autumn School.
NEWS – OzRacer (formerly Oz PDRacer) Boat Plan – cheap, creative having fun on the water.
NEWS – OzRacer Boat Plan – cheap, creative having fun on the water.
There are two versions of OzRacer. The original, slightly more performance oriented version the Mk2 for solo sailors with occasional crew (photo right) and the OzRacer RV with more space in the cockpit.
12sq metre Sharpie (Heavyweight Sharpie) for sale and Restoration in Australia.
A rare beast, a circa 1960s 12 square metre sharpie with some of the original rig is for sale. I am not involved, but in the interests of helping preserve a little bit of Australian sailing and boat design history I would like to help find it a good home.
The 12sq metre (heavyweight) Sharpie came to Australia for the 1956 Olympics. NZ first, Oz second.
However the boat totally changed the approach to the design of Australian skiffs. Thought you might be interested to read my understanding of the design issues and influence.
How the Sharpie name went from the USA to Europe and then to Australia – and how it changed our boats.
Announcing Michael’s talk in Portland, Maine
Invitation to a Talk by Boat Designer Michael Storer
At Clint Chase Boatbuilder, 25 Deblois Street, Portland, Maine
Sunday Nov 1st @ 11am-1pm, Bring Boats and Questions
After some food and chat, Michael will talk to us about making our boats better…
Interview with Michael Storer by the French Magazine Chasse Marée
Chasse Maree magazine published an interview with Michael “The quest for performance is not a matter of materials, it’s a state of mind” Translated by Christine deMerchant
1 Video – 2 Viola 14 Sailing Canoes Launch. Mirage drive, eVolve electric power.
Two Viola Sailing canoes, one in the Lakes District of the UK, the other in the Netherlands with a full video of how the builder used the boat as the basis of lots of experiments including a drop in electric motor for the Hobie Mirage mount.