Thread: Yet another GIS, this time a Swedish one

Great News ScooterPontus

There are several on the facebook goat group nearing completion and I think three or four here.

Some are a bit slower when there are family commitments - that is natural. Glad you are getting time to do a bit more.

MIK

Goats on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/Goat...Skiff/?fref=ts

The goat is well suited for builders like me who has much too little time since it builds so fast. An hour or two in the garage and you can clearly see progress. Having built it so many times in my head I find the actual building very straight forward. A benefit of building slowly is that there are plenty of opportunities to slip the fact that you are building a boat into conversations. You also have plenty of time to change your colour choice. Green was the choice for a long time, but then I got a sample of green Perfection and I didn't like it. The oldest son wanted to paint it red and the wife agrees ( she seems to think that it important that others can see it when it's upside down), but earlier today I saw Snare Drum Spiels very dark blue with (i think) white bottom on the Facebook group and that looked brilliant.
Pontus

I am actually making some progress! Spent some time mocking one side and all bulkheads together to get a feel for her size, she really fills my smallish garage. Now it's on to foils and spars. It clearly will be much easier to work on those things without a boat in the way.
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I have found a soul mate. Anybody that has a garage like that would understand mine! Can't let silly things like clutter get in the way of boat building.

It looks rather messy, doesn't it? I always have the intention to clean up before I continue working on the boat, but then the actual building is so much more fun…

My wife has crazy ideas about parking a car in mine. Hasn't worked for her so far.

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This garage is something as strange as a garage that you can't get a car into, which is why I were able to rent it. I kept motorbikes in it for ten years or so before I got into this boatbuilding business. There is still a bit too much motorbike related stuff in it, but you never know. I might get finished with the goat and get another bike someday…

After spending much too much time contemplating where to find someone with a thicknesser I, after watching an hour long program on youtube on how to plane a board straight, square and to the right thickness (you can admit watching that kind of program to anyone), I decided to just go on with it and do it by hand. I took me two hours or so and I enjoyed every minute.

I have attached a picture of my centreboard blank with the outlines drawn in. I couldn't find a measure of how far up on the trailing edge the curve should start so I did something I thought looked alright. Does it seem OK? Also, the gauge should be perpendicular to the edge, in the curved section I suppose it should be perpendicular to the staves rather than the edge?

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I should add that the reason you can see a bit of epoxy on top of the the oak part of the blank is that it is a mm thinner than the rest. It will be alright when I plane it to shape.

Is the oak for the leading edge or the trailing edge? The curve should be on the trailing edge. (Another builder just mixed that up.)

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That looks right Pontus.

The important thing is not getting the edges mixed up.

If you enjoyed the process for making the foil blank flat and untwisted .. you will probably be very happy when you do the shaping. Quite a few have said it is one of the most enjoyable parts of the build as the results are "like a piece of sculpture". Quite unusual experience for home boatbuilders.

The instructions are well explained in the plan so it is simple step by step method to get there

MIK

Originally Posted by Capturethebeer

My wife has crazy ideas about parking a car in mine. Hasn't worked for her so far.

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Don't let you wife read this it might cost you a lot of money!!!

I am moving to a another house and building a new garage. It's 24'wx32'deep, which is big enough to store my GIS and Hapscut with enough room to built my OzRacerRV this spring. Never planned to park a car it it. It will only cost me a brand new kitchen and bathroom for the main house. Got to keep the wife happy!

By the way all you folks that live across the pond and in the southern hemisphere I am amazed and in awe on what you can build in an attic, basement, tiny carpark or in your living room. I really do find it amazing.

I am lucky I live in Texas, where everything is bigger and better.

Sail on my fellow goats

My ideal home has always been a small house with a barn to fill with cars, motorbikes, boats, musical equipment, tools, etc., but my wife is very much a city person, so that won't happen. Since we live close to the centre of Sweden's second largest city (which doesn't make it that big by Texas standards), I'm quite happy to be able to have a garage at all. The key I think is to fight the temptation to assemble the GIS before all parts such as spars, rudder etc. is finished. It's a good thing with an international forum like this that you can look at others when you feel your working space is less than ideal. Some use their living room, some have uninsulated garages so they can't work in wintertime. Others build on a huge veranda in South America with a beautiful view. All ends up with with beautiful goats that they rightly feels proud of.

Pontus