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    How did you get on with the Cyclone Cliff?
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    Good thanks Michael, we were very lucky.

    Lots of leaves & branches down & it cut our holiday in Tassie short by a week but we are fine.

    All the story is here if you want to read it.
    https://www.woodworkforums.com/f43/ya...yclone-130830/

    We fly out tomorrow in time to get to the boat show.
    Cliff.
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    Got them! Many thanks Cliff

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    Good luck, take lots of photos as you go, then you can pick through them & post the best ones on here.
    Make sure you start a new thread for your build.
    Cliff.
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    Default Short version of QuickCanoe

    Has anybody made a shortened version, say 12 ft, for single handed use? I've bought the plans and wondered if it was achievable by simply scaling down all the dimensions on the lofted hull shapes. Advice would be much appreciated.

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    Howdy,

    It will be very unstable if you do that. We looked into doing a different boat for singlehanders and it turns out the weights of a short and long boat are not really different enough to warrant moving to a shorter one.

    The longer boat will travel faster, handle rough water a bit better, take an extra person when needed and be easier to get up on a roofrack - particularly if you put one end up first.

    MIK

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    Thanks very much for this information Mik. I'll build to the plan size

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    I spent an hour or two playing with the drop-in sailing rig yesterday. (Reinforced impression: I still want a blinking rudder...)

    The high point was near the end, as I was packing up, when a chap cycling his way home from work stopped to talk. My QuickCanoe reminded him of the boat he used to have back in Vietnam. He wanted me to build him one! Backed out of that but passed on details about plans etc on the internet.

    (Huang -?- if you're out there, it'll be good to hear from you!)

    Another 'onya' for you, MIK: people just love to look at something that's been home-built.

    (Alas, the low point was a gust of wind blowing Awi Zomé! off the roof-rack before I had her tied down, resulting in puncture to the port hull to be repaired. No real dramas: well above waterline so a bit of gaffer tape would keep us going. A bit of filler and fibreglass cloth in and out will fix it, I figure.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by MichaelB View Post
    I spent an hour or two playing with the drop-in sailing rig yesterday. (Reinforced impression: I still want a blinking rudder...)
    That's why I left the stems fairly straight on this boat.

    The high point was near the end, as I was packing up, when a chap cycling his way home from work stopped to talk. My QuickCanoe reminded him of the boat he used to have back in Vietnam. He wanted me to build him one! Backed out of that but passed on details about plans etc on the internet.

    (Huang -?- if you're out there, it'll be good to hear from you!)

    Another 'onya' for you, MIK: people just love to look at something that's been home-built.
    Sounds more like an "onya" for you Michael - for buildling it!

    (Alas, the low point was a gust of wind blowing Awi Zomé! off the roof-rack before I had her tied down, resulting in puncture to the port hull to be repaired. No real dramas: well above waterline so a bit of gaffer tape would keep us going. A bit of filler and fibreglass cloth in and out will fix it, I figure.)
    That sounds about right. I usually get one rope around the boat before thinking about anything else. Mostly because I got so used to the Balsa Canoe - way back when.

    It doesn't take a lot of wind to blow a 12 lb (5.5kg?) boat off the roofracks.

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    Smile Quick canoe stability

    Hi all

    Launched the quick canoe at the weekend (will post pictures, promise). We had a great couple of hours, my ten year old loved it thanks Mik, It was quite choppy and cold so didn't really test the stability too much but it did seem quite tender balance wise, totally new to this canoeing lark, will we get use to the tenderness? I set the seats at Mik's suggested seat heights, but ignored his advice to set them 50mm lower! Thought we had good balance? Should I lower the seats? Will it make a big difference or should we just get used to it?
    Taking it out again on a local creek at the weekend.

    Enjoyed the build so much I ordered the 'russki' plans today, will try to get built for Easter trials.

    Cheers

    Crawford

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    I don't like wobbley canoes so I set mine 40mm lower & I love it.
    Cliff.
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    I set mine about 50mm lower than the plans, following MIK's suggestion, and I'm happy with that. It's comfortable enough to paddle around with someone-else up front and I want to be on the stable side with Die Ankelschnappen on board (however much they're stronger swimmers than I am!)

    If I'm paddling solo I kneel amidships anyway.

    P o s t... p h o t o s....

    (Need Storer boat p*rn...)

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    I think I will change the plan to have the lower seats as standard in the drawings etc and give an option for more experienced types to move them up.

    Thanks hugely for the feedback.

    MIK

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    Hi all,

    I obviously need to lower the seat, what's going to be the best way to remove the seat supports (remembering that I'm a complete woodworking novice) seats are glued as per plans.

    I was thinking Japanese back saw between the support and hull, if this didn't damage the hull too much, have finished interior bright and would like to keep it that way if possible. Another thought was that I could just plane/chisel the seat support away then sand the remaining epoxy away, and then just make new seat supports.

    Which method is best or is there a better way?

    Cheers

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    If it were me, being somewhat inclined to economy of effort...

    If they're already glued in place then give it at least another go or two to see how you go learning to use it as is. Can't hurt, and doesn't make a mess. More of a mess in my own experience.

    I'd keep chisels well away from the plywood. I've already learned how easy it is to punch a hole with a pointy thing.

    I'd cut the seat struts away from the supporting brackets. Then they're an optional feature, not a lingering reminder of error. (No, not mistake... "learning experience".)

    But I'd take it out again first, just to see if it isn't okay as is. That's not instability, that's personality!

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