Howdy from Texas,
Just bought the plans for the Goat Island Skiff and proceeded to build a scale model. It is about 22 inched long, 56cm, so you can get an ideal of the scale I put in an American penny (2cm dia). I have more pictures of it, but wanted to get use to the forum before littering it with pictures. We, my kids and I, built the model out of heavy art paper and used balsa for the spars and timbers. If the boat goes together like the model did I think this will be a fun and quality project for us. We even built some 9' foot oars for it.
Thanks for having this forum. I have already found it very useful as you can tell. I built a scale model based on some of the threads. Now it's time to build a boat.