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B-but... why would you ever do that?? :?

Wah! I missed it too.

Well done, Alex, she looks beautiful. Make sure you make her look more beautiful by sailing her a lot!

(What's the line from Blackadder Goes Forth? "Treat your...

I built a QC over my Christmas-New Year break last year. I put in buoyancy tanks in each end by picking up a couple of off-cuts of pine for spreaders at the top, then fitted the bulkhead/side and...

Yes but no. The drop-in rig goes together very simply and is fun to mess about with. Me, I'm stalled at getting a rudder sorted. It's half made but only half. Permanent stainless gudgeons will...

Congratulations on your build, and your first outing! Do you have pictures??

Personally, it sounds like a very big job to try to strip off the paint and apply epoxy (and repaint) at this point. ...

One (just one!) of the things I enjoy about the photos in your posts is how they show your (beautiful!) boat at home in her domestic context. She fits in, amongst the washing and the car, there's a...

Alex, I can't help wondering if you're sanding and varnishing right now, or watching a wedding...

Awi Zome! has a home hoisted up high in the shed. Alas, Version 0.1 didn't meet spec and the canoe fell, collecting some damage by hitting the bench on the way down.

Buger, as the French might...

Hi Rob,

What were you screwing into? Just 4-6mm plywood? Or is there additional backing?

A spouse or any other paddling partner that has a reason to hate the boat trumps any of my considerations.

I do hope they come around to the lowered seats Andrew. :(

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,...

That's a really nice set of vid there. Thanks for showing it.

(Not on a Goat but) we had a great sail last Saturday too. Nice to know it was good conditions across the globe. :)

[No solution but the same problem for me re flickr pics. A compromise is to post the URL for people to chase up themselves :? ]

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...

That's pretty. Well done! :2tsup:

Thinks of all the bumps and scratches that happened in the first three outings.... but thinks better of it. He lay low, and he say nothin'...

I remember wondering a few year's ago why my father was waxing lyrical about the thicknesser he'd just picked up for a particular job of work. "What's the fuss", wondered I. Then last year I found...

On summer Saturday afternoons I crew on SomeOneElse's Boat (a Spacesailer 22). The skipper passed me his old #1 jib for use on Awi Zomé!

What do you reckon MIK? Obviously I'm going to be making...

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...

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It's good, eh?

Good point. To date they stay in place and don't come out however hard I tug at them. If I fully flood the boat and weigh it down to keep underwater they remain water-tight. So far...

What did...

When/if you install an inspection hatch, how do you fix it in place?

The common or garden screw-in variety comes complete with a set of holes ready to take a set of screws or bolts. Both times...

Possibly!

I'm referring to their marine varnish. It's cheaper than the International Goldspar, and apparently an Australian product. But thick.



There's a kiwi joke lurking in there...

I'm watching with interest, Alex, to see how Le Tonk works out. I've been using Bondall, happily with none of the problems you've been confronted with, but the stuff is really thick, much thicker...

John speaks of great ideas! Silly story but.... My two kids and I took our QuickCanoe next door to the neighbours pool to test how it capsized, and how we would recover. They had a great time...

[Note to self: get three more boxes before Boy hits high school]

That's nice looking timber too. The WRC I was given here is rubbish by comparison.

In our experience three-year-olds stack nicely if placed in boxes. In the case of my son I'm hoping this strategy will succeed through adolescence as well.

I started building MIK's Russki a few years and a bit back. Unfortunately I didn't finish it - got interrupted by something else, working in an open car-port in winter wasn't the best, same old same...

I was out playing with balance this morning, in very light and patchy wind before the sea-breeze trickled in at 5-7 knots (I guess) as I was heading back to the landing.

It seemed to me that...

That's gorgeous.

Fantastic to see the whole family able to enjoy something together. Boats are good.

I'm pretty sure I got that from my old granddad but somehow I doubt it was his, so feel free. :)


Thanks for that. And nice video of the 'creek'... I'm sure that might count as a river over...

Totally broken for me too, which is a right cow because I'm keen to see everything you're doing Paul!

I mentioned above that I needed to beef up the clamps that fix the drop-in mast partner to the inwales. I posted a photo showing that the clamp shifted under moderate winds despite my best efforts...

Thanks MIK, reminder duly noted. I will certainly persist with balancing the standard rig. It's in the interests of experimentation: if things progress as I hope they might I want to install a...

Be careful not to miss the step of dropping epoxy into the shavings. It's a karma thing.

I'm looking forward to hearing about the varnish and whether it lives up its promise.

Well, actually I might revise my opinion on painting the lee/centreboard, after re-reading Paul's comments on the value of "patina": the splotchy bits don't really detract that much.

I've been...

Those are all interesting pictures, especially since the sail area looks similar to MIK's 'standard' drop-in rig but also the leeboard is set well behind the mast. One impression I did carry from my...

:- Yeah, but, um, I cheated: the leeboard is a mess of drippy lines that still needs to be sanded, sanded, sanded and painted (decided patchy filler is ugly enough not to varnish), and my sail...

Thanks MIK. Yes, my impatience to see what it looked like was butting against the shed roof. I do still have all the fluoros intact but only just.

I moved the down-haul forward on the boom,...

Thanks. Ihave a lot of other photos taken along the way but haven't got around to organising them yet. And if you see it close up you'll see all the messy bits! :rolleyes: I'm going to put them...

Nearly there. Lots of sanding outstanding though.

Fair go! He's a Western Australian stink-boater, what do you expect?

(Western Australians have little couth - trust me, I know.)

My two recent Duck Flats orders were electronic and turned up via an emailed download link within minutes of placing the order.

All the Storer plans I've got (gosh.. 6...) were A4 documents with...

MIK, Paul (anyone!),

How much curvature did you build into the standard/small sail on the drop-in rig? I'm guessing none on leech and luff, and max about 25-30mm on foot and head, about 25-30%...

I guess it's important that the rudder be vertical if at all possible?

I'm thinking through making the rudder box, with reference to the Oz-Racer, GIS and BETH plans, and any photos I can find of rudders on canoe sterns.

A naive copy of the Oz-R and GIS rudder...

In the last week I've had to give a seemingly ever-expanding explanation of just who Kevin Kline is. And Bob Dylan.

Lately cultural references seem to be so much work!

That's got to be the trick, and I'll inspect my next order of timber closely: my plywood was fine but of four oregon planks I ordered, one has grains in it thicker than my finger. I can snap a...