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Not sure if there is a list, but for budget purposes, you will need four sheets of 6mm ply, or 2 sheets of 6mm and two of 4mm, plus 4 litres of epoxy with hardener, 6 meters of fibreglass tape, and...

Not yet, it was 7c as the high temp today with rain and small hail. At one point everything was white from the accumulation. Hopefully next weekend will be warm enough with a wetsuit. (too cheap to...

That sounds like it would be an adventure! I built a PDRacer in ten part time days once, which included the spars, foils and building the sail as well as the completed hull. MIK and I worked out a...

I sail my PDR in all conditions. And I am usually still out on the water well after the other boats have retired because of high winds or chop. The ride can be wet, but less wet in my opinion than an...

I build a little bit quicker than some others do, but I have built the Quick Canoe in 4.5 total hrs over three days including paint, paddling in the water.
I also built the OzRV in 8 hours for the...

Why are you selling your boat?

Looks great. MIK spent a lot of time making the plans easy to follow.
Make sure to take some action shots when you get it wet.

Rick Landreville
Rosedale B.C. Canada

Thank you Captain Obvious.

Sailed it a bit by myself, then went in and had my father in law crew for me, then after a while we went back in and he took it out so I could get some pictures. (my camera is supposedly more...

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288456288455288458288457No wind, but got it wet, sailed to the middle of the lake, tacked around for an hour, then came back to shore. Air temps +13c, water temp +9c. Might be the last sail of the...

Still frigging with the rigging, but everyone should get the idea of what it looks like now.
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival starts tomorrow, so off we go. I'll finish it up tonight and while at...

The boat is now at the 26th annual Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival. Lots of positive comments. It's unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. Some were commenting on the art deco styling, other on...

I'm almost done.

Here are a few more teaser pics...

Hi Tim;
I started working on it again yesterday after almost a month of not even taking the cover off it. Spent yesterday sanding and coating, sanding and coating, sanding, sanding, sanding then...

Puddleduck World Championships 2013 - YouTube

Here is a you tube clip of the tv interview. There are a couple of shots of my little blue boat ghosting along in glassy water with the masthead flag...

I would mix up some epoxy and only thicken it a little, then try and force it into the opening as best you can. See if you can clamp it shut. I wouldn't try sanding it, as the dust may interfere with...

It's more like every World Championship that there has been a Storer designed PDR, it has won. Every. Single. Time. Mind you, being the Puddle Duck World Champion is much the same as being the...

Spent a few hours on the boat today, and managed to install the daggerboard case and seat, the chainplate mounts, the traveller mounting struts, built the rudder cassette, filleted the chines on the...

I have built or raced 17 different PDRacers, and have built a MkII and built the prototype OzRV. This is what I have learned;
If creating a 'home designed' PDRacer, and just trying to flesh out some...

So far, I have spent $365 on plywood, another $115 on epoxy and glue as well as $38.00 for timber (two pine 14' 2x12 that has been ripped into all the sticks and cleats the boat will require,...

I tried to send the pics to MIK, but his machine would not download them. So everyone gets to see them at the same time as him!

Rick

Here are a few more angles of the progress thus far. Don't look at the messy shop, we are in the middle of a rainstorm and all my 'outside' things had to be dragged 'inside'. No room to maneuver. It...

Knocked it together today. Spent two hours and assembled the parts I had cut out and framed in. Here are a few pics (if I can get them to download)

Rick.

BTW, it is pretty sexy looking in...

257137Here is some more fodder.:roll:

I'm not in agreement with you regarding rig development being the harder part. It almost makes it sound like one has to reinvent the wheel. MIK could easily go with a Byte rig, but at over $2500 for...

There was never an issue with the hull. The hull is pretty sexy looking, IMHO. The issue was the rig. I have an old Laser, and Laser masts and rigs are plentiful and relatively inexpensive. MIK was...

Okay, there is quite a backstory going on with this project. But here is where we are at. This email was from yesterday:

Hello Mr. Landreville,

Thank you for your inquiry for the sail for your...

Sorry Tim;

I am waiting for MIK to finalize whether this boat gets a stayed, or unstayed mast. If it's unstayed, there is a change in the mast step bulkhead, and an extra web to install that would...

Hi Steve; Welcome to the forum!

It was nice to have you come out and look at my small collection of 'Storeresque' watercraft.
As far as knowing when you are on track, if you start overthinking a...

I dragged out all the parts this afternoon about 4:15, then installed the butt straps on the side panels and the bottom panel, and installed all the cleats and framing on the bulkheads, the transom...

11:00 pm Pacific time.

Layed out all the plywood for the sides, bottom, airtanks, centrecase, bulkheads and transom.

Total time: 1:45.

Tomorrow I will cut out the parts. I have neighbors...

The gaboon plywood has arrived, I'll be tracing out the parts this evening. News at eleven.
Rick Landreville.
Rosedale B.C. Canada.

I just hook my toes under the gunnel for the side airtank, but you could install a couple of padeyes on the bottom framing for the transom and on the bottom of the cockpit bulkhead with a piece of...

Hi Tim;
I had been trying to persuade MIK into using some type of ubiquitous rig like a laser for marketabilty purposes, but your arguement about a laser rig looking dated and 'lazy' has me...

Well, I do have a Laser that I could steal the mast from, I also have a mast and boom from a Geary 18 trapeze boat that perished a few years back. 24' long, spreaders, trapeze harnesses, boom vang,...

I have had success filling in the voids with epoxy thickened with Cab-O-Sil. The mast should be wrapped in fibreglass cloth for the bottom three feet or so, plus a wrap of tape over the end where the...

It takes three sheets of ply with very little waste.
MIK does have an article on a cassette type rudder on his website, plus I believe that if you purchase the 'Drop in Sail Rig' plans, there is...

Here are a few pictures of it I had sent to me.
Rick.

Ok, I think today is moving day for the OozeGooze. It leaves Salem Oregon either today or tomorrow for Texas. It will compete in the Texas 200, then Mike and Jackie Monies are taking it from Texas to...

Andrew Linn launched the OozeGooze today, here is the write up and pictures.
Launching the OozeGooze

Rick Landreville
Rosedale, B.C. Canada

On the plans somewhere there will be an email address for Michael Storer. Email him directly and he will pass you the info you require. He will send you the template that will have a scale on it....

1. I used an industrial plastic coating similar to Rustoleum to paint inside the airboxes. Not that I have a preference, I just had some leftover from another project. If I was using expensive marine...

You can, and should build the boat out of what is available at your local Home Depot. I would stay away from the underlayment plywood, even if it is a good deal. If they have spruce or fir 1/4" three...

Okay, I'm really not understanding why you would get a professional boat builder to mess with a perfectly good building method? I built the first prototype, without instructions, taking pictures of...

Maybe I am biased, but I think it would be the perfect vehicle for such an expedition.
I'll even paint it red and white, because red boats are faster! LOL!

Rick.

Hi MIK;

If Andyrew is heading to Texas by car, I could drop off the boat I am working on to his place, and you could use that for the event. Might be comfy!:2tsup:

Rick.

I won the 2010 PDRacer World Championships in a MkIII version that I simply planed down the bottoms of the transoms until I had it *barely* within tolerance. I also won the 2009 PDR Canadian...

Paint, tape and epoxy all weighs a bit too. I found that the paint alone added 2 kilos to my boat.

Rick.