Thread: Building the OZ PD Racer - now renamed the OzRacer

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

We've already got enough Ducks for a regatta, a few more and we'd have an EVENT!!

I know it's a gaggle of geese, does that make it a duckle of ducks?

brace of ducks
flock of ducks
flush of ducks
paddling of ducks
raft of ducks
team of ducks
dopping of ducks (diving)
plump of ducks (flying)

Ducks - badelynge, brace (a pair), brood, flight, flush (group
rising from the water), gathering, raft, bunch, paddling
(party on water), safe (two ducks), sore (two ducks),
team (a brood of young ducks in flight)

Yeah Cliff, but in this case, it's an Insanity of Puddle Ducks

Richard

Well looks like I might actually finish a project in the next week or so.
That of course leaves time for me to do all those jobs that the wife has been nagging about for so long.

As I am sure you will agree this will not do at all!

To guard against this situation ever arising again, I intend to start at least 1 project that will never finished. And the obvious choice for a never ending project is a boat. Not only will it never be finished but I am bound to need lots more tools to not finish it with.

From all that I have read the Puddle Duck seems like the perfect choice for my new project.

Now I just need to know if I am going to not build an American type PD, or should I wait for the OZ PD plans?

Originally Posted by knucklehead

Now I just need to know if I am going to not build an American type PD, or should I wait for the OZ PD plans?

You don't like being on this forum do you

Richard

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

brace of ducks
flock of ducks
flush of ducks
paddling of ducks
raft of ducks
team of ducks
dopping of ducks (diving)
plump of ducks (flying)

Ducks - badelynge, brace (a pair), brood, flight, flush (group
rising from the water), gathering, raft, bunch, paddling
(party on water), safe (two ducks), sore (two ducks),
team (a brood of young ducks in flight)

Well woudn't that plucka duck :eek:

Originally Posted by knucklehead

Now I just need to know if I am going to not build an American type PD, or should I wait for the OZ PD plans?

Of course I am horribly biased - but our boats sail really well, whereas following the info on the American site will mean a lot of the design is sorta do-it-yourself.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing and can be a good thing if you are the type that likes making and remaking bits until they work. A great deal of that type of learning can be had for very little money.

BUT if you want a boat that goes together well, works well right from the day you put it in the water - is strong, is light, goes in all directions the way a proper sailboat should ...

Then I would suggest waiting the two or three weeks it will take me to get the plans ready (I have to - Duckflat want the plans so they can build 4 - and they are also giving them a push for the boatbuilding residential class they are holding at Goolwa in few months.

By the way the plans will be dirt cheap. http://www.pdracer.info (Aug 2006)

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

Of course I am horribly biased - but our boats sail really well, whereas following the info on the American site will mean a lot of the design is sorta do-it-yourself.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing and can be a good thing if you are the type that likes making and remaking bits until they work. A great deal of that type of learning can be had for very little money.

BUT if you want a boat that goes together well, works well right from the day you put it in the water - is strong, is light, goes in all directions the way a proper sailboat should ...

Then I would suggest waiting the two or three weeks it will take me to get the plans ready (I have to - Duckflat want the plans so they can build 4 - and they are also giving them a push for the boatbuilding residential class they are holding at Goolwa in few months.

By the way the plans will be dirt cheap.

MIK

Well you've sold me MIK.
All I ask is that you reserve a rather large section of the plans for "tools that you MUST buy to complete this project". Just make it look official enough to fool the wife. i.e Australian Maritime regulations state that all wooden sailing boats must be constructed using Lee-Nielson hand planes etc.
I can offer my services in compiling said tool list if required.

Originally Posted by knucklehead

....make it look official enough to fool the wife. i.e Australian Maritime regulations state that all wooden sailing boats must be constructed using Lee-Nielson hand planes etc......

Is she THAT blond?????

Originally Posted by knucklehead

Now I just need to know if I am going to not build an American type PD, or should I wait for the OZ PD plans?

And of course with the OZ version, help is just up the road. Not help with interpreting plans, or building the boat, you won't need that, I mean help emptying bottles of beverage and consuming hot snags at the launch party!

If you want to check anything out before or after you start, give us a hoy!

oh... and welcome to the "Clutch".

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by knucklehead

Well you've sold me MIK.
All I ask is that you reserve a rather large section of the plans for "tools that you MUST buy to complete this project". Just make it look official enough to fool the wife. i.e Australian Maritime regulations state that all wooden sailing boats must be constructed using Lee-Nielson hand planes etc.
I can offer my services in compiling said tool list if required.

Geez KH,

And I don't think I can comply with providing a long list of "necessary" tools.

I would suggest it is an area where you have to work out your own way forward.

And remember - "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger".

MIK

Yeah, riiiiight....... and is there a version of the plans where at a bloke can build it outa empty cans??? HUH?

Originally Posted by Christopha

Yeah, riiiiight....... and is there a version of the plans where at a bloke can build it outa empty cans??? HUH?

...but wouldn't that be an idea for a Quick'n'Dirty boatbuilding comp...

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

help emptying bottles of beverage and consuming hot snags at the launch party!

P

Thanks Peter.


The PD project is shaping up just nicely.
A quick list of "Pros and Cons" of the project so far:
Pros:
1: its an never ending project
2: costs very little to never finish
3: gives an excuse to buy new tools
best of all
4: requires much time pondering the way forward over a beer and burnt offerings.


Cons:
1. Still have to hold down a day job


I think I'll take to this boat stuff like a duck to water (sorry couldn't resist).