Thread: Goat Island Skiff building in Denmark :-) Sejl-jolle bygges i Danmark

Originally Posted by Maximuss

As i say in the subject, i have just bought the GIS plan today. Not i really hope that i can make it, i have not any experience what so ever in boat-building and very little in wood-work also. I may trust that even a novice can build it

But i just cant wait to get started on building my own sailing-boat. It have been a boys-dream since i were a kid. So it go 20-25 years back now

Bjarne Pedersen
Denmark

Ya silly bastard, you're stuffed now!

(which is aussie for "well done mate" )

The GIS is a good boat for a novice builder. Mik works a lot with novice builders and is well aware of their needs and misconceptions. He's put a lot of effort into the design of the boat and into the plans to ensure as much as possible that novices can successfully build one of his boats.

Richard

Great news Bjarne,

Feel free to put thoughts and questions up here ... there is also a lot of information if you dig around in these pages too.

Best wishes
Michael

hehe, yes im hooked now
I know with 100% that there will come a lot of questions on he fly, so be sure you def. not have heard the last from me

Im really looking forward to start building it - im going to get the plywood on wednesday. I just need too figure out what i need to start with, i know i need the ply and some wood


Best Regards

Bjarne Pedersen

Originally Posted by Daddles

Mik works a lot with novice builders and is well aware of their needs and misconceptions.

Richard

What about my needs and misconceptions!!!!

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

What about my needs and misconceptions!!!!

MIK

What about them?

Richard

Originally Posted by Boatmik

What about my needs and misconceptions!!!!

MIK

Mik,

I'm so sorry to have to be the one to tell you... your needs and misconceptions are so overwhelmingly vast as to be impossible to address without extraordinary means... unavailable to the mortal man. Maybe we can all pray for divine intervention?

Will it help if I tell you that my PuddleDuckRacer "Shredder", which was all kitted out with MICHAEL STORER DESIGNED spars, sail (82 sq. ft. balanced lug), foils, etc, came in 4th in the PanGalactic Interdimensional World Championship race on Saturday? If she'd have had a skipper who know his gudgeon from his oarlock, she'd have taken all honors. That boat flat out flies.


"Work is victory" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been reading in the 'book' now and i could use some more real picture showing each step. The problem is that there is quite a lot of word in english i never have seen before
Do you know a website where there is pictures, not drawings, of the building progress. I think that would be a very good supplement for me when i start building.


Bjarne Pedersen
Denmark

Hi Bjarne,

A lot of the boatbuilding words are equally difficult for everyone ... sorry about that! I tell you the name for the part as come to that part of the building.

Here are some pictures on Flickr. It doesn't go right through the building process, but should help.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boatmik...7600859659666/

Also there is Peter Hyndman's GIS site that has a few addtional pics
http://homepage.mac.com/peterhyndman/GIS/

And you can ask any questions here at all!

Best wishes
Michael Storer.

Maximuss:

Congratulations. I too bought plans only recently (June 4th). I am just about done with the hull, I need to finish one more coat of epoxy, then varnish and paint.

The www.flickr site is invaluable. You should bookmark that site and refer to it often. It was very helpful to have it available as a supplement to the building manual. As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words."

Good luck,

Dana Lukens

The pictures on the flickr.com is really a big help. I were close to give up before i started. I could really not understand so much of the manual.
So now i have the guts to start and then hope this community will help me out with my 117 questions

I actually alredy have one. The picture below, is the wood just bend or have it been planed ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boatmik...7602972202430/

Bjarne

Bjarne,

If you follow the manual, than you should first plane the underside of the gunwale (= the piece of wood in the picture) into a certain bevel (= angle). Than the whole gunwale is bent in place and glued to the hull structure.

There is a thread further down called GIS - Inwale spacers that might be helpful.

Best regards, Joost

Originally Posted by Maximuss

The pictures on the flickr.com is really a big help. I were close to give up before i started. I could really not understand so much of the manual.
So now i have the guts to start and then hope this community will help me out with my 117 questions

I actually alredy have one. The picture below, is the wood just bend or have it been planed ?


Bjarne

Howdy Bjarne,

A Dutchman and and Yankee helping a Dane on an Australian Forum!

What will we have next ... World Peace!!!

Well done, chaps!

The piece of timber (the gunwale) bends around the hull very easily.

You don't need this number of clamps as you can use the temporary screws and the cordless drill from the inside of the hull.

If you work out where the "spacer blocks" will go when the long inside piece of timber (the inwale) is fitted then the spacer blocks will hide the holes from the screws!

Best wishes
Michael

Thx for the answer

The way you say it sounds very easy.
I have no more concerns starting to build the boat - im gonna go buy some ply tomorrow so i can start cutting it out.
I have 2 boys and the small one is very much looking forward to we start building the boat and the big one just wanna sail

I like how fast you guys are responding on the question. I do really preciate the help from you guys.

I will take pictures along the work and i want to put it up on my website to help other novices. The intend is to document each step, more or less. Im sure im not the only one who would like to have some picures too look at when building.
Version 1 of that would only be in Danish - if there is a need for it i would think about translating it to english.

Yup, the internet is very small and english is a wide-spread language, which make it easy to help eachother

Now i just cant wait to start building


Bjarne

Maxi,

If you want to buy both Koala and I a cheap €1 plane ticket from Slovenia to Denmark, I'm sure we could have this GIS in no time flat!

Then again, my wife is not keen for me to spend hours working out of Koala's workshed building our PDRs, so that might not work.

Anyway, we're around here on the forums if you want to talk European wood varieties.

Mark