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11th April 2012, 02:48 PM #1New Member
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Mouse Dingy
I found these FREE plans on the web for a small "Mouse" Dingy from one panel of 4x8 plywood. I have never made a boat before, but looks fun and I love to fish ponds and such.
so how do I read these panel layouts? and does the kcanoe9offsets that came with the file apply?
Thanks
Terry
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11th April 2012, 04:17 PM #2
the offset for KCANOE bear now relationship to the MOUSE DINGHY as far as I can see.
are you sure that you can fish out of this , with a beam of 28" and 8" of Hull depth by the time you sit in it, I don't think you will have much more than 3-4" of free board.
Jeff
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11th April 2012, 08:38 PM #3
The panel layout looks like Gavin Adkins' Mouse all right.
Too lazy to try & analyse the figures picture...
Daddles (who used to frequent these pages) has/had a couple of Mouses (Mice? Meeces?).
Lots of fun to play in on flat water on ponds. Daddles added a deck & buoyancy
chambers to make it slightly resistant to small wind chop. (there goes a second
sheet of plywood...)
If you weigh under about 100lb, are reasonably short, and have good sense
of balance, fishing might be an option. If, like me, you are the high side
of 200lb, & tall, you daren't even breathe heavy !!
cheers
Alan
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11th April 2012, 09:45 PM #4
This is Daddles' mouse on West Lakes. As VK4 said, not a lot of freeboard. It sure does scoot along though. It actually felt very stable but Mik said if you move too far up to one end it will just slide under the water - I didn't try to prove him wrong
Cheers, Bob the labrat
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11th April 2012, 10:14 PM #5Member
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Mouse plans
There are more comprehensive plans available here:
http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/gavin/mouse/Mouse.zip
And some photos here:
Free boat designs
The table of offsets is there for you to plot points directly onto the ply sheets, You then get a long, flexible batten and join the dots. This gives you the panel shapes to cut out and join into a 3D shape (hopefully)Charter boat? What charter boat!?
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12th April 2012, 02:20 PM #6procrastinator
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There was a recent thread on building a mouse at https://www.woodworkforums.com/f32/pa...-build-144983/
There are some other one sheet designs at One sheet boats - FLO-MOFlowing Motion
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