Thread: Mouse Dingy

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

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

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

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)

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