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Hi Cap.
Are you sailing down Cockburn Sound way?
Would love to get together for a Two Goat day.
Im taking mine down to Denmark and Augusta for two weeks of camping/day sailing on the Estuaries in...

Hi Dan
Good choice
Another Goat for the West.
Have you got your ply yet?
Where are you sourcing your Paulowina?
Im in White Gum Valley.
Wayne Poulsen
"Billy Goat"

Hi Dan
Good choice, the GIS cant be beaten for bangforyourbuck.
I have a Goat, sail mostly on the the Swan Estuary but have been to Rotto also.
It was beautifully built by a chap in Mandurah, to...

Duckworks - Lazyjacks for a Balance Lug Sail
Looks pretty simple.
Slick on water handling VS impedenceto impulse sailing.
Wayne

Lazyjacks rigged on a balance lug sail - YouTube
Looks pretty eazy, undeniably more complicated.
Wayne

Hi John & Mik
I have been looking fwd to your post texas sharing.
Now its "by-the-lee", weathers too unpleasant to try it out here just now so Ive been googlesailing. Check it out...
Downwind...

Hi Mik
Im loving the Goat, mostly singlehanded, sometimes two up. im resigned to using ramps now, though I can beach it and relaunch easy enough. However, as an old Kayaker I love and miss the...

Ian
Care to share your strategy for NOT "improving" your Goat by 750mm.
I find sitting down with a cup of tea and waiting for the feeling to pass works out most impulses...
But I would have been...

Michael
Love to see your canoe on the river sometime.
Little kayak rudders can be very effective, I fitted a rudder with about 150 cm2 immersed area to an Avon River racing K2 (6.5m, 230kg all up)....

Lots of good advice above .
Particularly try out and practice EVERYTHING that you will RELY on. (Ive learnt that one the hard way.)
Ive done some sea kayak touring so I have some paddlers comments....

Thanks Mik
Since that post I have wet our new Goat. We purchased "Billy Goat" on Tues from builder Fred Abbott of Mandurah. He built her(?) true to the plans in 2005/6 but found it a bit too...

JOHN G
Hi John, have you tried Your main mast in the original aft position with the mizzen rigged?
I am wondering if the full seven inch relocation has been necessary in practice?
Wayne Poulsen ...

Hi Mik and other aussie posters
I was wondering if you know our boat. I guess a snap would help but its under a tarp in a tight spot.
Its a boxy, hard chine, centre boarder, ply, TS built here in...

John
Marvellous yawl.
Are your gunnel fenders to deal with the rough and tumble of the Texan 200?..
or nice high buoyancy to aid capsize recovery, have you tested them? They certainly seem like...