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I think this is going to be a really beautiful boat. I have been seeing the pictures of your canoe and from the images you put in this thread, it looks like you do a very good job with this one too....

I am very interested in advantages and disadvantages of different designs. This is why I am curious of why you picked to sell the GIS out of all of your boats.

Is it because you know you can...

From the pictures it looks like there was very little wind. It is in such circumstances you need real skills to win. Without a doubt, a big sail area ("tallest midget", as it was called in the quoted...

I am very satisfied :)

Thank you for a lot of information. Personally I am happy I posted the thoughts I found on Spoonbergs site about the cut off sail as it provided a such lengthy answer here.

Take a look at this picture:
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In the picture smoke is let into the air passing through the sail, to show the flow of the air. The top of the sail actually became completely useless...

I am in no way an expert, and I have never even had the pleasure to sail in a real ketch rigged boat. The reason I am talking here about this topic (even though I do not qualify as novice even) is...

Upwind I can fully understand this, as the mizzen is in shadow from the wind and having some turbulence.

But in all other conditions I can not understand this (at least if the mizzen is having a...

You are in a lucky situation as it is easy to remove from the keel, but much more difficult to add. Just take away a bit with a plane, especially at each end of the canoe as there most of the...

I might come there to look at the boats! I live about 2 hours (by car) away. Sadly I do not have a boat myself at this moment. Do you have more information at this stage about the route you are going...

They seem to have so many good ideas in Netherlands. Whike is among the most cool things I have seen: Whike - Whike

I have never sailed a ketch, and I actually have a question that might fit here as you are talking about boats with ketch rig.

If you sail single handed, how do you handle two sheets? To me it...

The dryfit image of the boom gives a such sturdy impression on me. I think it would last even without plywood sides. Especially if you put the spacers at strategical places like where the down haul...

Do you have any extra plan for those holes? Or are they there to reduce weight?

Once I just manage to gather money for my GIS project, I will probably use either pine or aspen for my mast. Nordic aspen is very strong but having vulnerable surface, so it needs a cloth there were...

Here are some images of the boat: Sailguide.com - Fakta och åsikter om nästan alla segelbåtar

Okay, I found on the Internet the same kind of boat I sailed a bit with. It was a Fabola Pokus. Some claim the center board is 60 kg, other say it is 70 kg (about 130-155 lbs). All I know is that it...

I have sailed a few times (long time ago) with a similar sized boat with really heavy center board. It had a hole through the board, and some kind of bolt to put through, so when you lifted it, you...

While it would be a lot of work to make, I think a heavy metal center board would be more nice than having sand bags. Actually, I got a better idea: a board made out of concrete, filled with a lot of...

We want videos of you sailing with your new sail!

We need pictures! And launching videos once it is ready! :U

MIK: From your description it looks like you mean to round near the chine... I was more talking about making the rear section of the bottom a bit bended, so that together with the rocker, it will...

When it comes to the last bit of performance, I have a question also: In The Sharpie Book, it is saying that they made the bottom a bit rounded aft for getting less drag in later sharpies (the...

Yay! Nice!

This screams for pictures!!

PS. Yesterday I got "The Sharpie Book"

The spruce we have growing here is Picea Abies.
The aspen we have growing here is Populus Tremula. (Which you already provided some information about)
The pine we have growing here is Pinus...

I do not really agree on all of points you said about aspen. Aspen is not rottening that easily. It is used in most saunas and would not be used there if it was that bad.

That said, it might be a...

I also really agree that this is the most beautiful OozeGooze so far. You have all the rights to be really proud.

Another thing I find cool with this boat is the rig: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4803487405_428b0faacf_b.jpg

I think this is the most simple rig you can have. The base of the triangle will...

I am deeply shocked! That sharpie is about 600 kg (reference: top speed)! I was not expecting it to be much more than 100 kg. I guess you could get it to really fly with a little bit of changes to...

Congratulations! Your boat looks really beautiful and well made!

This with that sharpies (nearly) got banned from racing I have heard several times repeated in different forms. I wonder if it is true or not, as the claims acts a bit like urban lengends. Is anyone...

Thanks!
EDIT: Now when I am thinking about it, as it is only falling down 45 degrees, that drawing is not optimal. That drawing will create a huge gap behind the board. By changing the angle of back...

If the pivot is all the way in the front of the box, and just the tail coming up, there is another thing I can not uderstand: How do they keep the board down? I mean, wood floats, and add a bit of...

I am still a bit confused in how the pivoting is happening as the "hole" on the case is so far aft: http://mackhorton.com/Sharpie%20web/topside%20paint/port%20aft.jpg

For me it would be logical...

That sharpie is really nice. One thing I have been wondering when I checked the videos, how is the center board working (Or is there at all a center board?)? It looks like the boat would be able to...

... And to have MIK here again. He has not been active for a very long time. Hopefully he has also had a very nice time sailing somewhere.

If you anyway do not care about stability that much, why not an Quick Canoe Electric (Quick Canoe Electric – a simple, cheap electric powered boat. Square back Electric Canoe | Michael Storer Wooden...

So the shallow one is too shallow?

Here comes MIK's opinion about dories: Q&A Are Lightweight Dories Good Boats? - Michael Storer Wooden Boat Plans

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Thanks, it was exactly this kind of information I wanted. If you would compare the performance, how much more effort (a very roughly wild guess) do you need for QC when paddling to keep the same...

I have always been a curious person wanting to know why things are in a certain way. That is why I am asking so many questions, regardless if I am going to have use of it later or not. With this...

I have many times been wondering how QC is really comparing to Eureka when it comes to performance. I have not done any calculations, but it looks like Eureka would have less wetted surface, and thus...

I think PAR misunderstood my post. But that was a lucky mistake as it led to an interesting post from him.

I was not meaning that people should go and enlarge/shrink their rudder. I was just...

It really looks like a guess work for anyone wanting to understand it. MIK is not taking the rudder into account, while other do to some degree. Still I think MIK also knows that the rudder affects...

To me this looks like a lot of extra work for nothing as I can not see any benefit of it.

This is what I have planned to do (if I get time):

1. Making the inwale spacers a few millimetre...

Without testing empirically, it is even difficult to estimate how much more weight a cloth will add. It should be obvious that it is not just the weight of the cloth that is added, but also more...

Whoa! An "electric" quick canoe without the engine must be fun to sail. As it is not becoming narrow aft, it will probably "plan" very easily and get faster than what the theoretical hull speed would...

This is another reason to love the balanced lug! With most of the rigs, corrections will cost money.

I found one article that deals with half of the problem: Duckworks - Articles

The article still leaves out how to calculate a suitable lead for CE over CLR. I guess there the sheeting angle comes...

I have many times been wondering how the distance between mast and centerboard is actually calculated for a well balanced boat. We have had many threads with discussion about changes to the rig,...