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Peter,

I was told that the boat looked quite good in the water when I was paddling it on my own with the back seat in the original position.

When I had my usual passenger [or fellow crew...

I am back from my holiday and I have nothing but good news!

The fatter Eureka performed perfectly and seemed quite stable now even though the seats were just sitting in the boat and were pretty...

My summer holidays have arrived again and I started looking at my Eureka to get it ready to go away. It is a fine looking craft! I have still to replace the seats and so I think that I will just...

I thought that it was disguised swearing.

I know that in some English word 'F' is spelt 'gh'.

I guess that by a long stretch of the imagination one could pronounce 'gkl' as 'ck' but I could...

Cliff,

Are you the mole or the rat??

Well I am not much of a boat builder but I have made my living for many years thinking of the best way to tackle a problem.
I try to think of how to do a job rather than how not to do it.

Maybe...

By the way, Miss Trish looks very nice!

There are some of the problems!

It is supposed to measure 856 at the centre spreader - a fact I was only told after I had tipped it over.

Also the seats turn out to be too high for a 90 k...

The Eureka is ideal for the conditions you have mentioned except that I do not believe that it will fit into your budget.

If you look at the building thread you will see my estimated costs.

I...

I bought all of the material from Duck Flat.

The original pack cost about $750.

I spent $82 on varnish but I have about half of it left.

I ran out of ply from 2.5 sheets.

I have several...

Loverly weather for Ducks!

I met up with a couple of mates tonight armed with some information from the internet about the PD and we have all agreed to construct a boat for the 2007 Goolwa PuddleDuck World Championships.
...

Having tackled building the Eureka after a break of 40 year from boatbuilding I think years of alcohol abuse must have addled my brain as I am giving serious consideration to building a PD for the...

Hi,

I also had my Eureka in the water late last evening [Sunday February 26}.

It was a fairly windy day at West Beach and I had the same nervous and inexperienced crew that I tipped out on the...

I have widened the canoe to the designed [but uspecified] width and repaired the damage that caused.

I have finished it without the seats as I will settle on seat heights after the sea trials.
...

The real question is - has anyone completed an Eureka so that they can compare notes with me?

I suddenly feel all alone venturing into uncharted territory where no man has gone before.

Courage...

I actually meant when it was in the water not on the work bench!!!

I wonder if other people have experienced the instability that I found with the Eureka?

What a bugger of a job.

The sides of my canoe are as stiff ..... well they needed a lot of force to distort them.

As is usual for a computer programmer I spent a lot more time devising a...

OK, I've taken the seats out and cut the spreader close to the gunwale [there was no way that the screws were coming out].

Now, has anyone any bright ideas as to how I might get enough force to...

Hi Michael,

I have been exercising my mind all day [whilst also grinding out a computer programme or two] on how to tackle the widening.

One of my thoughts was to cut the spreader at the...

Peter,

I think that your slotted seats look very nice.

Maybe I will take the easy way out and do that. I mean - easier than trying to import seats from the USA!

Doug

My spreader is that shape because I was in a great hurry to take my canoe on my annual vacation. I am unhappy with the stability of the boat so I will most likely try to make it a bit more beamy.
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Thanks Michael,


As you know my boat is currently 745mm at the spreader. You told me that another boat was 800mm. I still do not know what the designed beam is at the spreader.


Doug

I don't know exactly when I started but I see from the photos that I had it all stiched up by 15/12/05 but no glass yet. I took it away coated but not varnished on January 6. According to my Visa...

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Thanks for the photo editor help.

I have made my living programming computers for over 40 years and I am completely up-to-date on some programming techniques but I cannot keep up with all of these...

One of my problems was that I could not find any mention of the designed width at the centre spreader and I didn't trust that little drawing to be to scale.

Also the plans say put the seat support...

I am back from Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsular and I have completed the first sea trials of my Eureka.

Due to an inexperienced crew the first thing that happened was that we got tipped out. I...

For now I am using $10 a pop paddles from Glasscraft until I make two single paddles using Michael's free plan.

Hi. I am also in the thros of building a (an) Eureka.

The truth is, I suppose, that I finished the structure this afternoon and tomorrow I want to finish the coating.

The rush is that I want...