Controlling Sail Twist on Balance and other lug rigs.
Controlling sail twist on any boat is critical for performance. Here we describe two methods for getting more performance all round and safer handling downwind.
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Vote! Best Goat Island Skiff photos of this year!
They get put in our 2020 Calendar for the GIS facebook group – just click “Like” or “Star” for the photos you like most.
Review of Viola 14 Canoe from Hungary
Read Jenő’s experience with the Viola 14 sailing canoe which is Michael Storer’s latest design – the second and the third boats were built in Hungary by two members of the Hungarian Amateur Boatbuilding community (hajoepitok.hu).
Article Le Chasse-Marée – Goat Island Skiff article
Editorial and Article praising the simplicity and performance of the Goat Island Skiff in “Le Chasse-Marée” magazine this month – France’s premier traditional and wooden boat magazine.
Videos of Viola 14 Sailing Canoe in a bit more wind
VIDEOS in Gusty Conditions in the Viola 14 Sailing Canoe they built 2 years ago. Viola (the person) and Joost practice for a RAID next week..
Taal SUP Review – Family Holiday in Germany
Review! Ahh, i made my first trip today. It was a pleasure. The ta‘al is fast and tracks well. I guess Faster than my first sup, the umpqua, which i built a few weeks ago. I decided for ta‘al mainly to Save weight and length due to transport with my bike.
New Photos of Viola 14 Sailing Canoe
New Photos of Viola 14 sailing canoe practice – Viola (the person) is back to sailing after a decade break. Her plan to sail the Viola 14 Sailing canoe in the RAID Extreme Sailing Event later in the year
Outrigger canoes and outboards – Speed and Power
A nice post by Brian Anderson who has built some outriggers for his Quick Canoe gives a good idea of how much performance can be expected from 2hp and a neat installation.
Denmark to Norway 90 miles in Open water – Goat Island Skiff
Sweden to Norway 90 miles in Open water – Goat Island Skiff. My dream sailing my Goat Island Skiff 90 nm open ocean stretch from Skagen Denmark to Færder Norway finally came true.
Record 5 Goat Island Skiffs at the Small Reach Regatta Maine
Photos! 5 Goat Island Skiffs at Small Reach Regatta break record. I was surprised – record for Goat Island Skiffs in one place was 4 – and at this regatta, 5 GISs. We could get three more next year?!
Extraordinary Boat (Sold) #1 – 12ft sailing dinghy BC Canada
Sailboat for Sale – an extraordinary, light plywood sailing dinghy. This is a prototype of the S12 sailing dinghy built with gaboon ply and full epoxy gluing and sealing. A project needing its conclusion.
Why the Goat Island Skiff is fast.
Why explained. My most popular design is the Goat Island Skiff a light plywood planing sailing dinghy that is devastatingly fast in most conditions – not so surprising when you realise a lot of the development was because of racing dinghy advances but intended to avoid the skyrocketing costs of sailing participation.
Small Sailboat Craned from 6th Floor
Building a sailboat in a confined space is not untypical, but Ermis in Greece built his Goat Island Skiff on the balcony of a 6th floor apartment and had to employ a very tall crane to lift the boat down.
Eureka Touring Canoe Review – Scotland
This plywood canoe has been tried and tested on some of the major lochs in Scotland as a touring canoe and performs extremely well when fully loaded.
Dance of the Two Violas – sailing canoe extended video
With two Viola 14 Sailing Canoes recently launched in Hungary the two skippers were filmed dancing around each other spinning like racing dinghies though they are actually are fast and elegant homebuilt plywood sailing canoes built from a boat plan.
TV News on 20 boat build by College Students in Butuan.
The last day of the 20 boat Oz Goose sailboat build brought out the cameras of the TV News as well as the student’s own view of introducing collegiate sailing into the Philippines for around the price of importing two Laser dinghies.
Viola 14 Blitzes a second RAID event in the Netherlands
The BRIO RAID was on last weekend and two sailing canoes participated finishing extremely well outright on handicap – both leading for a substantial part of the races at different times in a fleet of 150 boats
Detailed Lug Rig setup and rigging method for Viola 14 Sailing Canoe.
Joost Engelen has provided another hugely useful file for setting up the lug rig on the Viola 14 canoe.
Two Weeks and College Students Build 10 Oz Geese.
Just back from Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines where the PHBYC group I belong to has helped college students build 10 Oz Goose sailboats to initiate collegiate sailing at the fraction of the cost of commercially available boats.
Viola 14 Sailing Canoe Blitzes another RAID finishes an hour Ahead.
So had the tent pitched and was completely installed by the time the first boats started to arrive 1-1.5 hours later.