20th Bribie Island
Classic Boat Regatta May 18-20, 2018
For over 20 years, each May, Bribie Islanders have enjoyed witnessing Classic Boats, large and small, flocking into the Pumicestone Passage for a weekend of ‘Messing About in Boats’ and general fun on our fantastic waterway.
Making and Shaping Sailboat Foils
This article is intended to explain the basics of making and shaping wooden rudders, daggerboards and centreboards for leisure use. Your results may not be up to snuff for top level competition but your foils should be at least as good as those produced out of moulds by most production fibreglass boatbuilders. Most of this discussion is about dinghy foils but the general principles apply to large and small boats.
Gluing blanks from cedar planks. These were for my own Paper Jet skiff.
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Beautiful interior woodwork of bill Connor's Didi 40cr Alizée. Top quality amateur woodwork.
Radius chine plywood, as a boatbuilding method, started as an experiment and developed over the next decade to where it became a major part of my design business. About half of my new commissions in the past 20 years have been for this method in one form or another, from small day-sailers through to large cruising catamarans.
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