Oz Goose Sailboat Building Videos – Philippines Method
These are the step by step building videos that the Philippines group has made for building the Oz Goose from their prepared flat pack. It covers moving from 2D to a real 3D boat
Building a Goose
Lots of useful information about building the Oz Goose.
Articles and Tips for:
- Process for Building the Hull
- Rigging the sail cheaply but effectively
- How to avoid buying crappy materials
- What knots do I need.
- Fitting attachments the cheap way
- Avoiding pitfalls of Substituting aluminium or bamboo for the wooden spars
Effects of offset mast or leeboard – Lee helm and weather helm.
Centreboard and leeboard position on small sailing boats. Looking at design factors and how they lead to factors to be considered when sailing. How a lee helm feeling might not actually be lee helm as a truly balanced boat behaves a bit differently.
New Oz Goose Building Group USA – build a sailing dinghy in South East Virginia
The first USA Group building Oz Geese sailing Dinghies is underway in Portland South East Virginia. They received the materials a few weeks ago and got started. The eventual idea is to build a fleet. They are mostly experienced small boat sailors who are tired of the expense of racing conventional boats.
Oz Goose on Prime time TV in the Philippines.
On TV – Oz Geese and our super cheap group builds. Taal Lake Yacht Club Commodore (and winner of the recent nationals) shows host of ABS-CBN “On the Money” running through the costs and trying sailing for the first time.
Oz Goose vs Firebug Dinghy
Some people have asked me about the differences between the Goose and the John Spencer Firebug dinghy. Both are excellent boats but slightly different purposes – and one is much cheaper to get on the water.
Rope Sizes and fittings for the Oz Goose Rigging
he background thinking of this is that building boats in the Philippines means that many parts are not available.
This has forced us to eliminate fittings – it is unlikely that you will find another racing class with as sparse a list as this. And remember … we still want to win races, so this very small list has to work.
First Oz Goose in Hungary – Az első hazai OZGoose építése
Photos and links to a great photo essay of getting the first OZ Goose to the water in Hungary. Az első hazai OZGoose építése.
Useful drawings for builders – CAD model of Oz Goose
A set of wonderful Oz Goose construction images in CAD by Benjamin Shaw show just how easy it is to build.
They will be hugely useful to help builders understand the relationship of the different parts during building
2 Videos Rigging a Lug Rig – Oz Goose Sailboat or any Dinghy
A nice video on step by step rigging from our 10 boat build in Cebu last year. It applies to many small boat lug and lateen rigs.
Videos – Knots for Lug Rig Setup – Oz Goose Sailing.
There are just a few knots to learn. Part of the reason is that because we can’t buy sophisticated fittings in the Philippines we have found simpler and cheaper ways that cut out a lot of expense. By replacing manufactured parts with spectra rope as far as possible. In Australia, the USA, Europe, UK it will save you a big bundle of money when you rig your lug rig boat.
Bamboo for sailing dinghy spars – Oz Goose sailing dinghy
Is bamboo a good choice for small boat spars? As a professional designer I can’t specify bamboo because of a huge variation in density, wall thickness and diameter. However I can recommend some guidelines for bamboo for the Oz Goose to help with experiments.
Oz Goose Plans, Agents and Details
The Oz Goose plans available. One plan with all the detail for every step in the boat building. Includes sailmaking if you want to make your own. Step by step detail instructions with plenty of diagrams and photos.
Oz Goose Plans available from Agents worldwide
I’ve finished drawing up the plans for the new all-in-one-document Oz Goose plans. Lots of work and sailing to optimise the boat. Available in the next few days.
Order Oz Goose sails
Order sails for your Goose or OzRacer or PDRacer if you don’t want to make them. Available “off the shelf” from Duckworks USA – delivered promptly worldwide.
Rigging the Oz Goose, cheapest, most efficient lug rigs for any small boat
The cheapest rigging for a a lug rigged OzGoose no performance sacrifice. Poor availability of fittings in Asia means low cost innovation and fleet testing works for any lug rigged boats learned by sailing and racing the sixteen (now 27 as of last weekend) Oz Geese in the Philippines. Some money saving simplifications and some tweaks that will give a lot more performance to most lug rigged (and other boats). There is nothing unusual in these methods, just a translation of regular racing practice in more conventional boats. Don’t scoff – you can say “I’m a cruiser” – but there are times when everyone wants or needs to get upwind 10 or 20 percent faster.