Videos – Capsize and recovery with the Oz Goose Sailing Dinghy
Capsize and recovery should be a routine part of small boat sailing. It should be practiced until you are confident. This means you can go sailing by yourself any time.
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Sailing in Waves with the OZ Goose Dinghy
Sailing in Waves with the Oz Goose. The wide bow causes concern, but here are some photos and videos of what we have found about sailing in serious waves and chop.
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.
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
Massive Nosedive Video, but all is fine sailing an Oz Goose – GPS shows 18 knots.
Racing was cancelled because of strong winds. But all the geese were out on the water. Some did speed runs including some massive nosedives and impressive GPS numbers, others just sailed around.
Oz Goose Nationals Slideshow – 17 boats.
The Oz Goose Nationals had 45 participants over the 2 days and 8 races. The most experience sailors came in first and second, but a relative newcomer to sailing slotted into third place.
Round the Volcano Regatta and Oz Goose Training
Two consecutive weekends of sailing saw a big jump in the boat handling of the Philippines Oz Goose fleet. A huge amount of help from the Taal Lake Yacht Club. We were also joined by members of the National Paralympic Sailing Team.
Hello world! Goose Duck Goose. All rectangular sailboats welcome, er, EVERYBODY welcome
The Oz Goose is fast (measured to 13.8knots (15mph) but is a great family boat that sails well with two adults and a bunch of kids aboard. The Goose is a simple stable sailboat for one or more persons. It is also fast – here is Ian Henehan’s goose at 10 to 12 knots (20 …