October Dinghy Cruising on Lake Constance with my Goat Island Skiff

October dinghy cruising on lake Constance with my new build Goat Island Skiff XL. Start at Öhningen-Oberstaad to Insel Reichenau and back.

[@karlthompson1961]

Your GIS is stunning!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

[@johnstephen2869]

Love your GIS. She looks beautiful and a credit to you. I also have one in NZ that I built 2 years ago. Perfect boat and easy to handle for an old guy like me :) keep up your filming of a very high standard, thank you and keep safe, John.

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

Hello John, thanks to you. Season just starts here in Germany and yes the plan ist to make some more little films about sailing here at the lake. Stay healthy Axel

[@PJMoskal]

Great looking GIS! I'm a dingy sailor as well and I live not so far from Lake Constance in Switzerland. Maybe we will see each other on the lake when the season starts :)

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

Thanks, I sail the most time at the "Untersee" it's the part of Bodensee between Konstanz and Stein am Rhein.

[@PJMoskal]

@@aw-marinebootsbau3224 I find it difficult to access the lakes in Switzerland with a boat on a trailer. The problem lies in parking the car with the trailer :) Do you have access to the lake on the German side where one can just come with a boat on a trailer, launch the boat and leave the car with the trailer in a parking space? I lived in the US for a long time and that was a normal practice but in Europe things seem to work differently. Any advice would be appreciated.

[@Antipodean33]

I can't believe how this clip was recommended, despite me always searching for Goat Island skiff clips and this one never come up. (in fact many of the ones recommended have never come up when I've typed in a search. i've been searching for my next build after selling my trailer sailer, I want something which is easier to deal with and will suit my style of sailing, fishing, diving and just camping overnight on remote beaches down here in Southern Australia. I've decided on the GIS and now seeing this lengthened version I want to know all about it. Have you got any info concerning the lengthening design etc? Cheers for the great clip, these are such nice little boats

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

Hello the lengthened Version is just stretched from 4.75m to 5m. All mesurements in longitudinal direction where stretched. I enlarged the sail too (near 12m²). The topweight increases, boom, yard and mast are ab bit heavier, so I suggest to use the standard rig meaurements or use carbon tubes (nearby 10m²). Thats enough. You can find more Information on www.aw-marine.com within the next weeks. In moment the site is under construction. Hope we finish before october.

[@Antipodean33]

@@aw-marinebootsbau3224 Great thanks and I'll definitely check out the link

[@Apollux]

@@aw-marinebootsbau3224 Was is the reason to stretch the GIS only 0.25m ?

[@liamstone3437]

It seams you added 27 cm to your length. Where did you add it and why?

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

I elongated all measurements in the ratio of 5:4.75 so its very homogenius. Therefore I had to draw the boat totaly new. I did the job on Delftship boat modeling software and did the construction drawin with a 2D CAD program.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Nice video and great boat!! 👍

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

Hi Teo, I like your extremely inspiring videos. Waiting always for the next... Can you sail in wintertime there in Portugal?

[@TheBoatRambler]

@@aw-marinebootsbau3224 Thanks! Yes we could sail all year if we wanted to but most ppl choose to get the (bigger)boats out of the water between November and March for maintenance. I will bring my GIS home before Xmas for some changes/maintenance this year.

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

@@TheBoatRambler Fortunately you have a small boat and can go on makin' some videos for us freezing and waiting sailors, shortening our days until we hit the water next spring! I'm interested in what you will change.

[@Calatriste54]

Prima, gern! Wir whont im NW WA State, USA bei das Strait of Georgia.. und wir liebt das wasser.. Machst du, das boot? Schone, Danka, sehr! (Ich bin eine Berliner-JFK 63)

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

Thanks, yes I built it by my own. on my website you find more about the boat.

[@joelwickard2862]

Did you make or build that trailer? I'm getting to build my first Goat Island

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

It was an old one standing around at my boatyard. I build it up new. Painting, Rollers, electric etc.

[@pinkfloatsailing3089]

Welche Hölzer hast du für Spanten etc genommen? Kiefer?

[@AxelWeissenberger]

Hallo John, die Spanten, Kimmstringer etc. sind aus Cedro, Botanischer Name: Cedrela Odorata. Ist ein sehr leichtes Mahagonie. Kennt man als Zigarrenkistenholz und hat einen ausgesprochen aromatischen Geruch. Verschnitt macht sich im Kleiderschrank gut um Motten fern zu halten. (Tatsächlich...) Das Bugband, Die Scheuerleiste und das Dollbord ist aus festerem aber auch schwererem Sapeli Mahagonie. Ebenso die Steven des Schwertkastens. Da es sich schon um etliche Meter Leiste handelt ist eine spürbare Gewichtsersparnis gegenüber schwererem Mahagonie oder Lärche. Als relativ leichtes Austauschholz ist Fichte geeignet. Fichte rottet schneller. Spielt aber bei guter Lagerung (trocken ausser man segelt!) keine Rolle da die Boote ja nicht im Wasser bleiben. Meine Wahl viel auf Cedro anstatt Fichte schlicht weil ich es da hatte. Da ich auf die Wahl leichter Hölzer achtete ist der Rumpf trotz Verlängerung auf 5m und Laminat auf der Aussenseite recht leicht geblieben (ca. 70kg) . Ach Ja Kiefer kann man ebenfalls sehr gut verwenden! Das Rigg hatte ich aus Kiefer gebaut. Würde ich nicht mehr machen. Ist zu schwer. Besser leichte Fichte oder Spruce (schwer ranzukommen).

[@ljd8520]

What type of boat is it ?

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

it is a Goat Island Skiff designed by the Australien Designer Michael Storer. I build it a bit longer with a bigger mainsail because of our low winds here.

[@dionwebber708]

What is the silver pipe in front the boat?

[@johnstarkie9948]

@@dionwebber708 It’s a bowsprit.

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

@@dionwebber708 It's a retractable gennaker boom which comes out by hoisting the gennaker by itself.

[@aw-marinebootsbau3224]

@@johnstarkie9948 Yes!