Easy to Build, Unsinkable, Car-Topable and Family-Friendly! Carries 3 Adults!! The OZ Goose! Week_07

[@emilianoalvarez7191]

Felicitaciones desde Argentina! Gran trabajo! Great job

[@TheBoatRambler]

Gracias! 😉

[@paulacreman4413]

Lovely video, as always great attention to detail, you had a real look of satisfaction at the end of the video, boat really coming together. See you soon.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks for watching Paul! 😉

[@JamesSmith-is7co]

Now she is a boat!!!

[@setkacagarro-blogspot-com]

Your mod was a great idea, you could even have put in 2 more and created a dry storage area, great idea buddy

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Nathan, if I was to put two more I would actually choose to make the mid seat a watertight storage box like on my GIS. But I want to see how it goes weight wise, and cartop it first before I add more weigh. 😉

[@setkacagarro-blogspot-com]

Understandable, your experience of the GIS seat mod may work better, but good idea to keep it light, you do want it fast 🙂

[@beyondthis7]

Love watching you work Teo... hurry up ok?

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks. I'm trying to keep the working hours during a week "achievable" by most so, I'm afraid I can't see it being ready before end of March. 😅😅

[@beyondthis7]

@@TheBoatRambler I know... you are a meticulous builder, and your end result always shows it, so whatever pace you go, it's fine and I'm glad you do it that way. In comparison, I'm far less conscientious and for that reason, build only adequate boats. It's nice to see it done right, and shows your superior craftsmanship, in comparison to my impatience to get the job done.

[@DavidD6969]

Great video 👍

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks!

[@noldushumlesnurr6169]

Nice boat. Nice build series. Nice video production. Thanks.

[@TheBoatRambler]

thanks for watching! 😉

[@Jim-vi4hh]

Great video and tips. I think your modification to the side tanks is a great idea. Very little weight is added and is lighter than adding foam blocks in the tanks. The plywood tabs on the drywood screws for clamping pressure is genius, I do have two questions for you. 1. You were able to push the outside gunwale toward the centerline of the dinghy to your match line on the top of the side deck to pre-drill the screw holes. What if you needed to pull the gunwale away from the centerline to your match line? The inside edge of the side deck was already secured so you might not be able to push the gunwale with your steel rule as you did previously for the inside wall of the floatation tank. 2. You applied epoxy to the butt strap on the side deck that slid under the fore deck. I did not see how you clamped this joint to the under side of the fore deck. Thank you for providing such a great video on how to build the Oz Goose. It will inspire a lot of first-time builders to give it a try. Take care.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Jim, 1 to pull the gunwale I just did it with the fingertips, it was only like a couple of mm, not easy when drilling at the same time but it works. If it's too much just partially drive a screw under the gunwale and pull from there. 2 if you notice, I didn't flatten the glue "beads" on the but strap meaning they are like 4 to 5mm in height. Once the deck is in place I'm sure that there's is no more than 1 or 2 mm gap (if any) so the epoxy gets squished naturally...that's what my thought anyways... 😅 but if you want you can make a 3.5mm passing hole on the deck and drive a drywall screw to the center of the butt strap, that will clamp it tight. Cheers, Teo

[@knolltop314]

well done!

[@TheBoatRambler]

Thanks! 😉

[@RulgertGhostalker]

good tip on the soldering iron .... heat also makes a fastener slightly longer, as if loose.

[@TheBoatRambler]

That's a tip on the "general boat building tips" in the manual!

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@TheBoatRambler yeah i did catch that... i couldn't think of a better way to get heat into it.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@TheBoatRambler i figured it out !!! ___________________ in a world without sub-saharans there would be no "popular opinion." only the social cohesion we need. so who is expecting everyone to substitute their need for social cohesion, with an artificial "popular opinion" ? facts are facts, if they are facts, and nothing anyone thinks about them changes that. fact: subsaharans constantly strive to elevate popular opinion above factual matter, because that's where their bullshit finds power over people's reality.

[@BensWorkshop]

Excellent work! It is amazing how stiff closing the box makes a structure.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Indeed!! It was really unstable before, and with 4mm plywood I was starting to have my doubts! 😅

[@BensWorkshop]

@@TheBoatRambler A I built my shed it was wobbly. Still wobbly but less when I put the rafters on. Solid as a rock when I fixed the roof!

[@geneberry7114]

You are a very meticulous builder, that's why your boats look so nice. I am much more sloppy with my builds but so far they have sailed pretty well. Also I like hearing the mourning doves in the background while you are building. : )

[@nickgoodall578]

Most boats look better from 50’ away. Teo’s Goose is going to be the exception that proves the rule: it’s going to get prettier the closer you get 😂

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi guys! There are some really well built and well finished Geese out there even 100% varnished! Mine will be just another Goose, except to me ofc! 😁

[@joschmoyo4532]

If you ever needed an object lesson in structural stiffness with minimum weight you just show someone an eggshell. It is the classic monocoque structure. Most boat hulls are essentially a half egg shell in shape so you need bulkheads to stiffen the shell so it doesn't twist. You create a torsion box within a torsion shell. But the real genius lies in closing the lower shell with an upper shell by making a double bottomed hull. A fully enclosed hollow shell. If you have lateral bulkheads inside that double bottom you can use a very thin ply skin. In the old day's rubbing strakes protected the bottom skin from abrasion instead of heavy fibre glass. The strakes also gave better stability for a very very small increase in drag. The introduction of sharp bowed sailing vessels with vertical prows revealed another benefit. Greater control and pointing ability up wind. Even today, not many designs have bows sharp enough to get that benefit but once you've sailed a boat that bites in to the water upwind you never want to go back to slapper hull shapes and their characteristic booming thumping noise upwind. I really think the goat island skiff is, while a good design, not fully realised in form. It could be so much more with a bit more beam, a double bottom and an extra chine. Better still with four chines per side. With modern laser cutting accuracy a kit would be so easy to stitch and glue and give a hull shape that is beautiful and functional.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Josch, we all like to dream, and pretending is part of human nature. Of course I dream of a fine plumb bow, ultra-light weight, fast, spacious for 3 ppl, stable, car-topable, dry, unsinkable, cheap and easy to build skiff. What I can’t do, even as a human, is pretend that readymade plans for such a design exist! During the last few years I looked at dozens if not hundreds of skiffs and nothing came close to beat the OZ Goose for what I need. And to restrict my choice to the argument that “I can’t be seen in such an ugly boat” is completely against my nature. Function over form. During a few months I asked you guys to show me a design to beat the OZ Goose and it just didn’t happen. not even close! So was I supposed to pick a pretty boat instead of a functional boat so that people don’t feel offended by the shape of the Goose? It will allow me to have a lot of fun and if the only price I pay is being seen sailing an ugly boat or some thumping noise aboard on some points of sail…so be it. As for the “better GIS” if it is wider than the standard 5ft beam it can’t be cartoped, if you put a double bottom you add the weight of another two sheets of plywood, removing the chinelogs won’t make up for that weigh, saving weight on the gunwales is possible but they are an amazing feature and super practical. Also you can’t go much lighter on the outer plywood since the design has a lot of freeboard and is supported only by three frames. With four chines it’s no longer a simple build…so, no longer a GIS and it will fail on some important requirements! I will probably design my own little cruiser skiff someday, and probably it won’t even be much better than whatever already exists. But that requires time and money and some know-how that I’m still lacking and will have to acquire. Still I can already guarantee that it will be designed around MY requirements and not on how it looks. But for now, and to the best of my knowledge, that dream skiff does not exist...yet! Bring on the OZ Goose! 😁

[@RulgertGhostalker]

i thought the general consensus was: that baffled ships with enough momentum to rip themselves open on something Are sinkable. HOWEVER, light skiffs, with not the inertia to rip themselves open on something, being baffled, are generally then Un-sinkable.

[@TheBoatRambler]

well Eric, in this case even if it was possible to rip it open on all but one side it still wouldn't sink! 😁

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@TheBoatRambler you are doing an exemplary job of it to be sure .... it will will be one of the best OZ Gooses in existence, no doubt.

[@TheBoatRambler]

I'm actually very sure that there are a few Geese built to higher standards than mine, I'm going for an easy relaxed build and not having as much attention to detail as I had on my GIS, maybe that previous experience is helping a bit and things just happen more easily...

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@TheBoatRambler when it's coming together clean and solid... which one is "the best" is always subjective anyway.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@TheBoatRambler thank the freakin goshness russia developed hypersonic missiles, Just In Time as the senile heroin addict, with absolutely no mind of his own, took office. i think it is because most non-addict americans cant even begin to explain the atrocities, that they don't. suffice to say, just because the corruption in america is entirely beyond the human ability to comprehend, does not mean it does not exist ....... it does exist, it's just that what the rest of the world sees is media edited by african heroin......it's a 300+ year old substance hostage situation here.

[@hurdurdur7rl696]

I probably would have sidestepped from the plans a little bit there and added more strips or semi-bulkheads into the top are of side tanks. Not that much that it would have changed much weight overall but guaranteed by themselves reasonable parallelism and extra strength (both vertical and horizontal). Would it make sense to pre-treat the screws somehow to make them less sticky? Starts to look like a boat now. I hope it gets a cheery colorful look in the end :)

[@benalla39]

Oh no! It would be such a waste to cover up all that perfect work with paint! Just paint the bottom safety orange, hope no one ever see that part again and varnish the rest

[@hurdurdur7rl696]

@@benalla39 i didn't mean a "white meh". i meant a proper portugese boat paintwork ... like their traditional boats are.

[@benalla39]

@@hurdurdur7rl696 That will be interesting. Watching Teo build boats, I learn about myself. I am much less fussy than him. Somewhere between us would be optimal IMO. The only thing I really don't agree with him about is colour. Forager would have been a much nicer looking boat in a much lighter colour. And of course painting it once would have been more than enough for me. No paint is ever more perfect than the paint you already have that is still doing its actual job of preserving the structure. Having said that, the traditional Portugese coloured boats look...well...cute. In a similar way to how over decorated SE Asian commercial vehicles look cute, which is to say supremely ugly, bit so foreign looking to me that I can chalk it up to cultural differences and feel happy for the poor misguided owners who really believe that looks good

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hey guys, I'm not sure how I will paint the boat tbh...I will varnish the inside like the cockpit seat, also the foils, spars rudder bux and tiller...but the outer hull...not sure yet. One thing I know is that the side decks should be white if I don't want to scorch my butt on summer! Even the lightest color makes a difference on surface temperature.

[@MichaelAppleby_art]

@@TheBoatRambler You are right about the butt scorching problem, but on the other hand, I built a stitch and glue rowing boat during lockdown and painted the whole interior brilliant white. It burns my eyeballs out (even with sunglasses on) when I take her out. But I guess with the rest of the interior in varnish, it won't be too bad.

[@MichaelAppleby_art]

Sod it Teo ! you are so neat and tidy, and so accurate that you make me want to puke. Nice idea about the internal bulkhead for safety. I got my side decks glued down a couple of days ago, and as a last minute brainwave I fitted similar baffles (3 per side) made from 10mm PU foam tabbed in with PU glue. They don't form watertight bulkheads and the main reason for fitting them was to (hopefully) dampen the sound when bashing upwind - I don't want to feel like I am sailing inside a guitar ! Anyway, keep up the good work.

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Michael, you might be on to something there with the insulation idea ....😏

[@Chinchilla27150]

It's an attractively clean and spacious/practical boat from the perspective of the cockpit, and I'd argue that this is far more important than how it looks to others as you sail. I continue to find your work ethic and methods inspirational. You are as meticulous as I am but far more methodical and focused. Can't wait to see this goose fly.

[@TheBoatRambler]

I admit I have the same feeling when I look to the cockpit and side decks, comparing to my GIS. It's only when I look at the bow that I miss my GIS! 😁

[@christophejournoud2773]

Hi, You could add some PSE block in the tanks that are more safe than an empty box then it happens to be a hole

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Christophe, Even using the light PSE blocks at 12kg/m3 to fill the tanks would still add 6 kgs to the build.

[@christophejournoud2773]

@tRamblerI knew you would answer that 😄. There are very few probabilities she is at risk to sink

[@colvingazelle]

Why didn’t you mark the square holes by tracing with a pencil (reaching through the access port in the bulkhead}? Then you could have cut them out before you glued the deck on

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi, I will use the router to open it more accurately.

[@felipefaria]

Teo, poderias me tirar uma dúvida, por gentileza? Por que tu não dás uma demão de epóxi nos cantos onde tu fazes as colagens?

[@TheBoatRambler]

Oi Felipe, dizem os entendidos que colares duas peças diretamente sem cobertura previa produz uma colagem mais forte. O que não quer dizer que depois de cobertas, e as areas de colagem despolidas/lixadas , a união não seja forte o suficiente.

[@felipefaria]

Entendido. Obrigado pela resposta!

[@trevorleak8517]

By the way...I want some answers as you are in a unique position OK?

[@TheBoatRambler]

Hi Buddy, Portugal is one of the European countries with the biggest amount of bureaucracy and fees for just about everything so you will have to be more specific with what exactly do you need help with.

[@joschmoyo4532]

Its looking more and more like a shoe box everyday. Ive seen prettier looking coal barges.

[@benalla39]

Actually, watching it take shape gradually has had the shape literally growing on me. The compromise is starting to make sense. Lightweight and flat bottomed with the right rocker means once you get it to plane it will plane well and everything else square means it's very easy to build, even for Teo who is a pedant for accuracy and much much easier for a typical person who can accept within 2mm as perfect plus the very definition of a fun, stable platform. Like everything, appreciating its value actually makes it look good. That's how we learned to like other boat shapes too after all

[@joschmoyo4532]

@@benalla39 I'm a woodworker by trade. I've worked for several boat builder's. I've sailed all sorts of boat's over the year's. Thoroughbreds and bath tubs. But a kitchen sink ? I dunno about that. But if I ever see a square fish with a blunt nose I don't think I'll reel it in. I've seen a few plain ugly yacht tenders over the year's and that's fine. It's functional to get from A to B. But the thought of driving this boat upwind makes me shudder as much as the boat will shudder. There is nothing worse in a short steep chop. Seaworthiness is not just about buoyancy. Accuracy is a skill. But not so difficult to master. It's just a matter of taking the time to jig up properly. Personally I work to fractions of a millimetre. 1 tenth of a Mil. Often less. It's not such a huge deal on a simple hull like this though. The novelty of simplicity is not the same as virtue. Without function it is a fad.

[@benalla39]

@@joschmoyo4532 :) We are going to see how it sails before long I'm sure

[@joschmoyo4532]

@@benalla39 I'm sure it will be fun off the wind if you keep it flat. I've never really enjoyed sailing flat bottomed boats much though. I remember sailing a topper once in a blow. It was planing but it was underwhelming. Lasers are the same. Vastly overrated and torture to hike. If only the RS 200 was available in ply kit form with a slightly longer hull it would be a fantastic cruising dinghy with performance to make fast safe passage.

[@TheBoatRambler]

...and yet no one could point out a better design for my requirements! 😉