There are two very important things with this boat. Looking aft in the cabin – adult legs go under the cockpit seats. Perttu headed off on the boat for several days with a compact crewmember. The new shape of the world – or size – or something. He made some suggestions for the Oz stuff and I made some suggestions for his hull – it is really very simply constructed for a boat with so much surface area.Ī nice collaboration despite being about 10,000miles apart. Perttu spent hours doing really cool perspective drawings of the construction, I fiddled through my Oz stuff to grab what was needed for his plan. It includes all the methods to build the hull, centreboard and rudder, make the polytarp sail (though you can use regular sailcloth if you like) and make the spars.Ī low cost professionally made dacron/polyester sail designed by Michael Storer is available from Duckworks. So we got together via the net and worked it all out to produce a really good set of plans.Ībout 80 pages. He used the spars, sail and foils from my OzRacer. I couldn’t decide if it was the most crazy thing or most wonderful thing I had ever seen – but was sure it was great! He’s had it away on a couple of trips – he made this neat video of one of the trips. It makes a lot of sense for colder climates where it can be hard to find a warm and windless place to sleep. It uses the sail, foils and spars from his OzRacer/OZPDRacer. Most of the Duck community fell over with surprise when he introduced his really nicely resolved Ocean Explorer – an 8ft long cabin boat. Perttu in Finland built one of my OZ PDRacers (now OZRacer) last year as well as building a Quick Canoe that he built in the snow during the last winter and used for camping and daytrips.ĭuring this last winter he had a secret project. I wonder if it qualifies as a tiny house. Plans $40 from Duckworks and is complete with all details from making the hull to making the sail from a polytarp. This is the story of an actual three day trip of Perttu and his nephew in Finland. Owning “yacht” – you don´t have to be rich – only little playfully attitude. Plywood microcruiser for rivers and lakes – cabin and cockpit fitted into a tiny 8 foot sailboat which sails pretty well – see the video below!
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