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Cozy Boat

Step 10And In the Water

How stable is it? About that stable.
Now floating nice and high with all that closed-cell foam, a little bailing and the boat is back bobbing on the water like before.

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Nov 28, 2006. 3:08 PMPotroast says:

Great article. I learned something on some skin on frame site. I think the tippyness may result from being so round bottomed. The site I looked at the guy made his ribs with a nice arc. He test floated it in the pool with a temporary plastic drop cloth skin. Too tippy, pulled all the ribs out, made them a very boxy, flat bottomed U shape by thinning the ribs at the corners of the U and that worked out well.

I admire the heck out of you guys for trying and succeeding. You might want to check out http://capefalconkayak.com/jwboat.html to see a slightly bigger, but suprisingly similar boat that was featured on the cover of woodenboat magazine in august.