These are the step by step building videos that the Philippines group has made for building the Oz Goose from their prepared flat pack. It covers moving from 2D to a real 3D boat

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Centreboard and leeboard position on small sailing boats. Looking at design factors and how they lead to factors to be considered when sailing. How a lee helm feeling might not actually be lee helm as a truly balanced boat behaves a bit differently.

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The first USA Group building Oz Geese sailing Dinghies is underway in Portland South East Virginia. They received the materials a few weeks ago and got started. The eventual idea is to build a fleet. They are mostly experienced small boat sailors who are tired of the expense of racing conventional boats.

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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.

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Some people have asked me about the differences between the Goose and the John Spencer Firebug dinghy. Both are excellent boats but slightly different purposes - and one is much cheaper to get on the water.

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he background thinking of this is that building boats in the Philippines means that many parts are not available.

This has forced us to eliminate fittings - it is unlikely that you will find another  racing class with as sparse a list as this. And remember ... we still want to win races, so this very small list has to work.

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Photos and links to a great photo essay of getting the first OZ Goose to the water in Hungary. Az első hazai OZGoose építése.

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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

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A nice video on step by step rigging from our 10 boat build in Cebu last year. It applies to many small boat lug and lateen rigs.

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There are just a few knots to learn. Part of the reason is that because we can't buy sophisticated fittings in the Philippines we have found simpler and cheaper ways that cut out a lot of expense. By replacing manufactured parts with spectra rope as far as possible. In Australia, the USA, Europe, UK it will save you a big bundle of money when you rig your lug rig boat.

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