Oztayls-Restoring and sailing a vintage scow Moth

This is the little high performance 12 foot Dabchick that most South African kids cut their sailing teeth on. I learned to sail on these and...

On Saturday 5th October I took Max to Grahamstown Lake near Newcastle, NSW. The lake is fresh water fed from both runoff and the Williams Ri...

The control lines had seen better days so I ordered some 4mm Spectraspeed. I like this stuff very much as it is tough and has a hard low fri...

I found a few broken strands in the stainless steel wire shrouds, so they need replacing. The working life of ss wire stays is around 10 yea...

A common method used for spreaders in the 60’s and through to the 90’s was to make up the spreaders by riveting together some 1” x 1/8” alum...

I really like the design of the stock and tiller on this boat. It is very Mothie. What I mean by this is that it’s minimalist in every sense...

Due to the staining on the rear deck area I decided to paint this also. For anti-slip on other boats I’ve used sugar or caster sugar mixed i...