Goose Explorer Full Plans PDF

This is a Newer version of the discontinued Ooze Goose.

The full plans contain both the OZ Goose plans and the Explorer Supplement - both are needed to build this boat. If you already have the plans for OZ Goose, you can build the Explorer by also purchasing the Explorer Supplement.

Goose Explorer:

Length 3666mm ( 12`3/8" )

Beam 1220mm ( 4` )

Goose Explorer is a cabin version of Michael storer´s OZ Goose sailboat with a bit more rocker.

These plans are supplements to OZ Goose plans and do not include plans for foils, sails and spars. Those parts must be build according OZ Goose plans. This version includes the OZ Goose plans.

The sail is similar to OZ Racer (lug rig ), Ocean Explorer and OZ Goose, so if you have built one of those boats you can use rig and foils also on Goose Explorer. Ready-made sail can be purchased HERE.

The OZ Goose has a stronger mast - it is possible that OZ Racer or Ocean Explorer´s mast might break in heavy wind! So I recommend building the mast according to OZ Goose plans.

The small cabin provides a cosy space for two or plenty of space for one sailor. The cockpit is really big so this boat is surprisingly spacey for its size.

With suitable winds this boat hops to plane - hii o hoi.

Perttu

Chris Curtis in Australia wrote the following piece about using the Goose Explorer.

An intro to my boat: Bencubbin

Josh Collins, in his wonderful introduction to his Navigator Trim, credited Sandy Mackinnon for inspiration on getting into dinghy cruising. Coincidentally it was an interview with Sandy on the ABC Conversations program that also led me down this path.

At school I had built a skin on frame kayak and later I had a windsurfer. I always had some interest in sailing and occasionally hired a Hobie but eventually rally cars, recumbent bikes and solar powered vehicles led me away from sailing. But the interview with Sandy led me to read about the Mirror dinghy and I learned about stitch and glue construction. Building a canoe sounded easy so I bought the plans for Mik Storer's Quick Canoe. Before I started building that, the plans for the Kombi were announced and that set me back on the sailing path.

The Kombi is a great and versatile boat but on overnight raids I started wishing for something a bit drier that didn't have to be completely unpacked and repacked each day. Many boat plans were considered with my requirements and constraints on time, budget, andnd workshop space. I came across the Goose Explorer. It was perhaps a bit too quirky for my taste. Then Teo, the Boat Rambler, compared several boats on his YouTube channel and the Oz Goose came out on top. Maybe quirky wasn't so bad.

Bencubbin was born.

The Goose Explorer was designed by Perttu Korhonen based on Mik Storer's Oz Goose. It is 3.6m long with a beam of 1.2m. It is powered by a single 8.27m2 balanced lug sail. The cabin could provide sleeping accomodation for two (but that would mean removing all the stuff from inside to make sleeping room). It is comfortable sleeping one with plenty of room on the other side for a few days gear.

Numerous videos of the Oz Goose show that it is a lively boat that can be sailed hard, but especially when loaded with camping gear I tend to sail Bencubbin fairly conservatively. With early reefing it is a comfortable and stable even in quite heavy winds. It does everything I hoped it would.

(There may, however, be another boat in the future. I just can't stop building things...)

 

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