Hey all, First of all, i would like to apologyse for my poor english writing as i live in New caledonia and my native tongue is french. We arre happy to...
Sorry, I didn't notice that Facebook mailed all people and all groups I'm member of, or have been member of, with the invitation to join Facebook - deeply...
Congratulations, he looks very impressive. Please keep us informed about your sailing trials and send more photos. Are you building it on The Isle of Pines?...
Hello, The boat (Meryémana) was not building in The isle of Pines. She have been built in South New Caledonia in Paita in the campaign. Now she is on a beach...
Hi Philippe, A truly beautiful looking craft that you have.....as you say " looking to a drua". After reading your first message i looked at my research...
Philippe, It is indeed a very impressive boat. Could you give us a bit more details on the construction technique? When I look at the photo of the inside of...
Hello Jerry, thank you for your interest to "Meryémana". She is a traditional pirogue of isle of pines. But this model is what J. Neyret called double hull...
Hello Philippe, Yes, your account of influence from Tonga is exactly the way I understand how rig development took place. Most interesting to me is that the...
Hey all, I know i am on a english speaking site but if you want more infos on Meryémana and if you want to improve your french as well, you can go to this url...
Oh! Oh!, I've obviously introduced a controversial subject (origins of shunting versus tacking) to this thread about Mery'emana ..... strange but true since...
... have only a few late foreign observers who wrote things down and drew pictures (I for one am glad we have at least those), although a general idea is that...
... after an earlier wave of non-shunting craft had spread Eastwards, then why did Tahitians and Hawaiians not latch onto it like the Samoans, Fijians and...
... Hi If you're interested in this I encourage you to get a copy of Edwin Doran Jr.'s book "Wangka". Doran was a Texas A&M professor and researcher who did a...
I think a case might be made that double canoes are good a certain thing(s) such as load carrying, and single outriggers good at another certain thing(s). The...
... I was hoping to experience Doran's estimation of the double outrigger during the EC, but alas, even though we had one day of sailing, the wind was too...
... Latex porch and floor paint, mixed to "the brightest non-neon green you can manage", put on with a disposable paint pad. Smoother than either rolling or...
+1 for the porch/floor paint. I wooded and fiberglassed my forward beam a number of years ago (4-5?) I painted it (after returning a single part poly paint!)...
Thanks, I've been deliberating the one part perfection vs. the porch and floor paint. My amas on my Ulua tend to wrinkle a bit if left in the water for a...
The Benjamin Moore paint is very good. I have been told they use it in the dairies here in NZ and pressure hose it down after the cows have been through. If...
A few more thoughts.. How glossy do you want it? If you want a really glossy, mirror-like spray finish, you will have to go with two pot polyurethane. It...
I believe you have to be careful about painting epoxy. A friend of mine used "regular" house paint on a small homebuilt beach catamaran many years ago and he...
Dan, the beam gets regularly splashed (as do I!) if the boat is on a close reach in a good breeze with moderate swells. But I wouldn't call it constant. I have...
... I used latex porch enamel on P52 and will recoat with polyurethane porch enamel soon. Bottom is coated with epoxy/graphite powder (about 30% graphite by...
On the other hand, an oil-based marine paint really has teeth. I used Petit with primer on my dory, a poor boat that has suffered so much abuse. I last painted...
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