... Wade, You can change both the format and the size (make smaller) of digital photos with a free program called Irfanview. http://www.irfanview.com/ 1)...
... It has always had this roller furling sail. After test sailing it in Oceanside harbor on a very windy day while learning how to use the foil while...
Hmm, I must have somehow missed the roller furling feature before. Maybe, that's because the Raptor Competition (the base model, so to speak) doesn't have...
Have decided to fit an aluminium tip to the leeboard, to increase its aspect ratio, length and area, and as protection when we bang it in stones, et cetera. ...
Yes it is a local traditional dugout canoe (haabjas called in estonian) , here in the area where I live, Soomaa National Park in Estonia. I have learned to...
I am partial to paddling a double-bladed paddle.Just a ... With "dry bags" it wouldn't be too bad, and you'd have abit more righting moment on that tack too....
My friend Scott rigged his 17' Discovery so I suggested we meet up and sail Great Bay out of Durham NH. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=43.06694&lon=- ...
The XCR trimaran that Chris Ostlind built for me is pretty much finished, so I put some new photos in a folder called XCR (click "last" to get there). A...
Jim Eric and I were at the RCABC meet in Sorrento last weekend to give an intro to canoe sailing course. It was the perfect opportunity to try a capsize in...
For a while I have been working on adding an extension to my leeboard, and maybe that can be of an interest - and there is one tool I use quite a lot, often...
Gary Dierking just published "Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes" out of McGraw Hill, International Marine. Hulls, amas (float hulls), akas (crossbeams), foils,...
Just happened upon this: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=49911§ion=homepage It was, when this article was written, not known if...
Hello -- I uploaded some photos of canoes of Ghana. They are copyright (c) Joan Malerba-Foran, for viewing only. I will delete them in a few weeks, since they...
Hello again, I also posted a photo of a "padua" from Ghana (one with fisherman straddling it, another with paduas up on pilings drying out. Again, (c)...
Well, I have been real quiet for a while but thought I would sing the praises of the Opti rig! I was up in RI this summer and just loved seeing all those sprit...
Hi Dan, I will add tramps at some point but first I'm going to build some hiking benches. There's no Mirage drive in this one. I wanted to keep the floor open ...
right on about the opti rig, i've been using one for a while here on our breezy coast. i like the easy 'adjustability' and short spars. i was using a larger...
Just got back from a test righting my boat with flotation installed. I cut up some blue rigid construction foam and built two plugs that fill just over 3' of...
What if the flotation -- perhaps three of those float cushions -- were lashed one one side of the canoe, so that when you rolled the canoe on its side (the...
Cool! I'll have to add that to my collection when I get back home. Brian Cunningham Swiftwood - my trimaran sailing kayak ...
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Did you decide whether or not the tri ... I still have all the stuff to sail it as a tri, but was having so much fun this summer sailing it as a tacking...
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