Hi Derek How about a sprit?Can be brailed up,short light spars and used Optimist sails are easy to aquire. Just an idea-Im no expert.Nice to see you're going...
Thanks for this. I always enjoy your writing. I am going trimaran with a pair of outriggers that Chris O is designing for me so narrow and rolloing should.nt...
Hi Neil Yep, I've had my op and I am now eight days insulin free so the future looks brighter. I'd like to build a lightweigh Paradox but don't want to miss...
Sounds like you are on to a neat boat from Chris's pen! I like the fact that he thinks in new ways, keeps the rest of us thinking too. Actually sailmaking is...
Thanks for the advice but sewing is only for the skilled in my book. My wife is a skilled machinist and patchwork quilter, but who wants a patchwork sail? I'd...
Hey All! I need some help. Over several long winters here in the East I've been working bit by bit on converting what is (I think) an old Mad River Courier...
Almost anything that resembles a canoe and floats willl sail with a leeboard, rudder and sails. I don't think 3" is too much rocker. Most sailboats have...
I sail a Mad River Explorer which shares much of it's design with the Courier. IMO 3" is not too much rocker for a sailing canoe and the shallow V gives it a...
White water boats, as a class of mass produced boats, often make better sailers. Besides rocker, they're usually fuller ended w/ more reserve buoyancy. We need...
1. Rocker. Good in whitewater canoes. Good in freestyle canoes. Not so good in canoes which you want to make go in straight lines. 2. Rockered canoes will...
Don't change a thing. Finish your rig and go sailing. Prove the old man wrong. Just be careful about how much sail you use on your first trips until you get...
Just sail the canoe, Grange... and have fun doing it. Most sailboats have a very pronounced degree of rocker compared to your canoe and they sail very...
Thanks, Chris. "Whitewater" isn't just on fast streams & rivers. Many of us sail in it much of the time if there's any wind---and w/ some load. The amount of...
I built a sponson sharpie/canoe thingy (pics in Photos - "Sponson Sharpie/Canoe"). It was based loosely on a Bolger sponson sharpie (Gloucester Yawl). It has...
My two cents - my favorite sail so far is a standing lug with a sprit boom. It's well-mannered out of the wind, self-vanging, goes okay into the wind and...
I put an old picture in the Exxon Valdez II album in Photos. I made a wishbone boom for that rig. Andy ... sprit ... okay into ... you ... Also, ... Chris ......
A balanced lug has more sail area before the mast. A standing lug can be boomless, have a boom at the foot of the sail or have a sprit boom. The tack of the...
Hi Derek, I have posted a picture of my canoe with its balanced lug yawl rig. Last page of the albums titled "Solway Dory Curlew Yawl Lug Rig". It is a lovely...
Thanks for that Brian I had a balanced lug on my Paradox. I like the idea of boomless or a sprit well above the head and will investigate that further but I...
Hi When I used my canoe as a single hull I had to be taught that to get the bow through the wind on a tack I had to lean to the leeward side to get the chine...
That's another thing I like about the lug yawl. the picture shows the helmsman's seat is not swept by the main boom, so with both sails self tending and not...
I am located in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Does anyone know a location that I can get the aluminum 6o61 T6 tubing needed for the spars? I ordered it from...
You can make your gaff spar sectional and ship it via UPS with no hassle at all. As to the local supplier, doesn't world famous multihull driver, Randy Smyth...
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