A little off topic for this forum, but just wondering if any of you you guys ever built one?
Been on proa file, outrig, and a bunch of other sites. Just checking with the brains here too…
thanks
Hey Rob
How’s things stateside? I’m off to Aus round about September - moving somewhere around Sydney…
I have a mte who was working with me who built an out rigger sailing canoe - he made his from 8x4 sheets of ply in two halves that bolted together with bulkheads that join in the middle of the boat - he did the outrigger with half a paddlebaord blank that he picked up from homblown.
Here’s his blog - http://matarney.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/howls-from-pit.html if you get in touch with him through his blog he’d be happy to share his knowledge.
Cheers
Rich
Built many canadians over the years …keen to do a traditional outrigger in wood…
Son in Law’s first canoe…
Hey Rich,
Glad, and sad, to hear that you’re leaving your neck of the woods. Never made it down there(for a surf anyway) and regret that. But, I hope your move goes well, and I’m sure you’re stoked!
Things here are like everywhere, a little slower than normal, but can’t complain too much. Water is in the high 70s, sunny, and surfed twice today with a little work on the trimaran in between… Building boards at R&D - great bunch of folks there - and a few vacuum bagged little ditties at Corevac.
Thanks for the link to your friends blog. I’ll have a more detailed look this weekend. I’m planning to build it ply and frame style, like many other people. Am planning it to be something I can sail, paddle, or motor, and it has to be collapsible so I can haul it on the deck of my boat for crossings… oh yeah, and it has to hold a surfboard, fishing pole, spear gun and gear, small cooler, and a lovely lady when/if the time comes…
thinking 14’ main hull, 10’ ama, both asymmetric, bulkheaded bow and stern for floatation with a compartment in the ama for gear/goodies and open “cockpit” with an unstayed mast. It alsi has to be relatively light, so thinking of just using luan ply, with a layer of cloth, or maybe just 1/4" ply, sealed and painted.
sound like a crazy plan?
proneman - wow!
don’t think mine will be as ornate, or gorgeous as that! Mine will be more of a work boat.
But wow, that’s stunning!
Hi Royal,
Give us a ring or shoot us an email, grant@fiberglasshawaii.com, and we can get you dialed in. We work with the top canoe builders in the world so we have some good insight for you.
A friend of mine built two sailing outriggers on Maui a few years back. He used a strip-plank method. Not actual planks, but strips of cedar lath that he had cut and milled. Very similar to two inch redwood lath. He built plywood templates to fit the width and depth of the canoe and then temporarily tacked the strips to the templates. Once he got them all laid out, he filled and sanded the hull. With a little instruction from me, he fiberglassed the hull and then removed the templates. Installed an Ama, mast, tiller etc and sailed the canoe from Kihei to Lahaina for the Maui Canoe Festival. Oh! and he bought everything he needed to glass the hull from da boyz at Fiberglass Hawaii in Kahului.
Yeah McDing, thanks for the shout out!