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Skin-on-Frame: How about canoe sailing . . . . *PIC*
By:Dave Gentry
Date: 9/27/2011, 10:11 pm

A bit off topic in a kayak forum, but perhaps interesting to some.

I've been working on this for a while, off and on, but I'm just now putting the finishing touches on my new SOF sailing canoe design. She's 16 feet long, 30 inches wide, with 93 square feet of sail area. Weighs about 55lbs. Totally decked over, clearly, and sailed from a sliding plank seat. I'm hoping she'll satisfy my need for speed (I was an avid dinghy racer, years ago).

She can be sailed as a sloop, a yawl, or with a single sail (una rig).
Read more about it, with more pics, here:

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?137392-I-had-a-dream!-a-thread-about-my-latest-boat

This pic is just the hull, obviously (ignore that rudder fitting!). I'm still working on the boom and running rigging.

Questions and comments welcome, of course!

Dave Gentry

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Skin-on-Frame: How about canoe sailing . . . . *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 9/27/2011, 10:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/28/2011, 1:53 am
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Yostwerks -- 9/28/2011, 8:59 am
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Stephen Troy -- 9/28/2011, 11:06 am
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Yostwerks -- 9/29/2011, 10:08 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 3:44 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/28/2011, 7:21 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 9/28/2011, 8:13 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 2:03 am
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Dave Gentry -- 9/29/2011, 8:35 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 3:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 3:48 pm