Earlier you said:
> I was wondering if anyone has built any of the wooden "Instant Boats" =
> featured in Messing about in Boats or Dynamite Payson's books. They =
> look and sound easy from the descriptions, but I am wary. Are they as =
> simple as they say? Will they hold up or fall apart? How long do they =
> REALLY take to build? I just cleaned out the garage completely for the =
> first time ever, and am inspired!
>
> - Scott Foshee
> Charleston, SC
This may not be related, but last summer in Wooden Boat Magazine
from England there was an article by a fellow who had just returned from
the south pacific. He suggested a real quick, cheap way to make a sailing
vessle was to find a used canoe or make one and strap on
an outrigger and a claw sail. In college I did a paper on the fellows
who sail outrigger canoes in the South Pacific and these things
seem pretty sea worthy. The do not go well to the windward. This
tendency can be fixed by lashing on a dagger board and perhaps
using a marconi like sail instead of a claw sail.
The author of the above article built one for less than 30 pounds,
but he already had a canoe.
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