Sailing canoes

[John Gearing]

Thought I'd nip around the web a bit and gen up some pics of sailing canoes from here and there. Sailing canoes....neat stuff.

This one from the Deptoe Bay Wooden Boat festival:
http://www.boat-links.com/DepoeBay/00/Canoes.jpg

[ 04-08-2003, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: John Gearing ]

[Bruce Taylor]

Got the red x, John...the URL for that IMG seems to be located at The New Criterion site.

[John Gearing]

Should be better now, Bruce.

[John Gearing]

How about log canoes on Chesapeake Bay??

http://www.hillmancapital.com/photoGray/covers/P008289.jpg

Or a Micronesian voyaging canoe?

http://www.tritonfilms.com/Wa.jpg

[ 04-08-2003, 06:45 PM: Message edited by: John Gearing ]

[Steve Lansdowne]

How about sources of sailing canoe hardware? I'm going to do an Oughtred Wee Rob and am wondering about pintles and gudgeons that will fit.

[John Gearing]

Try these guys:

SPRINGFIELD FAN CENTERBOARD CO.
413-783-5589
20 TREETOP AVE SPRINGFIELD, MA 01118
& CUSTOM SAILINGG HARDWARE
BOB LAVERTUE

I've not dealt with them, but I believe they will
have the hardware you want, as they deal in hardware for sailing canoes. Check out their fan centerboards too! Reduces the intrusiveness of the centerboard trunk in the boat, though some say that they are not as rigid as a one-piece cb.

[Bruce Taylor]

Great pictures, John.

Steve, I made my rudder hardware from brass straps and tubing, following instructions for building Piccolo published in WB magazine. It was not difficult, and the fittings have served me well, so far.

I didn't have to do any welding...just a bit of hot bending and light soldering.

[brian.cunningham]

:cool:

[John A. Campbell]

Great pics, John, and one question.....where is Deptoe Bay? Also, to anyone in Forumland.....which wooden boat festival is most likely to produce the greatest number of sailing canoes? My bride of 44 years and I are planning to attend a couple of shows this year and haven't settled on anything specific.....would appreciate feedback.

I have finished lofting Piccolo sailing canoe ....gave it over 100 hours and it's dead accurate and am making molds out of 3/4" Baltic birch plywood....it's pricey but stable and the MANY plys result in some really accurate bevels as you can readily see your progress as you bevel the edges. I will be using 4 mm Okoume planking and following Tom Hill's glued lap method. I have two tracings of the molds....stations 1 - 6 and 7 - 12....and after she's lined off and everything looks good, I'll be pleased to share blue line copies with anyone interested for the cost of printing them plus mailing tube and postage. The drawings are not "crowded"....as a matter of fact, I also reduced them to 1/4 scale and am building a 1/4 scale Piccolo in sequence just ahead of the full size boat.

[Wild Dingo]

Aye young John of Gearing ye be a fine chap even if I do say so meself! such a wealth of photos ye've posted of late.. and now sailing canoes! A gennelmens ye are! :cool: Thank ye!

Bruce you built yours totally from the woodenboat articles didnt you? sure is one sweet canoe that one.

John you may share go forth and multipy my man go forth with that generous offer! :cool:

[doorstop]

Come on Jeff, where's piccies of Felicite`?

[skuthorp]

Hang on, Hang on! http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/beth.htm and http://media5.hypernet.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=002513 The yellow Mack is Felicite. Oh yes, http://www.clcboats.com and last but not least http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/canoe_mirror/canoe_sailing.html

And don't forget to look at Todd Bradshaws site or buy his book from WB, a mine of ideas and Info!

[ 04-09-2003, 06:04 AM: Message edited by: skuthorp ]

[Bruce Taylor]

one sweet canoe that one.Thanks, Shane.

Todd Bradshaw has made some beautiful new sails for her. I'll post pictures of the new rig when I receive them and get everything set up.

Todd's a great guy to do business with, in case anyone was wondering. Fast and fastidious...an artist.

[John Gearing]

John,
I misspoke above...it should be Depoe Bay, and it's in Oregon. Here's a link to a fan's site that has pics from the past few years:
http://www.boat-links.com/DepoeBay/

I don't know which of the many festivals would have the most sailing canoes present. You might want to pick the one closest to where you live and see what's there as a start?

[John Gearing]

Here are a few more to whet the appetite!

A CLC Mill Creek converted to trimaran. Note the lashing to the outriggers. This was a builder modification, but CLC has recently changed their design to include lashing, I'm told.
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/articles/curious/withrig.jpg

Another shot of what looks like an Oughtred boat:
http://www.boat-links.com/PT/PT2000/McGregor.jpg

Here's a "Canadian canoe" (as they're known in the UK :D ) from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Assn site: www.wcha.org (http://www.wcha.org)
http://www.cedarislandcanoes.com/WCHA-Sailing/sailmain.jpg

This one is going to be auctioned in June at the New Hampshire Boat Museum. Looking at the site, they have some interesting boats in that sale: a Grady White, Penn Yan Swift, 1899 English rowing skull, 1890 Indian birch bark canoe, E.M White freight canoe powered by 6 hp Palmer! Check it out at:
www.nhacbm.org/ (http://www.nhacbm.org/) Vintage%20Auction-2002.htm

Here's the sailing canoe...
http://www.nhacbm.org/images/Auction-2002/Sailing%20Canoe.jpg

[Bruce Taylor]

How's it feel to be the Bob Guccione of Boat Porn, John? Keep them coming!

At first glance I thought that trimaran was Brian C's Swiftwood. Interesting little article on its construction, here:
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/articles/curious/

[Bob.S.]

Nope, Kellan Hatch's but also written up in duckworks

A curious boat . . . (http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/articles/curious/)

- Bob

[John Gearing]

http://www.seascout.net/ship361/graphics/logcanoe.jpg

Here's a Piccolo....
http://www.nwboatschool.org/images/piccolo1.gif

Who says your sail has to be complicated...just open the brolly!
http://www.indexo.pionexnet.co.uk/opencanoe/images/sail6.JPG

[brian.cunningham]

Originally posted by Bruce Taylor:
How's it feel to be the Bob Guccione of Boat Porn, John? Keep them coming!

At first glance I thought that trimaran was Brian C's Swiftwood. Interesting little article on its construction, here:
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/articles/curious/SWIFTWOOD is very similar. Especially the plate attachments. I write to Kellan on the kayak-sailing list. He's a lot of help!

[JimConlin]

Words fail me

http://www.placidwatersnorthwest.com/images/square_stern_canoe.jpg

[Bill Dodson]

For some more about the Chesapeake Bay Log Sailing Canoes, check out logcanoes.com (http://www.logcanoes.com/).

(My dad learned to sail in a log canoe, growing up in St. Michaels, MD)

http://www.logcanoes.com/canoes/graphics/sandy%201944%20pic.jpg

[brian.cunningham]

So Jim, is that your latest paint scheme?

You selling boats to the troops now? :D