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I recently procured some wonderful, large diameter and long (!) bamboo poles for use as the mast, yard, and boom on a lateen rig. The bamboo was cut green and a friend insists special curing is...

Hmmm,

I suppose I could have missed it, but I walked Sandy Beach regularly when I lived on Douglas Island (1993-99) and I didn't see any umiak there.

Yes it was, but then we both moved away from Juneau and lost touch with each other...

A friend of mine helped a teenager build a Storm Petrel in Juneau, Alaska:

http://boats.backwater.org/StormPetrel/index.html

Can you say a bit more about your plans for the water ballast? As I understand it from the study plans, Sweet Pea as designed did not have any water ballast, but did have a hefty steel board.

Interesting comment! However, I would think a better/closer comparison would be between the Calendar Islands 18 and Francois Vivier's Kernic design:

https://www.vivierboats.com/en/product/kernic/...