Outrigger Canoe

[Andrew Forrest]

I'm looking for plans or ideas for an outrigger canoe. Which is basically a 2 person sit on top kayak with a removeable outrigger. New fiberglass is $4000 cdn. There has got to be a better and cheaper way or doing it. Strip or stitch construction. Any ideas or input would be great.

[Todd Bradshaw]

I think both Chesapeake Light Craft and Lost in the Woods Boatworks (in Nobel, Ontario) have add-on outriggers available in one form or another. You can adapt them for all kinds of hulls.

[BrianCunningham]

I'm building my own version of CLC SailRig

here's theirs

http://www.clcboats.com/sailrig.php3?cart_id=CREATE

with my own sail plan

http://homepages.go.com/~briancunningham/mykayak.html

If you want a traditional outrigger Wharram has the Melanesia

http://www.wharram.com/Melanesia_images.html

By all means join the Kayak Sailing Mailing list
http://www.shipwrecked.com/kayak-sail/

[This message has been edited by BrianCunningham (edited 11-07-2000).]

[dadadata]

you can see some American ideas of proa-yachts (outrigger canoes) on the Cheap Pages.
http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata and scoll down... also a reproduction of the hull structure of a Gilbertese proa.

Any canoe-like hull about 16 to 20 feet should work well. I put an outrigger on a Coleman canoe (see the Cheap Pages) and while it worked, a simple flat bottomed bateau-pirogue-canoe in ply probably works better.

Jim Michalak has an outrigger canoe/proa design which as far as I know is still in the "prototype stage".

www://www.apci.net/~michalak

[dadadata]

oops... two more notes.

-- Bolger's "Yellowleaf" design would probably be a reasonable hull for a very small outrigger. it's a simple three-plank canoe.

-- I've seen pix of modern Hawaiian outriggers meant for outboard use, but probably paddle-able in a pinch, where the outrigger float (a log of wood in some cases) is held on by lengths of galvanized (or perhaps aluminum in your case) pipe.

-- well, three things.

John Harris at CLC is working on an updated SailRig design, his motive mainly being to simplify the attachment system and the structure of the akas.

[dngoodchild]

I have a booklet on just this subject. It's at:
http://anyboat.com/books/booklets.htm

Regards,

David N. Goodchild