going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

[Art Haberland]

I think it was pre-covid at The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival. The last one I attended was in 2019. The rest I missed due to either Covid, family health problems, and last years hurricane.

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[Edward Pearson]

Re: going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

I think that might be an Oughtred McGregor. The coaming and three notches on backrest adjustment etc...



I might build a sailing canoe to use some offcuts up for a free boat. Dad had one of the smaller ones, though it wasn't really stable enough - it would fall over with the rig up. The longer McGregor might be better. There's a longer stretched version that would gain stability and speed from a longer waterline and I think further Jordan boat kits has a wider version kitted as well where they blew up the whole boat from 31 to 34 inches of beam to the longer length: the bustier surgically 'Enhanced McGregor' to help carry sail.

https://jordanboats.co.uk/product/macgregor-canoe/

[johngsandusky]

Re: going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

I've sailed a couple of canoes and kayaks. I try to find a happy compromise between weight and stability. My lightest and least stable is a 15'x28" 40# canoe with a 14' mast. It too will capsize even on the beach without any sail up. A little ballast helps a lot. My current favorite is a 15'x35" 50# canoe that I use with a MacGregor lug main. More stable and capable but still gets ballast. I believe in very simple ballast: a couple of gallon water jugs or a modest bag of wet sand, or a couple of exercise weights.
Keep us posted.

[sp_clark]

Re: going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

I believe in very simple ballast: a couple of gallon water jugs or a modest bag of wet sand, or a couple of exercise weights.

Glad to see this posted! Thanks John!

My 17' Waterlust is tender as all heck when there's just me aboard and I've left the amas off... why I came up with the idea of a ballast 'carrier' of sorts, a removable plywood board fitted to solid mounts in the forward compartment. The board has web straps to secure lead 'bricks' I cast, as few as one or as many as five, depending on how this idea actually works.

Oh and I inlet a 9# 'brick' into the daggerboard too.

All of this remains untested owing to a number of circumstances last year.

So I'm looking forward to the '23 sailing season here in the upper Midwest.

Meanwhile I'm bootstrapping a way to hinge my amas' aka so it's not such a PITA to launch from a ramp/dock with them deployed. Borrowing the concept from Mike Water's W17 trimaran, I'm using his plans as the basis for 'locking' hinges for my aka.

I had plans (dreamed as well as on paper from Iain) to build an extended MacGregor back in the early '90's but never got past making the jigs to laminate the stem & sternposts, sadly. Maybe for the best, given its tender nature. Still, the urge to go sailing in a canoe never quite died out, why CLC's Waterlust struck a nerve when it was brought to fruition as a kit in late 2016.

[johngsandusky]

Re: going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

I haven't tried sailing with any outriggers for the reason you mention: difficulty at the dock.
Keep us posted on your canoe.

[Edward Pearson]

Re: going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

Rex and Kathie Payne built a strip McGregor with outriggers. Made a nice job of it.

[skuthorp]

Re: going through old photos, found this sailing canoe.

Have just sold my Mac. to my sailing club for use as a rowing skiff mostly.