Borabora 1960

Spring

The first day of spring in NZ with the sun heading south over the equator.  My 20 year old Tarawa is lashed up and ready to go again.

Ulua 27 for Sale

27' stretched Ulua for sale in the SF Bay area.  This three year old canoe comes fully decked with spray skirts for rough weather.  Contact Chris Goeltner: goeltner at gmail.com

Micronesian Sailing Society

Building a traditional sailing canoe in Palau.

Fiji Eco Challenge

Rigging 69 shunting Tamanu canoes for the start of the Eco Challenge.

Mike Baker

Mike Baker's 26.5' stretched Ulua ready for action.  Strip planked with Alaskan yellow cedar.

Fiji

 

 Just returned home from a few weeks in Fiji. Got some sailing in with my 10 year old Tamanu and caught some nice fish. We Also visited the factory building 100 Tamanus of which 70 will be used in the Eco Challenge in early September. Watch for it on Amazon Prime with Bear Grylls next year. After that event they will be used to train sailors and eventually be distributed around Fiji's hundreds of islands.

Mix and Match Ulua

Gary Gunder has completed a 24' (8.1M) stretched Ulua double outrigger matched with Va'a Motu amas and rudder, and a Wa'apa rig.

Steering Paddle Versus Paddling Paddle

If you intend to steer your outrigger sailing canoe with a paddle, note that you will have the best success with a much larger paddle.

Birth of a T2

Reklov Schubb launching his T2 out through the roof.  My first project many years ago came out of an upstairs window.

Denis Gallant's Va'a Motu

Jeremy Lloyd's stretched Ulua heading down a Hawaiian coast

Karl Caswell

Karl Caswell in British Columbia, Canada is building a 150% T2.  That works out to about twenty seven feet (8.1M).  It's not just a stretch as several builders have done but 150% in all three dimensions.  It weighs about 100 pounds at this stage.

Paul Klein

 Paul Klein from the Russian Federation made this 3D model of the Ulua.

The model was created with Solidworks.

Scott Pettigrew's Ulua

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