Robert Gillett made some nice passages with this tacking outrigger some 25 years ago in Fiji. Peter Evans created a table of offsets for the hull and has published them on his Tacking Outriggers website.
Plans for this canoe are available at: http://www.tacking-outrigger.com/kir8.html
Plans for this canoe are available at: http://www.tacking-outrigger.com/kir8.html
What a great tale! Having sailed a small boat across part of Lake Superior 46 or so years ago I appreciate what it is like to be out of sight of land when the wind picks up a lot. Than stampks for posting this.
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