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Saturday, July 2, 2016
The Opelu
The photo above is of a model of the Opelu Hawaiian canoe featured in Tommy Holmes' book The Hawaiian Canoe. The model was built by Tevita Kunato who is now carving a 19 footer from an albezia log in Hawaii. Follow his progress here and here.
Very interesting rocker curve forward. I assume the crew weight is more aft than center?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations; that model is beautifully made!
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