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I have written before (with admiration) of Gary Dierking's ULUA, a sailing outrigger canoe. I recently noticed a comment from David over at Never Sea Land, one of Chine bLog's sister blogs in this space. It turns out he is building an ULUA, and is blogging about it. This category is also interspersed with a variety of useful links of outrigger canoes. David, great looking effort, keep up the good work. Consider your RSS fed.

Here's another one I found via Gary Dierking at Outrigger Sailing Canoes: Proafile. Editor Michael Schacht seems to really know the topic and all sorts of useful content, such as a really good glossary and design information. This one is a keeper.

Paul Luginbuhl, who, I believe, is Swiss, posted a nice photo album of his project building Ulua, the outrigger canoe I profiled a little while back.

This would be a good site to keep handy if anyone is building one themselves. The designer, Gary Dierking, has posted some other nice photos of completed ones on his site.

Ulua is a lovely sailing outrigger canoe from New Zealand (a nice fit, given that NZ is the southern tip of the Polynesian Triangle). She has excellent authentic features, especially at the ends. The rig also evokes her heritage, though I am curious about how well it performs. She was designed by Gary Dierking, who will provide plans for her and a few other related designs (some other OCs and some proas). All are wonderful interpretations of some of the greatest adventure craft of all time. Kudos.