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Update on AL DEMANY CHIMAN –sail plan and leeboard

For those of you that have been following the progress of my skin-on-frame outrigger canoe,AL DEMANY CHIMAN,I thought I’d provide an update. I have gotten a sail-plan more or less in place,working with Todd Bradshaw of “Canoe Rig”fame.

I have added a boom from the original conception. It is now [...]

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“Canoe Rig”–an amazing way to expand the possibilities of what a canoe adventure could be

Canoe Rig:The Essence and the Art:Sailpower for Antique and Traditional Canoes,by Todd Bradshaw,is one of those books that stakes out a new piece of turf in your mind. In this case,that turf is the possibilities of adding spars and canvas to the traditional canoe. Bradshaw presents,in great,[...]

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