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Under sail again! Further tuning the sailing rig on AL DEMANY CHIMAN

It took longer than I had hoped to rebuild the lateen yard so that I could get my skin-on-frame outrigger canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN under sail again. Recently,though,I finally completed that task and yesterday morning life and the weather gave me an opening to get “the sail canoe”under sail for the second [...]

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Sailing rig details for the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN

As I work away on refinements to the sailing rig for my skin-on-frame outrigger sailing canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN,I wanted to show off a few more details of the rig as it is. I posted a variant of this view before,but I think this is a better picture. It gives a sense [...]

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Progress on the sailing rig for the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe,AL DEMANY CHIMAN

So much for being more active with Chine bLog this year…but again,my absence often means there is interesting content. I have,indeed,delved into the sailing rig for my skin-on-frame outrigger canoe,AL DEMANY CHIMAN,and have made good progress in recent weeks after stalling for a while. A tour of recent work,[...]

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