Seconded.
How about building the folding mechanism strong enough to keep the hulls upright on a mooring, then 'reinforcing' them with additional inverted...
Ray, have you looked at how some of the Wharram owners launch their trailerable-sized Tikis? The beams are retained in tubular sockets on the...
An S&G boat should be plenty tough enough, especially of this size built with 6mm ply. Obviously if you paddle full speed into a rock with a...
6mm ply is likely to make quite a heavy canoe. It doesn't have to be marine grade, a canoe is kept dry between trips and is usually lifted out...
No reason at all, in fact its been done already, apart from the folding bit about the trailer. What the photos show is that the difficulty lies...
That range of boats in the first post covers a huge variety. The Tracker is the smallest of the lot, but no cheaper than the Nova which is 3'...
How about using smaller bike wheels, say some BMX sized ones, complete with tyres, as the sides of the paddle wheel. Then make some wooden discs...
Just take the motor out of this design and lengthen the drive chain to a forwar pedal position. You could probably make that out of an inverted,...
This might just be car-toppable, and it keeps it all in NZ. http://www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/plans/fishhook/index.htm John Welsford offers...
Yeah, there's those and I'm sure there are others available as well. He has some designs available for free on Duckworks also.
Check out Gavin Atkins free plans at intheboatshed.net - they are mostly fairly simple flat panel ply boats and the plans are all as PDFs. He...
I don't know enough to comment on the mast diameters, but I'm sure the clunky look of the superstructures is to emulate the style of the old...
Sailing Scow "VESPER" The VESPER (see post 19 above) is now for sale on TradeMe. It turns out that its a 1983 Schooner Sailing Scow designed by...
It seems I went straight past the big boats, I was particularly interested in this boat and took about 30 photos and a dozen or so sketches, and...
I've looked at a lot of traditional proas in various museums, principally the NZ National Maritime Museum. It seems that the long thin canoe...
or alternatively... If you want to be safe in a trailer sailboat out in the gulf, it would be hard to overlook a Tasman 20, an Alan Wright design...
Peter, my reading on the subject are the exact opposite. Double hulled canoes, often arranged with very little gap between the hulls (which were...
I narrowly missed seeing the latter stages of construction, would have been fun watching the roll-over. Occasionally I do some work for a...
Sorry I didn't see this sooner, I went to the last day of an exhibition of North Shore designers yesterday at the Devonport YC. All of the above...
