Recent content by pyrrxa

Added some of the rigging details and clearance dimensions. It looks doable with a transom sheeting arrangement, with the sheet taken off the boom like on a skiff. At the rear of the current cockpit, there's 3 ft of clearance to the sole, and 2.3 to the deck. My primary concern is that the high...

With the current foils, the CLR is only about a foot behind the CE (~6.4% LWL). This should increase significantly with the higher-aspect rudder, but I may still have to move the mast step forward a touch. That would also alleviate some of the boom clearance issues. All that being said, I feel...

The boat profile comes from the original plans, including the foil designs. I can’t speak to the designer’s intentions, but I’ll be replacing them with foils based on my 5o5 foils that I’ve got and been pleased with. I’m on the southern east coast, so warm water (and sandbars) are about the only...

A rough mockup of the rig, with CE marked. To my eyes it looks as though it will be too far aft, but I still need to calculate the CE of the original rig, and guesstimate the CLR.

After a prolonged search for a boat that ticks my boxes of car-toppable, engaging sailing, and opportunities to waste time fiddling with over-complicated rigging, I've settled on building a 16/30 canoe. General construction documentation was created as a museum project back in 2009 in NY and...