Rowing Needle

Looking for plans and/or info for a rowing needle.
Inspired by Buckminster Fuller.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.

Welcome to the forums.
I doubt that there are plans, but I'd start here...

The British architect Sir Norman Foster wrote about the rowing needles in a 2018 article in Vanity Fair, noting that Fuller considered the rowing shell to be “his most refined design—the purest expression of doing more with less.”

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US3524422A - Watercraft - Google Patents https://patents.google.com/patent/US3524422A/en

Not all of Bucky's designs were good. This is a pontoon boat with a light structure on top for the rower. Are you looking for easiest to row or maximum stability?

I think it would be interesting to build. From what I've read, it should be light, easy to row & stable.

Interesting. A couple of years ago I did a tandem catamaran for the MR340 canoe race to be powered by pedal driven paddles, the client came from the cycling world and I had done a hull design for a previous 3 man trimaran for the same race. I was of the opinion that a catamaran would always be the second choice to an outrigger style hull because of the extra wetted surface of two hulls.
Once I sat down and ran some Michlet/Godzilla optimizations the catamaran was the better choice in this particular choice of speed profile and displacement. I learned a bit from the experience.