Progeny of Beth and Quick Canoe
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Originally Posted by
Boatmik
I keep wondering about the Quick Canoe as a simple sailing canoe - with or without the drop in outriggers. A bit more sail than Paul Helbert has been playing with. A cheap man's BETH if you like.
MIK
"Progeny of Beth and Quick Canoe"
Hi Mik, I really like that concept:
(1) A boat I can build in a couple of weekends, tie on a trolley and walk to the beach, paddle off down the river with three kids on board, have the wife meet us with the Corolla after she's had lunch with her friends, put the canoe on the roof and the kids in the car and head on home. (This is the quick canoe exactly as is)
(2) Add the foils and sail plan from Beth, (centreboard case/offset centreboard case/crossbeam for a leeboard?), again trolley to the beach and go out on my own and (like Beth) give a competent laser sailor a fright. The under water shape of the quick canoe can't be much different from Beth, maybe just leave the skegg off the front so it tacks more easily, sort out the foil attachments and mast steps.
Add a fitted PVC deck and some custom made PVC buoyancy bags so you can get going again after a knockdown as quickly as the Laser sailors?
(3) Add outriggers (full like your outrigger plans or tiny like Keyhavenpotters Shearwater?), tie it on a trolley, walk to the beach, choose day/reef/sail prudently and sail it to town and back with the kids on board.
I can see some difficulties doing (2) - having the strength/torsional rigidity for hard sailing with a Beth sized rig, while maintaining (1) - a light open canoe for going down the river with the kids, but maybe it can be done.
What do you think?
Ian
Something else I've been thinking:
There's maybe potential in general for some of these completely open boats like the GIS and Quick Canoe to add a removable PVC deck of some sort plus buoyancy bags, get them to where they virtually un-floodable in a knockdown. Wouldn't go out that way all the time, but could be an option.
Making a fitted PVC deck (widish gunwale lip around the outside of the boat, shock cord on the PVC deck edge that fits over it, a few velcro tabs that close around cord loops embedded in the underside of the gunwale so it can't come off) plus a couple of custom made buoyancy bags wouldn't take long or add much weight. (See (Folding Sea Kayak - a set on Flickr), for some pictures of things I’ve been doing with PVC and glue.)