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Hi John,

MIK Storer sent me a note and heads up about your planned GIS build. I found some descent WRC at Martin's Native Lumber in Dayton, VA, but had to look through a lot of knotty stuff to...

Looks good. In higher winds you might want to sit down on the bottom of the boat.

"Moving side to side" should probably have said, "healing the boat to one side or the other", as it is that hard chine cutting into the water like the edge of a ski which causes the boat to initiate...

That is Wilson Creek, North Carolina. I got to run it once, years ago, in a plastic canoe. All three of the boats in the video are plastic. These fellows might be okay in wooden boats here, but no, I...

Wow, a right cow! Never heard that one, and I like it.

Try my photostream on Flickr: Flickr: helbert.paul's Photostream
Shouldn't have to join anything to see 'em.

My son, Eli, in nice creek...

Spring is here. Got out sailing a few weeks ago with the small rig. Felt wonderful! I have backed off the complexity of the two masts and returned to the drop-in rig. Screwed it more or less...

It is looking good. What is the area of your sail?

Hi Clinton,

Sorry it took me a while to get back... I couldn't remember my password.

Yes there is a bit more to making the sails than just the straight-line dimensions.. You can force belly...

Ha ha... I resemble that remark.



I am anxious to build a QC dedicated to sailing. Probably with the flaired sides of the original QC (since that is so easily done and gives increased stability...

Yeah, I named her "William Henry Harrison" because she seemed so tippy when I first sat in her. Wm H. Harrison was nicknamed Tippecanoe and he only lived about six weeks as President of US. This boat...

Its the patina from use (and abuse) which seems to attract people to these boats. Mine has blown off a car, at a lake, while getting set to remove it for use, has had a roofrack break loose and had...

Great info. Thanks!

Years ago I ran a trout farm for a fellow who used the word "elegant" in exactly that same way...effectiveness, efficiency, and economy. A best solution for whatever the problem.

I've lost count...

Clinton is wanting a separate post about gluing PVC but I'm wishing these posts were combined. So many threads to follow and I don't get here often enough. I guess we'll muddle through somehow, but...

Jonathan,

Nice to meet you. Congratulations on the first place ribbon for the PDR.

So many boats, so little time.

Paul

Here is video of testing the narrow QC as a 59 sq ft yawl.

YouTube - Canoe Yawl Mt Storm 9Oct10 Wx helm001

Admittedly I don't yet know what I'm doing with the second sail. The helm is...

Ouch, a rebuilt ankle. Talk about a highly stressed system!
Hope you are whole again soon.

Last weekend I went to St Michaels, MD for the Mid Atlantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesapeake Maritime Museum. There were over two hundred small boats there and I got to see the first sailing...

Didn't need to await the morning. The center of the partner is 18.5 inches in front of the center of the boat. Moonlight was not bright enough to see the millimeters.

I'd need daylight and an...

MIK,

Sorry for the delay. I missed seeing this. Will measure in the morning and report back.

Cheers,

Paul

Knock-down & recovery:

Yesterdays' forecast was 20 mph and gusty, so I figured it might be ideal for checking out what I had been thinking for knock-down recovery in my 15.5 x 22” (beam measured...

Mezix asked about where to place the mast in a QC. I went by the Drop-in Sail Rig plans (but had to interpolate from the drawings in the plan because the universal nature made that necessary) and...

Maybe this one will work: http://flic.kr/p/8yFnwk

Looks like that didn't work Maybe this way:
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Great discussion. Yep, MIK nailed it. I have been becoming one with this boat in ways which have surprised me. At first it seemed very tender. Now it does not (but I know that is really is). I have...

I'll look forward to seeing it tweaked, especially the spars. The real reason it ended up this size is that I had an old sail to cut which limited me. In order to get it peaked up a bit I set it with...

Dimensions for my new larger lugs'l for canoe William Henry Harrison. Sorry about mixing metric and ancient measuring systems, but I am comfortable with either and don't generally convert.


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Sort of Off Topic Alert!

I just looked the Slavic "son of" endings. Then my wife informed me that it is "Fitz", not "Fritz" and that Fitz is often the bastard son. So the bastard son of QC and...

I've been thinking for some time that perhaps MIK would be interested in starting from scratch at a quick, light, purpose built sailing canoe instead of pushing this one beyond the ridiculous. Sort...

Lots of good ideas. Air bags are not cheap. I already had them from whitewater
use. Built-in buoyancy, although maybe a bit heavier avoids some of
the problems of the bags: how to attach them,...

YouTube - P8280081.AVI

Hi Clinton,

It would be especially helpful in keeping the comparisons of apples to apples and oranges to oranges if you were to also be using MIK's Drop-In Rig. With my narrow version of the...

The reason the quick canoe tacked slowly was that it had no rudder. All directional control was by weight shift, sail trim and adjustment of the leeboard. So in order to prevent a stall in light air,...

Whew, Just read all 221 posts in this thread. Sorry you had a miscut sail but look at all the information we gained from it! Almost all of it is applicable to any boat rigged with a balance lug.
...

MIK, Do you think the yard is too bendy?

I've posted a video, and will probably get another one or two up on Flickr this weekend of sailing at Tygart Lake, WV: Tygart 007 spar bend | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

It looks to me as if the yard...

Thanks, MIK, for sending me the link to this thread.

My first canoe sail was MIK's "drop-in" 21 sq ft (2 sq m) and it is really quite small and a great trainer. I recommend starting with it.
...

MIK's drop-in canoe sailing rig Duckworks Boatbuilders Supply will work very nicely with the Quick Canoe. I first used it on a general purpose Canadian canoe, and for the past several months on a...

Not a lot of inertia to carry through the eye of the wind so I often use the paddle assist for insurance when not much wind. Maybe was slowing the boat by throwing the leeboard and my weight too far...

Howdy all and MIK,

A year or so ago, I built MIK's Drop-in Sail Rig. The plans did not figure on me making my own sail but MIK and I discussed the amount of curvature for a polytarp sail scaled...

--Edith, my knitting daughter.

So, what do British, and their Commonwealth descendants call the wool shorn from sheep?

I read that using thin wool yarn is the way to go. Now I am wondering if "wool" means wool or are they using the term generically. Would synthetic "wools" be better or worse than real wool for...

Aye, even a sketch, please. I'm not clear on that. What I have now is a becket block hung on the boom with a double cow hitch. The downhaul line starts on that becket, goes to the block on the deck,...

Brian and others,

I am nowhere using quite such a large sail (MIK's 89 sq ft lug on my OZ II PDR and a similar 39 sq ft lug on a narrow 15.5 ft canoe). Duckworks does not seem to have any double...

I found a couple of articles which others might want to study:

Telltails and Sail Trimming
On the Wire - Feature

Thanks!

I added a few photos of the new sail and measurements of the bend in boom and yard: Flickr: helbert.paul's Photostream

The smaller old sail never did luff because it was so stiff from all that...

Fifty-eight pieces to sew up into a sail.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4793410989_5ebf7075f8.jpg

Lots of pieces for the new sail. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Hi MIK,

I have the floor of our living room covered up with all the parts for a new sail for my narrow Quick Canoe. It is almost twice the size of the previous sail, from your Drop-in Sailing...

Here are a couple of video clips and a photo of the Quick Canoe (solo-prototype) sailing with MIK's Drop-In Sailing Rig. Wind was Force 3 to 4 (mostly 3).

Sailing at Lake Moomaw - a set on Flickr...

Here is a set of photos showing some details of rigging a modified version of Michael's Quick Canoe 155-solo prototype, for sail. The modification is that the skegs, which work well for the QC 155,...