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9th February 2010, 12:14 PM #1
Wa'apa sailing outrigger construction.
I have started construction on a Gary Dierking Wa'apa sailing outrigger.
Wa'apa a three board sailing canoe
I'm starting with the ama. It's essentially a plywood box with pointed ends, and built in two sections that bolt together at the center bulkheads.
Here are the panels cut. I'll be gluing chine timbers and bulkheads tommorrow.
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11th February 2010, 12:53 PM #2
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16th February 2010, 02:10 PM #3
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20th February 2010, 10:23 AM #4
I'm 'pox coating the assembled panels and the the other two before final assembly. One last coat and I'll put 'er together.
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25th February 2010, 04:16 AM #5
I have it all closed up. It was a real fiddly task getting the lower panels bent and fit properly. Building this ama was almost as much work as the entire piragua I built a couple months back. I'll have some more pics up soon. I want to get it all filled and faired and primered so I can stash it up in the rafters and out of the way of the main hull construction. Weight without glass tape on the keel and without paint is 29 lbs. It is 16' 1" / 4.9 meters long and 5 11/16"/145mm on a side.
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26th February 2010, 02:21 PM #6
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27th February 2010, 10:52 AM #7New Member
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Hey Rick,
Great work so far! Ive been reading through Gary's book and contemplating buying plans for the Wa'apa. Are you building from the plans or straight from the book? If you are building from the plans, how much difference is there between them and the information that's in the book?
Many Thanks,
Josh.
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27th February 2010, 05:51 PM #8
Thanks for the compliment. I'm building directly from the book. It's pretty straight forward stuff. I think the most difficult part of the project is this ama...the hull ought to be really simple...no more difficult than the piragua I recently built. Close attention needs to be paid to mating up the bulkheads at the separation joints though.
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7th March 2010, 08:11 AM #9New Member
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Hey Rick..
Thanks for the info... keep posting pics as you go! Cant wait to see the finished result!
All the best...
Josh
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7th March 2010, 11:47 AM #10
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20th March 2010, 05:08 AM #11
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28th March 2010, 12:31 PM #12
Laminated beams
I have laminated the cross beams. 5 lams of pine sandwiched between a lam of red oak top and bottom. The beams are 11 feet long, 2 1/4" thick and 2 3/4" wide. Glued up with 'pox. Here's a look at the first one after I cleaned it up with the belt sander. Looks like perfect glue lines the entire length.
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26th June 2011, 01:59 AM #13
Believe it or not, I'm still alive.
Been shut down building for the last 2 years fighting with the homeowner's association over the use of my garage as a workshop, but things have changed and it looks like I'll be tooling back up
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17th January 2012, 01:32 AM #14New Member
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Clueless in Podunk
I am considering building One of Gary's three board outriggers myself.
I don't really know why though. I live near Athens Ohio. Look at a map. Unless I want to sail the Ohio river it's one hell of a drive to any wet spot that is actually big enough for sailing. I could haul it to lake Erie about 4 hrs north. Remember the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald"? Might be a bit of a tricky spot to learn how to sail. I could take it to Baltimore MD and put it in the Atlantic. The distance would make that pretty impractical though.
What I really hope to use it for is to escape the winter weather in Ohio by sailing from Miami to the Bahammas and then bumming around the islands. This of course will only happen if and when (mostly if) I am ever able to retire.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I have never sailed before. Also I've never built a boat before. I own a jig saw, a drill and few clamps and planes and I have a 12 ft x 30 ft room over the garage.
Gary's three boarder looks like it might be simple enough to do with few tools and almost no skill or experience.
In any case the Wa'pa looks like it might be a simple boat to start with and it can be broken down for transport and storage. So I've bought Gary's book. I'll be interested to hear what advice you and other people on this forum who obviously have more of a clue than I do have.
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21st January 2012, 12:04 PM #15Senior Member
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Hi Bill,, years ago i was skiing and got chatting to an instructor while my mates and i were about to head off to do some cross country skiing. I ask him what he did during the off season, and he told me he cuts timber for a living. But he then told me he was building a Chris Craft speed boat. This guy lived in the mountains miles from the water like yourself. I asked why did you want to do it....His reply said it all...
"I thought they looked beautiful.....and i just wanted too"
Sounds a good enough reason to me..
Steven
PS Gordon's song was a great song.....sad but still a great song.
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