The latest project is a Ulua outrigger
sailing canoe, using the plans
in Gary Dierking's great book "Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes" Building
Outrigger Sailing Canoes
1. July 13, 2008: The amas, roughly
shaped of styrofoam with a plywood
core
2. October 19, 2008: Slow progress. But winter is coming on. The amas are done. Only the canoe, iakos, rig, and sail to go.
3. December 5, 2008: Found some green, mostly clear, 12' douglas fir 4x4s at Home Depot for $8.00
She Who Must Be Obeyed helped me cut them up into strips for the iakos.
4. December 29, 2008: Glued up the first iako.
Planning to make a set for a single outrigger and a set for a double outrigger canoe.
5. May 31, 2009--very slow progress.
The single and double iakos are done and varnished. Getting ready to start the hull.
6. July 12, 2009. Making sawdust, lots of sawdust. Clear cedar is not cheap in Alaska,
and shipping clear cedar is not cheap either. I found some relatively inexpensive cedar
in Home Depot in lengths to 12 feet and scarfed it into boards 20-22 feet in length.
Today I cut strips, using a table saw with a 7 1/4" thin kerf blade, and 16' 2x6's to support
the boards in and out. It went well but took a long time.
Routing the bead and cove
Assembling the frames
10/25/09--finished putting on the strips. Next step--removing 1,000+ staples.
3/7/10--Working a little on weekends, managed to remove the staples, sand the hull, fiberglass the hull, and last night flipped the hull off the molds. We have had a lot of snow this winter, and She Who Must Be Obeyed likes to park her car inside in the winter, which takes up half of the Boat Shop.
Getting ready to fiberglass
After three coats of epoxy
Getting ready to flip the hull
It is starting to look like a boat. Now scraping, sanding and fiberglassing the inside.
Your comments are welcome. Email me at
bpc@gci.net
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