RowCruiser - The Ultimate Sailing Canoe 

brilliant design! if there's such a thing as the perfect small craft, this has to be it.

That is one fantabulous boat. Cruising right along there. So cool!

I’m going to build this! Holy cow, this is a great!!! Thanks for providing the kit!

Now that is a pretty cool set up my friend. Good job Colin!

Great little boat.love the ease of use & safety 👏👏

Nice! Thanks Colin and Josh!

I've been wondering how a rower has been doing so well in R2AK. Now I know. That's such a cool boat. It's the best fusion of kayak-canoe-skull-sailboat I've seen. Very nice. And congrats on your continuing success as you head...North to Alaska!

Wow! That's totally awesome!I've been so touched by your built-in shipI want to build the same boat as you!

Awesome stuff Colin, that looks amazing!

Well done for following your dreams and actually arriving at the place you wanted to see.

So excellent! I couldn't believe when you said there are kits :-) hopefully that's still the case

Oh no, now I'll have to build another boat. I really like this concept, it is perfect for me down here in South Australia. Perfect for the Coorong where it gets shallow and I reckon it would be great cruising down the coast as well. I'll have to look into a kit if I can get one here in Oz

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL

Looks SO fun!!

Beautiful designs work. Very well done. All the best with this boat.

Ha ha ! I love it. Seems we have the same idea some what. Short amas . great! I see that you put them up forward to account for the upwind center of force.nice! The steering is beautiful! I have some what of the same cable tipe . only mine is forward cantaleever and two rudders. Some may say too complicated, but I haven't had any problems with mine. Simple is all right too , but it is also nice not to have a long tiller in the way

It looks like a Scandinavian Faering! You made a very handsome boat!

Its really like a VW Westphalia rowboat! Very nice & I really like the look of the rig under sail.

Very nice arrangement, incorporating many issues. I love the shape of the hull and to me it seems like a perfect sine curve, truncated a little at the transom, which enables a good balance considering the rower sits a little behind the centre of the boat. Elegant in many ways. Sometimes I wonder if in heavy seas one could incorporate some water ballast to ease the quick action which tires a person in a quick jolting boat. One of the best compromise boats I have seen and the different aspects are of high standards . Congratulations.

Ha ! a nice mix-up sailing and kayak boat ! bigger one with room for long journey very very good !

I love this boat! Almost as much as the 18' Windrose Ocean Rower! I wonder what became of that boat. I'm planning on recreating it for my first ever boat.

Super Cool design!

I love it. It's my dream boat.

Love this boat. Been studying small boat design for years and this just kills!! Absolutely outstanding

Great boat design.

That is cool,well done.

That looks like a lot of fun.

Great boat. i love it. ❤👍

Beautiful lines, simple clean steering and rigging system, open ocean ability, but best of all the sleeping compartment! At ONLY 180 lbs??!! I've looked at 100's of different designs and I always keep coming back to this one. Now maybe incorporate this design for coastal fishing?

Got into kayaking about 10 years ago previously sail Hobie Cat catamarans most fun I ever had

Plenty of these have been made in Australia out of surf club rowing boats, trimarans and proas. The first one I saw was over thirty years ago which had sailed 600 miles to the destination where I was at on my yacht. It was very sparsely fitted out and the guy lived on it.

A very nice balance slot of thought here.

Definite improvement on the Philippine vinta/banca !

The perfect Race to Alaska boat!

Neat little rig.

Amazing idea..

how well does it point? you didn't mention a centre board.

very nice, well done

very nice, great job

nice boat looking

You did good! Both on the boat design and on the video... Bravo! All that it needs is a way to remove that rudder and easily hook on a trolling motor (they make the controls wireless to be located anywhere on some models), and you will have created the perfect one man tiny ocean cruiser. It won't be long before some brave (or foolish) soul circumnavigates the world in this doggone thing. lol

Wow very nice boat....

uauuuu, impresionante, con eso podrías dar la vuelta al mundo.

Very nice idea

Be great to go coastal fishing , put a flexible solar panel or two on deck with a lithium battery pack and a electric trolling outboard mounted to one of the outrigger arms and Bob's your uncle for when you're feeling lazy and there's no wind . Brilliant . 😊

Really nice. Thanx

I love this thing

Wow! What a neat boat! Thank you, youtube algorithm.

Very smart boat

Great boat. How are the trip in the result in Race to Alaska 2016 in this boat? Hugs from Brazil

A Laser hull alone is 130lbs, it’s a bit more when you add the mast sections, boom and blades.

I need one!

It would be even more amazing if you could drop in a Hobie Mirage Drive to supplement it when sailing, or when you're in narrow passages, or even fishing! Either way beautiful vessel, wish I could own one for myself one day.

Looks great. How do you steer when you are row/sailing? Also, do you use a mirror to avoid other craft and obstacles? I like it. The sail looks like the one I have rigged on my sea kayak. Needs very little attention when tacking ang gibing.

incredible, nice to cross the Atlantic

How big a sea could these boats handle ... I live on the east coast of Australia and really love your design:) I also have a spearfishing channel which I’d love to use your boat in my adventures ☺️

incredible

Brilliant concept, and would scale up well, I expect. Windsurf sails should be a good alternative. No mention of a keel or centerboard. How close to the wind does she sail in various conditions? What sort of leeway?

That looks like loads of fun, did you have a marine or ham radio with you?

That would make for a nice beach cruiser.

Awesome 🤙🏽

Remind me of Guired Soudée, a French sailor who departed from Africa and got to America in a row boat

olá amigo, sou do Brasil, e estou projetando um caiaque tipo canoa, gostei muito dá sua embarcação, poderia me passar as medidas e peso, parabéns e obrigado pela atenção.

Hi Angus firstly love the design. place to sleep very impressed would love you guys to add a electric motor as a option hard wire cables to solo panels and have the panels charge lights for sleeping area and recharge batteries for the electric motor. please send pricing for your kits. like to make and sell them in south Africa.

Sweet! So are you going to R2AK 2016?

Can a kit be sent to the Philippines? It seems almost perfect for a country with 7,000 islands! The native fishing boats are very similar, but they've gone away from sails in favor of outboard motors.

It would be very nice if such a boat would be available already built!

Awesome.

Looks much like the rowing boat used to cross the Atlantic and then row from Scotland to Syria by a Canadian and his wife. Could you be the same couple?

Im in love.

how do you empty the water who come into the cockpit while sailing in chopy seas?

Problem with this design over monohull ,is that there is not advantage. The outriggers needed to compensate for the narrow hull cause a lot of drag. The narrow hull has now less room for camping etc. set up time is a lot longer at a busy boat ramp. It doesn't look fast either. And if you want to put a small motor on, to get you from the boat ramp out to the sailing ground , then it where do you put it conveniently? Transom is the optimal place.

How do you prevent rope slippage on that wheel other than applying tension? The rudder-handle relative positioning will change with each slippage. Question from a guy with no sailing experience. Please indulge me.

Such a cool boat. For sailing, where is the centreboard (or any mechanism) to stop side motion when sailing a reach?

Where did you get the aluminum out riggers?

,Waaao, is very cool boat

I wouldn't mind having one but with a VHF marine transceiver and HF radio mobile transceiver with navigation systems.

Qué simpático un ketch.

Could this be made with kevlar or something to make lighter?

Wish they were sold as a complete boat all ready put together.

Wonderful design! How about that hatchway? That is a big opening you'd want sealed in rough going.

sold... I want one..

please have electric flexy solo panels so they can be attached by epoxy where the red paint is.

How many have you made?

Could this boat be built from Devinicil foam?

You should see the Sea Pearl 21

How close can you sail upwind? I don't see any board or keel for lateral resistance.

I ve GOT a rowing boat, can i get the bars and the floaters?

nice

Did You had sailed to Open sea, Big waves ?

Iam 6'6 and want to know if this one fits to me?????

maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to put a small (roughly 30 lb) outboard on it?

I want one

Who built one? I'm looking at for others to share info

esta hermosa

Nice boat. I have had several sailing catamarans, and have one now, as well as half-a-dozen other sailboats from 8 to 33 feet. I also have canoeing merit badge (I really do). No, that is not a row boat, exclusively. That is a boat that can be sailed, or rowed. It is both a rowboat and a sailboat. So get over it and admit that you are a sailor and a rower and a boater. I'd love to sail/row one someday, as I also have the disability of mind that causes otherwise perfectly normal people to sit around dreaming up the perfect boat for, well, you know, messing about in boats. That boat looks pretty sweet. Russ

That's awesome......just try in a rough Sea's... How about if you try to put a machine....(eg.yamaha500hp or mercury500hp)....

Why having one mast with a sail area You can barely handle when You can have 2 masts with 2 handy sails on it? I'm not a sailing expert, but this solution seems to be simple and effective.

Never achieved before?? Maud Fontenoy crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans on a row kayak...15 years ago!

i want to see a recovery from a knock down or capsize