Wow, thats neat how they nest together. 3 canoes & no truck or trailer needed, thats awesome. The versatility with ores and sails blew my mind also. Thank so much for this channel. God bless
cool, i'm a sailor and do kayak expeditions, the idea of the catamaran is spectacular, the ease of assembly and versatility. Congratulations, I'm a fan.
@@capefalconkayak Many areas of the Mediterranean are probably just fine :). In Germany it’s common to paddle in the Baltic Sea, and here in Finland we do that a lot as well - some do it during the cold seasons too. Canoes just aren’t as popular as kayaks.
The problem is that you just can’t get it light enough. For a skin on frame dinghy to be practical it needs to be able to carry two people and some gear through moderately rough water, it needs to have a 12oz skin and it has to weigh less than 70 pounds and as far as I can tell there’s just no way to do that. Once you hit 70 it’s not practical as an on deck tender and it’s also not practical as a car topper in which case there are a ton of other boats in the 90 pound range that do everything better. Also 70 is kind of the upper limit what you really want is 50 to 60.
I have just built a Burmarsh 13 which is a two man plywood canoe, and it is meant to be 36kg and it is just too heavy to be practical even with a road trailer.
Wow, it has really come together. Now if the seat and oars could exist together. :) so you could fold up the seat till it latches. The rowing rig might have to shift forward a bit so the seat doesnt dig in your back when folded down... a couple inches maybe. Just a thought. Man, they are prety and so functional/flexible in design, love your work!
@@capefalconkayak Brian, I've acquired about a thousand board feet of ash that I'm hoarding for "very special" projects. The trees are dying while standing. When you cut them down, the bark sluffs off while they're being skidded to the trucks that will deliver them to the saw mill. When they arrive at the mill all muddy, the sawmill owners don't want to cut them because of the mud (either too much time/labor to clean the mud off or wear and tear on equipment sawing muddy logs). So, the dead ash trees stand in the forest. If you have access and a storage place, you might want to put a couple of logs aside just to do paddles.
The rowing/sailing setup is quite reminiscent of the West Mersea Duck Punts in the UK. They also use a small sprit rig and are steered with a short trailing oar. Lots of videos available, here is one example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QyA7ED0b8os.html
You've been clear that the boat is not really capable of sailing upwind. That's a combination of the sail shape (as you've said) as well as the lack or leeboard. But your rowing outrigger system strikes me as a potential solution to the latter problem without adding more stuff to the boat. Since your sail is at the bow, the leeboard would need to be quite far abaft to equalize center of effort. I would speculate that it's possible then to use the pair of oars as a rudder on one side (effectively the traditional Norse "steerboard" from which the nautical term gets its name), and a leeboard on the other side. The leeboard oar would only need to be locked down at a calculated depth somehow.
I went down this rabbit hole when I was first designing the system, and I’ve got a whole barrel in the basement filled with different size foils and rudder systems. What I eventually came to is that if you’re going to add foils of any sort or even a rudder it creates substantial drag and you would have to almost double the sail area to get the same amount of speed but as soon as you’re doubling the sail area then you’re gonna have to totally change the sail rig and reinforce the frame to handle the forces involved and pretty soon the whole thing just devolves into a frustrating contraption as opposed to this beautifully simple little sail that you barely notice is there unless you need it. The magic of this little rig is steering it with weight shift only and not even putting a paddle in the water. Just dipping the paddle to steer knocks about 25% of the speed right off the top and it comes back to life as soon as you pull it out. There’s nothing saying you couldn’t make an upwind sailing rig for one of these it’s just a different animal.
