CANOE SAILING
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based on Canoes Sailing Resources 2000 and Canoe Sailing
Resources 2003. Time for more updates.
Join an excellent discussion group with people from
around the globe:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sailing_canoes/
Originally prepared by Dan
Miller and Craig
O'Donnell. Later revisions by Craig O'Donnell. Please
email Craig with any comments or corrections.
John Kohnen maintains a list of maritime
links which contains much canoe-related
web-o-terie.
 This
is the Link Death Spiral. The link has aged out, but if
possible I'll replace it.
When a book or article is listed in
boldface it means it's on the web in
whole or in part.
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INDEX & LINKS
 Left:
How the Hawaiians sailed, from Tommy Holmes' The
Hawaiian Canoe.
The Hawaiians quickly adopted western rigs. By the
early 20th century paddling outriggers were often
equipped with sail and raced. Usually they sailed
stern-first (I kid you not).
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General References
- Canoes
and Canoeing: Paddling, Sailing,
Cruising and Racing Canoes, and Their Uses, with Hints
on Rig and Management, Etc.
- By C. Bowyer Vaux. Spaldings Athletic Library:
American Sports Publishing Co. NY; 1894. E-book!
at www.dragonflycanoe.com
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Canoe
Cruising and Camping
- By Perry D. Frazer. Forest and Stream Publishing,
1897. A fun book, with excellent photo plates of open
and decked canoes. E-book!
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Designs for Boatbuilding: Access to Plans for
Wood Construction
- By Iain Oughtred. Barnacle Marine Ltd, Colchester,
Essex, England, 1990. Shows John Bull's Little Pete
(13' x 28") with lateen sail, and gives information
about other John Bull designs and a source for a
Nethercott International 10sq meter design.
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A Dinghy Rig article
- By Percy Blandford, from 1954. Blandford is a
clear, concise and prolific writer who, as far as I
last heard, is still alive. He wrote a large number of
practical books and articles on sailing, paddling,
etc., etc. This
article talks about rigging the generic yacht
dinghy to sail with a balanced lug and leeboards. The
dimensions for spars and rig are given and clear
drawings help show all the parts. It all can be
adapted to a canoe quite easily.
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More Building Classic Small Craft
- By John Gardner has an excellent historical
overview in a chapter entitled "Four Canoes".
Describes a sail rig for an open canoe, and two decked
sailing canoes.
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Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft
- By Maynard Bray. Photos and specifications.
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Sailing Canoes: A Brief History together with an
outline of types, classes, designs, specifications and
rules
- Reprint of a ca. 1930 ACA publication available
from Chicagoland Canoe Base. While the ACA rules are
well outdated, there is plenty of information on both
decked and open sailing canoes, including various sail
configurations and information on building rigs for
canoe sailing.
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- Sail Your Canoe: How to Add Sails to
Your Canoe
- By John Bull. Cordee, 1989. John Bull,
Holme Lea, Angerton, Kirkbride, Carlisle,
Cumbria, GB-CA5 5HX, UK. John also publishes
an on-line
open canoe sailing newsletter.
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Sailmaker's Apprentice
- By E. Marino. Excellent text for those
wishing to make their own sails.
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Open Canoe Sailing
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Sail Any Canoe!
Sam Manning has graciously let me put his
drawings from a 1978 WoodenBoat article, Sticks
& String, online here. If you've ever
puzzled over how to add a simple, low-tech
knockdown rig to any canoe, here's
how. It can be used with almost any small
sail.
Sam tells me in his recent letter that he still
uses this canoe and rig, and more than his other
boats. This is absolutely the definitive cheap and
elegant canoe-sailing article as far as I'm
concerned, and I wish I knew of it when I started
fiddling with my Coleman canoe a few years
back.
Or, add a square
sail based on Rushton's downwind rig of the
early 1900s.
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A
Pluvial Cruise
- By Clarence Wilson Stryker. In 1923, a group in
two canoes goes camping along the Severn River in
Annapolis.
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Building the Maine Guide Canoe
- By Jerry Stelmok. Contains dimensioned drawings
for a 60 square foot rig, including sail, spars, mast
partner and step, and leeboard.
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Canoe Cruising
- By Frank Furness. Rudder, Feb. 1952.
Sailing and camping on Long Island Sound in a 17-ft
aluminum canoe.
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Canoe for Sail
- By Jo Currie. Cottage Life Sept/Oct 1995;
38-44. With lots of great information provided by John
Summers, Curator of the Marine Museum of Upper Canada
and avid canoe sailor.
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Canoe
Sailing, from The Boy's Book of
Canoeing
- By Elon Jessup. This is one of those legendary,
funky old youth books from the early 20th century. One
short chapter; not actually very helpful; it's
here because it's here. I went to the trouble
of finding it and by gum, I was gonna scan it!
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Canoeing
- By the American National Red Cross. Doubleday and
Co., 1977. Surprisingly good reference for open canoe
sailing, including dimensioned drawings for leeboards
and rudders. There have been many editions of this
book and it's easy to find.
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- Sailing Canoe Rigging
- By Jack Hazzard. A How-To Book of Building Basic
and Advanced Sailing Canoe Rigging Equipment.
Fairfield, PA: Brown's Canoe Works, 1991. Detailed
work by a long-time sailor of open canoes, mainly
related to adapting wood/canvas canoes. (Has anyone
had luck getting this book?) Brown's Canoe Works, 2235
Mount Hope Road, Fairfield, PA 17320 USA.
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- The Strippers Guide to
Canoe-building
- By David Hazen. Tamal Vista Publications, 1976.
Hazen admits to having never sailed a canoe, but
provides drawings for a sail rig, leeboards, and
rudder.
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- Web Articles:
- You
Too Can Sail a Canoe. By Marilyn Vogel (May
2000).
- Building
a Rig. By Larry Zuk & Bob Halsey. Essay;
downloadable Acrobat file.
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Decked Sailing Canoes
Beth
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- Alone
in the Caribbean
- By Frederic A. Fenger. Yakaboo sails north
from Grenada. Yakaboo was rudderless; balance
was achieved by shifting the centerboard fore and aft,
and adjusting the rig. Yakaboo was recently
reproduced by Joe Youcha; the story is found in
WoodenBoat #119. More about Frits
and Yakaboo. Available as an e-book.
Mystic's Blunt Library holds the original logs of
Fenger's cruise along with some miscellanea.
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Boats and Boating in the
Adirondacks
- By Hallie Bond. Adirondack Museum and Syracuse
University Press, Blue Mountain Lake, NY. 1996. An
excellent introduction to wooden boats, particularly
those used in the Adirondack region of New York State.
Some emphasis on Adirondack boatbuilder J. Henry
Rushton. Contains a catalog of the Adirondack Museum's
collection of small craft, which includes several
sailing canoes. Contains sail plan for Rushton's
decked sailing canoe Nomad (which is based on
the open Ugo model).
New! Click here for drawings and photos of the sailing
canoe on display at the Museum itself.
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The
Canoe Aurora; a Cruise from the
Adirondacks to the Gulf
- By Dr. Chas. A. Neidé. New York, Forest and
Stream Publishing Co., 1885. A cruise in a Rushton
Princess decked sailing cruising canoe. E-book!
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- Canoe
and Boatbuilding for
Amateurs
- By W.P. Stephens. Forest and Stream
Publishing, NY. 1st ed., 1885; 9th edition,
1903. Single best reference for those
interested in decked sailing canoes. The bad
news is it's long out of print. The good news
is Mystic Seaport Museum has reprinted the
"unobtainium" plates that originally
accompanied the book. And now it is available
online
at Dan Miller's Dragonfly Canoe Works web
site.
New! From the US Naval Academy Library
I've obtained decent xerox copies of the
original plates, and will put them in their
own directory, here.
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The Canoe and the Flying Proa; or,
Cheap Cruising and Safe Sailing
- By Wm. L. Alden. Harper Bros., NY, 1878.
Interesting, but not much information for builders. A
reprint of several articles from Harper's Magazine.
Craig has a xerox of this book, if you're desperate.
The Flying Proa part is here.
The Canoe part is here.
The title page from the original 25-cent mini-book is
here.
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Canoe
Handling.
The canoe, history, uses, limitations and
varieties,
practical management and care and relative facts
- By C. Bowyer Vaux. Forest and Stream Publishing,
1885/1888/1901. Both Dan and I have converted Canoe
Handling to an e-book. Dan's is found here.
Mine is found by clicking on the title, above. A few
bits from Vaux, concerning reefing, appear on the
Cheap Pages here.
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Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise
on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on Building and
Fitting Canoes
- By Warington Baden-Powell. London: Smith, Elder,
1871. Not as exciting as the title makes it appear,
but worth the read if you can find it. Valuable
because it's very early on in the era of
canoe-cruising mania and ol' B-P liked to document his
designs.
New! An e-book is in preparation.
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Canoeing,
Sailing and Motor Boating: Practical
Boat Building and Handling
 By
Warren H. Miller. George Doran, 1917/1919, and later
editions.
Collected from old magazine articles, the first half
of the book concerns canoes. Includes instructions for
building a canvas-covered sailing canoe. Good sail
plans and rigging instructions. E-book
here.
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2004 ... Dan Miller- ... has done some horse-trading and wound up
with a sailing canoe which he thinks is a Rushton.
See his excellent series of "before" pix here.
yes, he plans to restore it.
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Hugh
Horton has written up his experiments
with an up-to-date and relatively high-tech cruising
sailing canoe. Hugh says:
- "My goal has been to update the old idea of a
decked, solo sailing canoe for cruising, one in
which the boat is very capable under sail or
paddle. We're not trying to scrimp, rather we want
to design & build the best we can, using up to
date materials & current thinking." Hugh's
write-ups can be found in Sailing Jun 2000
& Aug 2001, Sail Feb 2002, Water
Craft Sept/Oct 2002. Read about Puffin
and Serendipity:
- Discovering
the Cruising Sailing Canoe
Modern
Decked Sailing Canoes
Hugh
Horton Chooses a Rig (June 2000)
Hugh
Talks About Sailing Canoes (March 2000)
Hugh's
older sailing canoe was written up in Messing About
in Boats:
- Osprey,
a Double-Paddle Sailing Canoe
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- Manual of Yacht and Boat
Sailing
- By Dixon Kemp. Wonderful stuff, primarily
concentrating on the Nautilus and Pearl canoes of
Baden-Powell and Tredwen. Contains much information on
rigging and fittings. The 1911 edition was reprinted
with commentary by John Leather by International
Marine. Some bits available here.
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- Craig has a xerox of the first edition (1878)
which is light on canoes and canoe yawls. The 11th
edition, 1913, is also light on canoes and canoe
yawls.
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- 2004 ... having located a 6th edition of
Kemp, it's now possible to begin scanning and placing
the canoe and canoe-yawl items online.
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Practical
Canoeing
- By Tiphys (1883). "Tiphys" is the author (a.k.a.
Charles Penrose), or rather his boat. A very good and
very thin illustrated manual to canoe sailing ; his
rigging diagrams are just about the best. Many sailing
canoe enthusiasts consider this the best of its genre.
E-book.
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Racing, Cruising and Design
- By Uffa Fox. Peter Davies Ltd, London 1937.
Building and racing the international canoe Flying
Fish.
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Rushton and His Times in American
Canoeing
- By Atwood Manley. The Adirondack Museum and
Syracuse University Press, 1968. A biography of famous
canoe and boat builder J. Henry Rushton, of Canton,
NY. Rushton was one of the founders of the ACA, which
had its roots in decked canoe sailing. This book
includes good information on decked sailing canoes,
with photos and plans (albeit flawed) for several of
Rushton's sailing canoes.
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Sail and Power
- By Uffa Fox. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1937.
Building and cruising in the 20'x4' Brynhild,
and building and racing the international canoes
Wake and Nymph II.
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Sailing Craft
- By Edwin J. Schoettle. Has a chapter with a
partial history of decked sailing canoes in North
America by Maurice Wilts. Several small scale lines
drawings of decked canoes, including Friede's
Mermaid.
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Sailing, Seamanship, and Yacht
Construction
- By Uffa Fox. Peter Davies Ltd, London, 1934.
Chapter on "Winning the Canoe Championship of America"
with plans for East Anglian and Valiant,
along with construction details. Details their sneaky
circumvention of the American 2-mast rule.
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Skinney, a 17-foot Sailing Canoe
- By C.A. Nedwidek. MoToR BoatinG Ideal Series,
Volume 15 - Thirty Easy to Build Sail Boats with
Auxiliary Power edited by Charles F. Chapman and
F.W. Horenburger. MoToR BoatinG, New York, 1939; pages
31-32 + blueprints. Tall jibheader sail plan. Looks
fast. Build her and add a more reasonable rig.
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"A Strange Reincarnation," WoodenBoat #97
 By
David Hardy. Guy builds a tiny (about 13') Alfred
Strange canoe yawl. Canoe. Canoe yawl. Canoe. Well,
whatever. It's a really nice little boat.-
The Albert Strange Association
- Dedicated to researching, preserving, building and
sailing Albert Strange yachts. Strange got his start
among the canoe-yawl buffs and was great pals with
George Holmes, father of
canoe yawls.
See http://www.albertstrange.org.uk/
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Thoughts on Yachts and Yachting
- By Uffa Fox. Peter Davies Limited, London 1938.
"Craft I have Owned and Sailed" includes a 16'x33"
cruiser. Also building and racing the International
canoe Defiant, and more details about
Wake and Nymph II (see listing for Sail and
Power).
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A
Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on
Rivers and Lakes of Europe
- By John MacGregor. Sampson Low Marston &
Company Limited, London 1866. The book that started it
all. See also this e-book
version.
There were ongoing Rob Roy books. One describes a
cruise in a canoe yawl, The
Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob
Roy. A condensation
of The
Rob Roy in the Baltic appeared in
Harper's Magazine, 1867. The Rob Roy titles seem to be
exceptionally hard to get ahold of. MacGregor
apparently wrote up a trip to Holland for a magazine -
"Blackwell's" maybe? Has anyone seen this?
Yale University holds some of MacGregor's logbooks. A
profile of John MacGregor appears in WoodenBoat #168
Sept/Oct 2002.
2004... I've gotten ahold of both Baltic
and Rob Roy on the Jordan and will begin
scanning them at some point. Jordan is a little
tedious, actually.
Traditions and Memories of American
Yachting
- By W.P. Stephens. WoodenBoat reprint 1989. Massive
collection of articles that first appeared in Motor
Boating magazine. Includes a section on the
development of sailing rigs which includes excellent
information about decked canoes, and a section on
Small Cruisers, with more of an emphasis on larger
canoe yawls. Stephens liked canoe yawls.
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Uffa Fox's Second Book
- By Uffa Fox. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1935.
Building and racing the International canoe
Gallant.
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Yachts, Boats and Canoes, with special chapters
on model yachts and single-handed sailing
- By C. Stansfeld-Hicks. London: Sampson Low,
Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Numerous
illustrations and diagrams and working drawings of
model yacht and various small craft suitable for
amateurs.
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Voyage
of the Paper Canoe
- By Nathaniel Bishop (out of print, reprinted in
Messing About In Boats in the 1980s. Bishop takes a
Nautilus-type sailing canoe, mostly under oars, from
Albany New York to western Florida. From about 1875.
See the e-book
at Eldritch Press. Four Months in a Sneak Box
is also online at the same place, and
canoe-cruise-like in concept.
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Kayak Sailing
CLC
SailRig
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- Baidarka
- By George Dyson. Sailing kayaks based on Aleut
craft; aluminum and Dacron, lashed. Includes offsets
and plans. Dyson built a number of baidarkas, most
with sails, some with outriggers. A wonderful and
inspiring book.
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Building a Sail Rig for Kayaks and
Canoes
- By Chris Kulczycki. WoodenBoat No. 131 -
July/August 1996. Building instructions for amas, akas
and a leeboard, designed primarily for kayaks, but
possibly adaptable to canoes etc. Recommended sail is
a fully battened Balogh. See Chesapeake
Light Craft for plans for CLC's
second-generation SailRig.
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Canoes and Canoeing
- By Percy Blandford. W.W. Norton and Co., NY, 1968.
In the British tradition, canoe refers to kayak; in
this case the kayaks are canvas over ribband
construction. Percy offers several suggestions for
sail rigs that would be adaptable to many kayaks or
canoes.
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The Complete Folding Kayaker
- By Ralph Diaz. McGraw-Hill, 1994. Details how to
sail folding kayaks using various rigs -- jib
gaff-rigged Folbot rig, Balogh, and downwind
twins.
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Farthest
North
- By Fridtjof Nansen. Harper & Bros., NY 1897.
Trekking from 85 degrees north latitude back to
civilization, two bamboo-framed kayaks were paddled or
lashed together into a catamaran and sailed. Good
parts online here.
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Esoterica for the Truly Obsessed
This section contains the references that are
very obscure and hard to find, or that contain
information useful to those really into canoe
sailing. If you just want to set up a rig and go sailing,
don't waste your time with these...
- Boats: A Manual For Their
Documentation
- By Paul Lipke, Peter Spectre, and Benjamin A.G.
Fuller (editors). American Association for State and
Local History, 1993. An impressive volume on recording
small boats. Includes several examples of sailing
canoes, particularly with respect to construction and
rig.
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Camping out with the British Canoe Association :
with chapters on camping canoeing and amateur
photography
- By John Davey Hayward. London : George Philip
& Son, [1889?]
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Canoemates
- By Kirk Munroe. Harper Brothers, 1892. Juvenile
fiction. Two boys go on a cruise through the
Everglades and Florida Keys. Injuns and adventure, but
you can tell Kirk Munroe knew and loved small boats,
sailing canoes, and South Florida. A good read.
Fiction indeed, but the illustrations are nice, and
since Munroe lived in South Florida the descriptions
of both boats and scenery are authentic. Clearly he
loved boating. After all, he owned the Presto-sharpie
Allapatta. E-book!
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Canoes of Oceania
- By A.C. Haddon and James Hornell. Bishop Museum
Press, Honolulu. 3 Volumes reprinted as one, 1975.
Stone-age technology in the 1700, 1800 and 1900s.
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The Common Sense of Yacht Design: The Theory and
Practise of Naval Architecture
- L. Francis Herreshoff. Reprint 1974,
Caravan-Maritime Books, Jamaica, NY.
Includes "Fig. 366 - Showing the great lever arm the
sliding seat gives to her ballast" which shows the
distance between the center of ballast and the center
of buoyancy for a sliding seat canoe, sandbagger,
LFH's fanciful "sailing machine" and a 6-meter. Also
discussion of sliding seats, Yakaboo and ACA on
pp. 145-147. (Thanks to Jon Etheredge).
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The Cruise of the Canoe Club
- By W.L. Alden. Harper Brothers 1883, 1911.
Juvenile fiction. Four boys go on a cruise with a Rob
Roy, a Shadow, a Rice Lake, and a ribband-canvas
canoe, with sundry sailing rigs. They survive many
mishaps that would do in most boys of today.
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Cruises in small yachts and big
canoes;
or, Notes from the "Watersnake," in
Holland and on the south coast,
the logs of the "Water Rat" and "Viper,"
on the Thames and south coast,
with remarks on anchorages for small
craft
- By Harry Fiennes Speed. London, Norie &
Wilson, 1883. E-book coming.
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- Evolution of
Canoeing
- By Frederic G. Mather, 1885. From the pages of
Outing magazine, a review of 13 or so popular
designs for paddling and sailing. Line art.
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How to Build Canoes
- By Ed Smith, ed. Diamond Point, NY: Smith Book
Press, 1989. Smith Book Press, RR1, Box 217D, Diamond
Point, NY, 12824, U.S.A. Reprint of older
Popular-Mechanics-style DIY articles about open canoe
sail rigs. (I have not had luck getting this book from
a library, let us know if you do...)
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- An Inland Voyage
- Robert Louis Stevenson: 1877. RLS and a friend
travel canals and rivers in Belgium and France. Travel
writing rather than canoe writing, but enjoyable.
E-book
at Eldritch Press.
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Practical boat building for amateurs: containing
full instructions for designing and building punts,
skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, etc. Illustrated with
working diagrams
- By Adrian Neison, C.E. London, L.U. Gill,1878. It
would be rather difficult to build a canoe from this
book as there are no lines or offsets, just overall
dimensions and profile drawings. There is a drawing of
a small balance lug sail.
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The Scientific
American Supplement (1876): How to
Build Cheap Boats
- By Paddlefast. A multipart article which starts
with a scow and doesn't look back. The "simplified
construction" of the canoe [below] seems
rather strange, but there it is. I have a xerox of
this article. Too complicated to put on the web.
Look here for the
mold patterns and a set of rig notes that grew much
longer than I intended, heck, it's a
tutorial.
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- Question: who was "Paddlefast"? Someone has
suggested W.P. Stephens, but I'm not so sure.
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- The Sliding Gunter: A Versatile and Efficient
Traditional Rig
- By David Nichols. Boatbuilder March/April
1995, pp. 22ff. Gunter from A to Z with helpful photos
and diagrams; mentions the batwing in passing. Read it
and rig.
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Spritsail & Lugsail
- By John Leather. "The Rigs" section comprises
chapters 1 and 2. This is excellent and detailed
information on the different kinds of lugsails and
spritsails, all of which have surely been applied to
sailing canoes. However, in the chapters following
there is nothing specific about sailing canoes;
Leather is writing about workboats. The Figures are
usually detailed enough to give you all the clues to
construct a sailing rig's mast, spars and sail. Out of
print but wonderful.
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Sailing Canoe Plans for
Motivated Canoe Sailors
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Plans or kits are available and it's not that
hard to build a sailing canoe. All plans are assumed to
provide complete building instructions unless otherwise
noted.
Adirondack
Museum
- Princess
- by J. Henry Rushton. "Decorative plans" - these
are the same as published in Atwood Manley's
Rushton and His Times in American Canoeing. For
building purposes, these plans leave a lot to be
desired in terms of completeness and accuracy.
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- Nomad
- by J. Henry Rushton. "Decorative Plans" - like the
Princess drawings, these are found in Manley's
book, and are also poor quality.
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- Ugo
- by J. Henry Rushton.
- While Ugo was an open model paddling canoe, the
same hull when decked over becomes the Nomad.
These drawings, by Dave Dillion, are excellent.
While the sail plan has been reconstructed and
published in Hallie Bond's Boats and Boating in
the Adirondacks, the deck beams and deck
arrangement would still have to be worked out.
Perhaps a visit to the Adirondack Museum to see
Nomad on display would be in order...
Mystic Seaport Museum
- 14' Sailing Canoe
- by Wiser. Really neat construction drawings! Study
plans in an old WoodenBoat, too.
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- Kestrel
- In the British style with deck flaps; probably
designed by W.P. Stephens. Sail plan only.
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- Argonaut
- A Rushton Vesper model. Sail plan only.
Mystic also has the W.P. Stephens Collection, which
includes material from the Humber Canoe Club and from
Stephens' long friendship with Albert Strange.
Don't bother to go to Mystic to see their canoes
unless you call way in advance: the small craft are away
in a warehouse.
Capt. Pete Culler
17' two-masted sailing canoe.
Traditional lapstrake. Narrow, round bottomed
tandem. Looks fast and tender.
13' sailing canoe Butternut
Traditional lapstrake. Very small.
See Pete Culler's Boats: The Complete Design
Catalog, by John Burke (International Marine 1984;
out of print).
2005 update on plans: Patricia Kelley-Staab emails
that "George Kelley was my dad and he passed away in
1999. I believe Pete Culler's plans are available from
Mystic Seaport."
Duck Trap
Woodworking
Offers plans for traditional lapstrake canoes
in three lengths modeled after Culler's
Butternut. Also offers plans for sail rigs for
these canoes, and the book Building Lapstrake
Canoes.
Uffa Fox
17' Wake
Wake is described in Uffa Fox's books
Sail and Power and Thoughts on Yachts and
Yachting. Cost £ 35.00
20' Brynhild
Brynhild is a tandem sailing canoe
described in Uffa's book Sail and Power.
Cost £ 40.00
Uffa Fox Ltd., Thetis Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight,
England
Island Canoe Company
3556 West Blakely Avenue NE, Bainbridge
Island, WA 98110. Said to have plans for several
canoes, including Robert Gibson's Vesper and
Frederick Fenger's rudderless Yakaboo, as well
as open canoes which can be modified for sailing. They
have modified the lines for both Yakaboo and Vesper to
suit modern tastes. Can anyone confirm this source of
plans?
Selway
Fisher Designs
15' Canoe Yawl Beaver.
Stitch-and-glue, it seems. Other designs too.
15 King St, Melksham, Wiltshire England SN12 6HB.
See also Tyrone
Boats.
Tremolo, Ephemera and others
from Emubo
Plans for ultra-simple sharpie sailing
canoes. Very much in the Michalak and Bolger
philosophical camp. Modern sailing canoes, and cheap
to build.
Tremolo:
See also:
Solo
Dancer  Ephemera
George Holmes
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
20' Canoe Yawl Eel. Oddly enough,
George Holmes' drawings went to W.P. Stephens, and C.
Lowndes Johnson, a well-known Chesapeake designer,
borrowed them for tracing. There are 3 or4 sheets with
lines and a sail plan and deck rigging plan. Complete
enough for a serious builder to build from.
Classic Boat
13' x 4' Canoe Yawl Ethel.
Lapstrake.
Ten part article in Classic Boat (UK)
that ran from January 1991 to November 1991 (Issues
#34-41).
Boating House Publications, Link House, Dingwell
Ave, Croydon, Surrey, England CR9 2TA.
Two articles in the series are especially worth
finding and xeroxing:
- Building a Victorian Canoe Yawl, Part 9: A
Different Rig for Ethel.
- Classic Boat, September 1991, pp. 51-55.
This article gives all dimensions for an 80 sqft
lug mainsail and 16 sqft lug mizzen, hollow pine
mainmast and mizzen mast, and bamboo yards and
booms. Ethel is a canoe yawl but the sail area will
work for longer sailing canoes.
- Canoe? Perhaps. Yawl? Hardly. by John
Leather
- Classic Boat, October 1991, pp. 43-48.
A typically thorough Leather article on the
history of the canoe yawl from its origins on the
River Humber to date.
Solway Dory
Offers 5 sailing canoe plans ranging from 11'
to 16'. Stitch-and-glue.
Angerton, Kirkbride, Carlisle, UK CA5 5HX
Smallest Solway Dory canoe:
Chesapeake Light
Craft
Mill
Creek 13 (shown) or 16 double-paddle
canoes with balanced lugsail.
Sassafras
open canoes can be adapted to sail but they are very
light. This is the Sassafras 16. Sassafras 12
is more or less equivalent to the Culler Butternut
(above). The 16 might be decked, and with a leeboard,
make a nice cruising canoe.
Plans or stitch-and-glue kits. CLC also sells the
sails, which can be used on anyone's canoe.
1805 George Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA
Telephone: 410-267-0137
Michael
Storer Designs
17' two-masted sailing canoe Beth.
Stitch-and-glue from plywood. Phil Bolger
sharpie style: flat, rockered bottom and plumb sides.
Very fast.
WoodenBoat
Magazine/WoodenBoat Store
12' Wee Rob
13'-7" or 15'-8" MacGregor
Glued plywood lapstrake by Iain Oughtred.
12'-8" Piccolo
Lapstrake by R.H. Baker. The construction of
this boat was also detailed in WoodenBoat, and
reprinted in Wooden Boat: an Appreciation of the
Craft, Addison-Wesley, 1982. Reputed to be a poor
sailer.
Phil
Bolger's Sailing Peero
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A $25 'shareware' boat plan for a
12-ft sailing canoe. Flat sides, leeboard,
sharpie bottom, much rocker, transom stern,
the ACA would not approve but it's fun to
sail or paddle and sails exceedingly well.
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John Bull points out, in his book,
that Phil Bolger's "His and Hers Schooner"
plan is actually a 20-foot schooner-rigged
sharpie-style sailing canoe. Unusual perhaps,
but it's a possibility.
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Lost in the Woods
Boatworks
Boats and rigs all on a very nice web page.
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Notes on Museums and Libraries
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Peabody/Essex Museum (Salem, MA) •
Photos from 1880s and 1890s ACA meets, and its collection
includes a charming little decked canoe Urchin.
Click here.
Library catalog: click
here. Collections: click
here.
The Adirondack Museum (Blue Mountain Lake, NY).
A collection of genuine sailing canoes (nope, none
sailing) and a library filled with information. Click
here.
National Maritime Museum (Greenwich UK)
• The Museum's library is the most comprehensive
maritime reference library in the world. It contains
around 100,000 printed books as well as pamphlets, bound
volumes of periodicals, microforms and a selection of
CD-ROMs. The Library collections are fully computerized.
The Library is also the point of access to the Manuscript
Collection.
The Rare Book Collection accounts for about 10,000,
pre-1850 printed books. It is rich in early books on
shipbuilding, seamanship and signaling, and includes
examples of early works on navigation.
The Navy Department Library <http://navy.library.net/>
in Washington DC holds the following obscure titles. You
may also find some volumes in the Nimitz Library
at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) and at the
Mariners' Museum in Newport News. Harvard
has a good collection of the various editions of Dixon
Kemp - perhaps Yale does too.
Camping out with the British Canoe Association
: with chapters on camping canoeing and amateur
photography.
By John Davey Hayward
George Philip & Son, [1889?]
Description: 99 p. : ill., photos. ; 17 cm.
RARE COLL. UNDERSIZE GV191.48.G7 H39 1889
The Canoe Aurora; a cruise from the Adirondacks
to the gulf.
By Dr. Chas. A. Neidé
Forest and stream publishing co., 1885.
Description: 215 p. incl. front. (map) 19 cm.
GEN. COLL. E168.N39
Canoe Handling. The canoe, history, uses,
limitations and varieties, practical management and care
and relative facts.
By C. Bowyer Vaux
Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1886.
Description: 168 p. ill. diagrs. 19 cm.
SPEC. COLL. GV783.V38 1886
Yachts, Boats and Canoes, with special chapters
on model yachts and single-handed sailing.
By C. Stansfeld-Hicks.
Numerous illustrations and diagrams and working drawings
of model yachts and various small craft suitable for
amateurs.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887.
Description: 384 p. ill. ; 21 cm.
SPEC. COLL. VM321.S8 1887
Practical Boat Building for Amateurs:
containing full instructions for designing and building
punts, skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, etc. Illustrated
with working diagrams. By Adrian Neison, C.E.
L. U. Gill [1881?]
Description: 108 p. illus. 20 cm.
GEN. COLL. VM351.N41
Cruises in Small Yachts and Big Canoes; or,
Notes from the "Watersnake," in Holland and on the south
coast, the logs of the "Water Rat" and "Viper," on the
Thames and south coast, with remarks on anchorages for
small craft.
By Harry Fiennes Speed.
Norie & Wilson, 1883.
Description: viii, 288 p. front., illus., maps (partly
fold.) 19 cm.
GEN. COLL. GV819.S74
Canoe Travelling: log of a cruise on the
Baltic, and practical hints on building and fitting
canoes.
By Warington Baden-Powell.
Smith, Elder, 1871.
Description: xiii, 172 p. front., illus., plates (part
fold.) fold. map. 20 cm.
GEN. COLL. DL617.B15
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