Canoe Sailing WWW Pages

Caution - Page always unfinished! - 14 April 2005

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NEW - Tim Gittins Canadian Canoe Sailing Associatin website - includes an archive of old designs etc

Bill Serjeant's Micro-Sailboat pages - an eco-friendly site for sailors of small boats.

UK Open Canoe Sailing Group official site now up and running

PakYak - a home-made folding kayak you can backpack!

Duckworks Magazine - written for and by those wacky homemade boat builders! - has a number of canoe stories.


Open Canoe Sailor International Site - John Bull's own (John Bull is the founder and Commodore of the UK OCSG, and author of "Sail Your Own Canoe")

UK Open Canoe Sailing Group (my page) - you've probably just come from there

OCSG's Events CalendarDecked sailing canoe historical archives - A fascinating set of historical information - includes lines of a LOT of hulls

Ontario Canoe Sailing Association - A contribution to the on-going efforts of many devoted canoe-sailors to renew and expand the ancient art and science of sailing canoes.

American Canoe Association (ACA) Sailing Committee pages

Dan Miller and Craig O'Donnell include information on the ACA Rig, Balancing the Rig, ACA Classes of Sailing Canoes. They have an addictive list of resources and links to related sites for sailing outriggers, museum collections, plans available, other organizations related to canoe sailing, such as Mystic Seaport, and a bibliography. The section on proas is extensive.

Swedish IC Homepage Source for Swedish Canoesailing and IC information.

The Carl Smith Sailing Canoe Page

The Proa FAQ - details of Micronesian sailing canoes and their modern derivatives

the Polynesian Voyaging Society - an excellent history of these sailing canoes


My designs -

"Simple Single" - a one-person paddling/sailing canoe, easily constructed from two sheets of plywood and a few odd bits.

"Developed Double" - a two-person development of the above

"Sue's Canoe" - a lightweight 14ft sailing canoe designed to be built in a 12ft garage! (It divides into two pieces)

Other peoples -

Tyrone Boats Check out the section on sailing rigs.

Jim Michalak's boat designs (I've put this in because it has some neat ideas (eg leeboards), but I can't remember how many of his sketches are canoes!)

The Shape of the Canoe - John Winter's essay on canoe design (for his index page go to here)

More to be added


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