These photos are from the second season of using
the Ulua hull I built and brings the article
I wrote for Duckworks a while back to completion.
I started with the canoe as a tri, and decided that
it was lacking freeboard. Rather than give it additional
freeboard and adding even more weight, I went the
other way and decided to go with a new rig and a single
outrigger. The rig is Gary Dierking's stub mast rig
to allow additional luff length on a standard windsurfer
spar. As it happened my original sail worked great
with this combo at the first reef position. I used
cord to tie it to the spar and a standard windsurfing
end cap to tie the main to the top of the mast with
webbing. An added bonus of the tacking outrigger is
that it paddles great now! The sailing was a blast
this summer, and I named her Anhinga after the shoreside
swimming bird often seen in South Florida.
Dan
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