Digging through old photos I found this ridiculous contraption that actually worked pretty well. Last year I built a triple nesting set of canoes with the smaller two being solos and the larger one being mostly just a UV protection cover for the other two.
I built rowing rigs for all three of them because Liz prefers to row and a couple of my normal pop up sails because I prefer doing nothing.
One day when we were about to take out the largest canoe I grabbed a handful of sheet rock screws and a block of scrap wood and screwed it on to the middle of the rowing set up and then drilled a hole right down the middle of it with the idea that I could just drop the mast from the other pop up sail right into it and double our propulsion.
I’d already tried something similar on solo canoes and it just turned out to be a maddeningly frustrating contraption, but at least for a mellow evening cruise in light winds this micro schooner scooted along smartly and earned us a thumbs up from every boat we passed!
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