Day 20, Skin-on-frame rower-sailer

Day 20) skin-on-frame row/sail canoe. 5 hrs.
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Spent the morning rigging the boat with all the usual last minute modifications. Set it up, take it down, set it up, take it down. I usually do my initial rigging with cheap polypropylene rope and the once I’ve sailed a few times I’ll replace it with Dacron and Spectra and make notes of all the lengths for future reference.
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The sail is a Really Simple Sails 36 sq ft canoe sail. It’s too small for the boat but I didn’t feel like waiting for a custom sail, and sailrite doesn’t have the size I want. This exact same sail with another 10 square feet of sail on the foot and another reef is what I’d like for efficient ghosting.
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I’m borrowing heavily from Micheal Storers lug setup guide here with a few of my own modification to allow for rapid adjustment and to avoid over stressing the frame. I set the down haul with a clam cleat and the goose neck is just an extension of the tack line with a snap shackle for quick one handed setup. It’s clean and it works well.
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I did what I literally always do and made the boom 2 inches too short. I don’t understand why I do this. I know not to, I just do it anyway almost like I’m possessed by a stupidity goblin that forces me to make the same bad choices over and over. It still works fine.
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Spent close to an hour perforating my new flip-over leeboards with holes moving around the blocking and eyes to get the geometry perfect, otherwise they won’t set right.
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My initial thought seeing it all set up is that the frame is too flexy for serious sailing. The section of the mast is also a tiny bit small so in this case the flex of the frame will likely save the mast. I think the sail size is matched to what the frame can likely handle. Experience tells me the same boat in fir will be stiff enough but significantly heavier. Boat weighs 60 right now, rig weighs 20. That gives me 10lbs to play with before it’s not a good cartop boat anymore. That’s not a lot of wiggle room for stiffening.
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A construction crew put a port-a-potty with my last name on the side in front of my house. Weird.
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Day 20, Skin-on-frame rower-sailer. Build time: 5 hrs.

Spent the morning rigging the boat with all the usual last minute modifications. Set it up, take it down, set it up, take it down. I usually do my initial rigging with cheap polypropylene rope and the once I’ve sailed a few times I’ll replace it with Dacron and Spectra and make notes of all the lengths for future reference.

The sail is a Really Simple Sails 36 sq ft canoe sail. It’s too small for the boat but I didn’t feel like waiting for a custom sail, and Sailrite doesn’t have the size I want. This exact same sail with another 10 square feet of sail on the foot and another reef is what I’d like for efficient ghosting.

I’m borrowing heavily from Micheal Storer’s lug setup guide here with a few of my own modification to allow for rapid adjustment and to avoid over stressing the frame. I set the down haul with a clam cleat and the goose neck is just an extension of the tack line with a snap shackle for quick one handed setup. It’s clean and it works well.

I did what I literally always do and made the boom 2 inches too short. I don’t understand why I do this. I know not to, I just do it anyway almost like I’m possessed by a stupidity goblin that forces me to make the same bad choices over and over. It still works fine.

Spent close to an hour perforating my new flip-over leeboards with holes moving around the blocking and eyes to get the geometry perfect, otherwise they won’t set right.

My initial thought seeing it all set up is that the frame is too flexy for serious sailing. The section of the mast is also a tiny bit small so in this case the flex of the frame will likely save the mast. I think the sail size is matched to what the frame can likely handle. Experience tells me the same boat in fir will be stiff enough but significantly heavier. Boat weighs 60 right now, rig weighs 20. That gives me 10lbs to play with before it’s not a good cartop boat anymore. That’s not a lot of wiggle room for stiffening.

A construction crew put a port-a-potty with my last name on the side in front of my house. Weird.