Many of the yachts and boats that I have designed over the years are BIG. Or pretty large, depending on what you view to be large. Without exception, none would fit in my garage or on the roof rack of my car. So this one is one design that, if time and opportunity allow, is one that might fit in my garage and perhaps be transported to a local lake or reservoir to sail. Obviously it will need to be built first! It is a task that perhaps could take place in summer, with some assistance of one or both of my boys, who knows?
In the meantime this is the design. Yes, it is an outrigger canoe with a Gaff sail and my idea of suspension on the Iakos (outrigger arms). It would be built as a skin on frame canoe, as well as a skin on frame Ama (the outrigger float). The suspension would be experimental, by means of a couple of double wishbones and I would use bungee cords, although not sure they have the necessary dampening qualities…
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