… in which Dylan ‘Keep Turning Left’ Winter makes the most of the floods and does something few of us are likely to have done. I know I haven’t.
There’s much more from Dylan here.
Category: Canoes
Canoes, kayaks, sailin canoes, open canoes, paddles, skin on frame canoes, canoe plans
A lateener from the drawing board of Antonio Dias
This intriguing drawing from the Antonio Dias Design weblog is of a trailer-sailing lateener he’s working up for a customer who intends to sail the boat around the Channel Islands of Southern California. Read all about it here.
I think this very cute little boat has a great deal in common with Mr Dias’ long standing interest in canoe yawls – read all about that here: Boats I’d like to design: canoe yawl. Those who have spent some time dreaming about canoe yawls as I have will be interested to know that the interior is along the lines of L Francis Herresshoff’s canoe yawl design Rozinante.
I must say I felt better when I realised the boat was bound for California – the idea of managing that big yard in a strong wind in the area of the British Channel Islands made me feel a tad queasy. But I guess we should temper that with the knowledge that lateen sails were all the rage among Barbary pirates in the same area of sea just a few centuries ago.
If it worked for those pirates of long ago, perhaps lateen rigged boats could work for us – I’d certainly like to try sailing one some day.
Matt Atkin photographs boats and river life in Cambodia, part 2
More of Matt Atkin’s photos from the Cambodian floating village of Tonle Sap on the River Mekong. To see more photos, click on part 1.
