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Priceless details and wonderful, if fuzzy, photos: Sailing Canoes: A Brief History
Also, check Tim Gittner’s jolly archive, which contains lots of lines from old-fashioned canoes, and quite a lot from Uffa Fox in his usual hale and hearty style. http://www.intcanoe.org/iclife/history.html
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It seems to me it was at least ten years ago that Mike Storer’s Beth lug-rigged yawl sailing canoe design first caught my interest, but maybe it’s just that I’ve thought often about the design and my shaky memory is just playing its tricks again.
Influenced by racing sailing canoes of the 1890s, the Beth is a design that should interest anyone with a yen for a boat that is simple in form and easy and cheap to build, while offering real sailing performance.
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