Moccasin 2 for sailing

[scroc]

Hello All, have completed and used a Flyfisher with decks for the past couple of years and am planning a new project to keep me from the bars. Have followed Hugh Hortons "Puffin" and Meade Gougons "Serendipity" over the years and was thinking maybe Grahams "Moccasin 2" may be an ideal foundation for a sailing canoe.

Graham, what are your thoughts on the Moccasin for this type of use?

Has anyone tried leeboards and a simple sail rig // similar to the cat rigs Graham uses on the coresound series?

Any thoughts or experiences with sailing double paddle canoes are appreciated.

 

Thanks, Steve

[Scott Dunsworth]

Todd Bradshaw's Sailing Canoe book goes through just about every sail rig, lee boards, rudder setups that are pratical for a canoe. It is well worth the money if your into sailing canoes. He has instructions on building every thing for the sailing canoe all the way down to small blocks made with a penny.

Very good read.

 

Scott

[Howard]

Todd lives in Madison, WI and will also build you a sail for one of his or some other design. He favors the proven old school, traditional designs and rigging over the newer gimmicky stuff. An interesting guy.

[scroc]

Thanks Scott and Howard for the lead to Bradshaws book. Thinking this summer will try one of Grahams cat rigs scaled down to fit the Flyfisher and play with some simple leeboard designs.

Have really enjoyed building Grahams Flyfisher, small, light, simple in the shop and on the pocketbook, Yet Big on fun, performance and SMILES.

Thanks again, and will post some pics as this project moves along.

Steve