Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes: Modern Construction Methods For Three Fast, Beautiful Boats (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Softcover

Dierking, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071487913 ISBN 13: 9780071487917

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2007

Synopsis

Build the fastest, most exoticsailboats around!

Popular in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacificand Indian Oceans, outrigger canoes combine theromance of the South Seas with a ruthless efficiency ofdesign and breathtaking sailing performance. This is thefirst book to present complete plans and buildinginstructions for three outrigger sailing canoes.

Based on traditional Hawaiian and Micronesian types, thedesigns are lightweight, easy to build, and screaminglyfast. Author Gary Dierking shows you how tobuild these boats using stitch-and-glue and strip-plankingconstruction, explains what tools and materials arerequired, how to rig and equip the boats, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Dierking has been designing and building boats for more than 40 years. Raised in northern Wisconsin, he served in the US Coast Guard, then built a 37' trimaran and logged 20,000 nautical miles throughout the Pacific. His interest in outrigger canoes and other multihulls continued in the 1980s, when he worked as head builder and assistant designer for Rudy Choy Boatworks in Honolulu, building a series of high tech offshore catamarans for racing and the tourist industry. Since 1991, he has run his own boat shop in Coromandel, New Zealand. He designs, builds, repairs, and modifies a wide variety of working and recreational vessels, especially multihulls, up to 50 feet in length. He series-manufactures his Ulua outrigger canoe design in molded fiberglass.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071487913
• ISBN 13: 9780071487917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192