Canoe Sailing

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Boat Of The Day. The PK 520.

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The PK 520 is an updated version of the III C Finish sailing canoe designed by Erkki Ruokonen and Torolf Bäckman. What a knock out!

From Erkki: "I haven´t heard from you for a long time, how is living behind the Big Sea? I´m working hard with customers boats, as usual. At the moment life goes on while working on a new Catboat, drawn by Warner L. Winthrop in the 1930`. Interior is soon ready and it will be covered with a teak deck. Later in the spring I start working with to kayaks. And there is a huge 38 ft. mahogany motorboat that needs a lot of care, but it won´t be in the water this year. I have started to draw a new IIIC, much simplier than PK 520. I have a short video clip of PK 520, would you like see it? (YES!) The PK 520 works well, it´s a true beauty and quite fast too. My own dinghy sailing experience is a VLL ( a Very Low Level ) so it was not a big news to realize that the water was cold and wet during the first trial and errors with PK 520. We haven´t done nothing yet to simplify the drawings, so I must discuss with Torolf about it. Here is a picture of IIIC."

Awesome! Read more here.

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Reader Recommended Reading.

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Puluwat sailing canoes coming home.

From Guy (Guy is "The Yellowstone guy."):
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY I WAS AN ANTROPOLOGY PROFESSOR.

You should locate and read "East Is A Big Bird" by Thomas Gladwin. The detail of the canoes, the seamanship, and the sheer balls of the navigators is telling of the seafaring wanderlust.
-- I loved the map of your last post.

Guy

Thanks Guy, I ordered it today from Amazon.
Cheers, Joe

P.S. Wahines to come.

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Canoes Are Poky!

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C (5 Meter) Canoe.
Snooze.

IIIC Canoe.
What are those Finns thinking?

B-Kanot.
Leave it to the Swedes to come up with this poky thing.

C-Kanot.
Come on guys, you can do better than this!

D-Kanot.
Please!


E-Kanot.
That thing is so poky I could just spit!




IC Canoe.
That can't be any fun!

Outrigger Sailing Canoe.
What? That thing has training wheels.

Bonnie, Do kayakfolk really think that canoes are poky?

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