Books about Outrigger from Amazon.com

Build the fastest, most exotic sailboats around!

Popular in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, outrigger canoes combine the romance of the South Seas with a ruthless efficiency of design and breathtaking sailing performance. This is the first book to present complete plans and building instructions for three outrigger sailing canoes.

Based on traditional Hawaiian and Micronesian types, the designs are lightweight, easy to build, and screamingly fast. Author Gary Dierking shows you how to build these boats using stitch-and-glue and strip-planking construction, explains what tools and materials are required, how to rig and equip the boats, and more.

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design for an outrigger pontoon system.
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There aren¹t many books about the exotic-seeming sailboats of sea-faring peoples. There aren¹t any on how their methods might help the average backyard boater. Third World boat designs have evolved over the millenia to be easy and cheap to build and to repair, and to keep family sailors safe and to provide them with reliable livelihoods. This is in contrast to Western boat traditions, many of which come to us by way of luxury and profiteering, where most boats are expensive, difficult to build, and require crews, which are often considered expendable! Author Richard Carsen is 83 years old and has voyaged the globe for many years. He writes about his experiences with indigenous boats, small boat-building and unusual rigs in the magazine "Messing About in Boats." This book is a compilation of his columns. .
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