On the bank at Lake Powell
XCR owners, Kellan Hatch and Ben Algera have been putting their boats to good use over the last couple of weeks. If you have been following this site, then you have already been introduced to both of them through previously posted pieces.
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Canoes, Paddled, Sailing, Sailing Multihulls, Trimarans.
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Checking-in with Ben Algera as he builds a boat for a future Watertribe event
With the main hull now successfully launched and then paddled briefly with his wife and kids, Ben has taken the first important step towards the completion of his XCR.
Sailing and paddling trips await Ben with this boat as it can seemlessly morph from a straight-up decked tripping canoe to a very nice sailing trimaran in minutes.
There are all sorts of photos of Ben’s build progress at his Blog site. http://www.bensboats.blogspot.com/
Take a few moments to scan through his entries and you can see for yourself how easy it is to build an XCR of your own.
Posted: September 16th, 2009 under Canoes, Paddled, Sailing, Sailing Multihulls, Trimarans, Uncategorized.
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Right up front, I’m going to give a full tip o’ the cap to John Winters, Canadian boat designer, for the inspiration to design this particular canoe. John’s Osprey II S&G design is a beautiful example of a designer bringing his enormous skills to the worktable. I wanted to draw a solo, tripping style canoe for 4mm marine plywood construction, so I took a long look at the Osprey to see if there was anything I could do differently with the form.
In Winters’ design, there is a very nice, tumblehome chine along the shear to give additional paddle stroke clearance. I have built boats before that used a similar tumblehome panel and it turns out that they can give the builder some interesting problems when it comes to constructing the hull.
Posted: July 4th, 2008 under Canoes, Paddled.
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