|   These photos are from the second season of using 
                            the Ulua hull I built and brings the article 
                            I wrote for Duckworks a while back to completion. 
                            I started with the canoe as a tri, and decided that 
                            it was lacking freeboard. Rather than give it additional 
                            freeboard and adding even more weight, I went the 
                            other way and decided to go with a new rig and a single 
                            outrigger. The rig is Gary Dierking's stub mast rig 
                            to allow additional luff length on a standard windsurfer 
                            spar. As it happened my original sail worked great 
                            with this combo at the first reef position. I used 
                            cord to tie it to the spar and a standard windsurfing 
                            end cap to tie the main to the top of the mast with 
                            webbing. An added bonus of the tacking outrigger is 
                            that it paddles great now! The sailing was a blast 
                            this summer, and I named her Anhinga after the shoreside 
                            swimming bird often seen in South Florida.  
                             
                            Dan 
                            
                            
                            
                           
                          
  
                            
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