I found this beautiful image of a traditional tacking outrigger on the Indigenous Boats blog. It is a Sinhalese Outrigger (or should it rather be Singhalese?). I don't really know much more about it, and I'm not even really sure whether it is a tacking...

The heat was again ferocious. There is no shame in admitting that the high temperatures are mining the pleasure at work and denting into my motivation. On one side, I know I should not over do it, and turn the building into something I do not enjoy and...

Yesterday I visited Miguel Pomar, who builds a small sailing cat, which reminded me the Slider design, by Ray Aldridge. It is a short catamaran with good buoyancy and a generous open deck. He showed me his boat in the Marina da Glória, where a gentle...

A proa congress has been organized this weekend in Arkle's Beach, New Zealand, by participants of the Proa-file discussion group. Eight outrigger sailing canoes have gathered for a day of sailing and meeting other sailors and builders of these unique...

In the end, the squid got me yesterday. It's long and strechy arms travelled all the way out from Ramos, to find me lazily relaxing on the couch. The squid allways finds me, wherever I am. It reached me in form of a phone call by Ricco. He offered...