Hey any info on your sailing kit. I plan on doing one myself and would like to know if you used a kit or just built it yourself. Sold the Catalina 22 last week and looking at canoes tomorrow.
@bugpower18t it's a crab claw rig, easily made yourself from a tarp or cheap canvas and long thick dowels(1" to 1 1/2" dowel rods). it's essentially a piece of fabric in a triangle with long dowels on the two sides and connecting one to the top of the mast and letting the other one loose to hang down and arranged so it's stopped by the mast from going forward. it's good to make a small model of a rig before making it big scale, then you know everything, just need to make it bigger.
it's "slow", not much slower than if you were paddling and is a lot less work.
flamedrag18 4 months ago
Hey any info on your sailing kit. I plan on doing one myself and would like to know if you used a kit or just built it yourself. Sold the Catalina 22 last week and looking at canoes tomorrow.
bugpower18t 1 year ago
@bugpower18t it's a crab claw rig, easily made yourself from a tarp or cheap canvas and long thick dowels(1" to 1 1/2" dowel rods). it's essentially a piece of fabric in a triangle with long dowels on the two sides and connecting one to the top of the mast and letting the other one loose to hang down and arranged so it's stopped by the mast from going forward. it's good to make a small model of a rig before making it big scale, then you know everything, just need to make it bigger.
flamedrag18 4 months ago
Hey saw it for sale on Craigslist. I have a 22 ft Catalina that I'm looking to downgrade. Interested?
bugpower18t 1 year ago