Proafile is a website that we have both looked at countless times. We are very flattered that they would publish an article about our attempts at building a sailing canoe. They really picked up on our desire to use regional materials and simplicity as keystones for our design. You can view the article at www.Proafile.com
Our next project is in fact a proa!
Finally finished the rigging!!! We put up the yard and boom, installed the blocks, sail, and ran the halyard and main sheet lines. It’s only an 85 sq ft sail but she will be just enough to cruise. We also installed our barrel mounts. While underway, these 55 gal blue barrels will ride up out of the water while at night they will sit in the water to offer stability since we designed the boat so that only ONE outrigger is in the water. Additionally, we installed our pannier bags to the front and back. These bags are used for bicycle touring and are 100% waterproof, perfect for our application. We later installed the cooler, fishing rod mount, a 5 gallon poo bucket (duty calls all the time), a sherpa backpack, and installed the second outrigger.
We still have a few other things to do, busy work, but for the most part here she is. We depart Feb 12th out of Biscayne Bay in Miami.
CLICK PICTURE TO “ENHANCE” ; THESE ARE LARGE PHOTOS!
Here she is!! It is designed for one person to be in the front (paddle seat) and one in the back steering it with her beautiful 10.5 black locust viking oar. Looks strange though with all the snow 
How the yard meets the boom. It sits in a nice little dug out and anchored. Our rigging cost less than 100 bucks, outstanding, thankyou mother Earth
Our rod holder, gotta catch some fish
side view, see our dingy
Pannier bags, many many uses. We will hold our NOAA charts and navigational tools up here as well as other things
Halyard, how the yard connects to the mast
at the bottom you can see our cam cleat and fiddle block. This is how we will control the mainsheet while underway
Front angle is cool, she looks tribal
Main sheet block
Done
