February progress on Toroa

Ama connection as featured on Gary Dierking's blog



















Cockpit details: note the lee deck and rib, mast base and rib at right of picture






















































































Mast scarf details



















































Kiato connection: The protruding pegs are shaped to retain a lashing around the kiato.


















Leeward self draining cockpit scuppers cut.


















Now to finish coving.
I'm off to Whangarei to collect my first ever outboard motor, a 2.5 hp. long shaft 4 stroke. Once I have that I can build the motor bracket and the all the structure is complete. Not too long now and we'll be sailing (and motoring) again

Toroa Update.

Now for the boring (& toxic) bit.

I've finished all the structural work & the mast base is fitted, the only thing now left to complete is the windward deck to provide access out to the ama which I want to construct out of lashed bamboo. The interior is glassed so it's fairing, glassing, filling sanding, painting of all the exterior surfaces. I'll post more pictures shortly when there is more to view.

Madagascar outrigger canoe

And now a small break from the Toroa surgery






















My brother found this in a Dutch "Zeilen" magazine, January 08 (photo by Edo & Joanne Ankum)
I always understood from my friend Steven (who's father was a military courier in Africa During the second World War) that outrigger canoes were common in Madagascar, he viewed them from the bubble observation window in the PBY Catalina in which he flew regularly
Here's a nice example of a tacker (not a shunting proa)
What's revealing for me is the way the lateen sail is set down wind.

Back to work, finishing the coving and glassing on the interior of Toroa's hull today.

More soon.