John's Nautical and Boatbuilding Page

In 2003 I built a proa off Gary Dierking's site, which I found from the boat-links page. This is making some happy memories for me, and also the happy-panicked-terrified memories of trying to sail a goddamn shunting double-ender boat that was designed to be sailed by an entire micronesian family.

I really recommend Dierking's designs. Also if you want some fun old-days-of-the-web maritime trip logs, I recommend Tim Anderson's tales of adventures and misadventures. Funded, I believe, from his patent on 3d printing IP, which he first hacked together with dot matrix parts and some sugar water. I wish I knew what Tim was up to these days, I'd buy him a beer.

Tim's old website https://www.mit.edu/people/robot/

Adventures of Stinky the Proa off the Yucatan Coast http://www.mit.edu/people/robot/yucatan/yucatan1.html

Seattle to Alaska by Hasty Outrigger http://www.mit.edu/people/robot/alaska/alaska.html

Outrigger Sailing in NZ in Gary Dierking's Toroa https://web.archive.org/web/20120820120430/https://web.media...

Starlink & a tri-masted schooner is all one needs ;)