- The $50, 5 HOUR CANOE SAIL RIG
- A complete builder/user/experimenter/historical
guide and philosophical treatise.
- by William C. Mantis
Publication date: November 15, 1999
109 pages with table of contents
5 3/8 x 8 3/8 format
29 diagrams and 5 photographs
complete nautical glossary
original full-color charcoal drawing cover
ISBN 0-9673233-0-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 99-65152
$9.95 retail
Bill Mantis, in his personal and irreverent style,
takes the reader through the steps of constructing
a sailing rig for a canoe. Directions for construction,
as well as the materials list, are precise and thorough.
He explains why a canoe makes a decent sailboat and
why he chooses to sail a canoe rather than his other
sailboats. Mantis, an experienced sailor and novice
boat- builder, also includes historical data that will
interest the sailor and non-sailor alike. The low price
point makes this a perfect gift for the sailing enthusiast,
the amateur, or the merely curious.
Excerpt from The $50, 5 HOUR CANOE SAIL RIG: " The
canoe rig described... meets even the most stringent
criteria for a good investment. It costs less than
$50 in off-the-shelf materials... It requires no more
than five hours of physically undemanding, technically
unsophisticated labor to assemble. It will completely
and forever debunk the mystique of sailing which the
conspiracy of sailors and manufacturers of sailing
products have so carefully cultivated over the last
half century. It allows for an after-work sail. The
rig probably makes a canoe more seaworthy. It certainly
allows a canoe to be used in a wider range of wind
conditions. Finally, it stimulates one's fantasy life.
Cruising in an open, traditional craft, with a sail
reminiscent of rigs seen in the South Pacific, one
cannot help but think that an undiscovered island is
just over the horizon--or perhaps just on the other
side of that midrise apartment built on the point."
Click here
for Bill's 2000 update.
2001
Update: A rudder for your canoe
To place an order make checks or money orders payable to William C. Mantis.
Send $9.95 plus $2.00 postage to:
Mediterranean
Avenue Press
Post Office Box 234
Bokeelia, FL 33922
phone and fax: 1-239-283-8326 For additional information, contact:
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