Interesting Boat with Outrigger

Saw this in the Octopus Islands this summer. A bit different, but probably very efficient. 20 HP Yamaha on the back.

Even more efficient:



(Petaluma turning basin)

Mark I've paddled one of those.

If you twist your hip you can pop that outrigger up of the water and it plunks back down again. That one is set up for a left handed person. Ama on that side. Yes very efficient and fast for a paddled craft. I don't remember if I tried to paddle it from the other side or not.

Conrad,
How wide is that boat .. just the main hull? Looks like there may be 3 people in it.

manyboats said:

Conrad,
How wide is that boat .. just the main hull? Looks like there may be 3 people in it.

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Not sure Eric, but this photo gives some idea.

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Conrad,
Thanks, it looks 4 or 5' wide. I have a special interest in long narrow outboards. Ther'e very rare of course .. unless you're way south and then they call them Panga's. Personally I don't think it's necessary to have an ama that long. Looks like it may be slow turning and possibly a little wet (or a lot when it gets rough) but it appears a very serviceable boat. And is a good display of how easily driven long and narrow boats are but anybody that's paddled a canoe knows that. Here's my powered canoe. 12 knots at least w that engine at about 50%.

Octopus Is? Like the no end of Quadra Is? Looked for a house there a while back. Was real fond of Hariet Bay. Is the old hotel still there?
That was before we went to Alaska. We kept looking until we were in Alaska.

manyboats said:

Here's my powered canoe. 12 knots at least w that engine at about 50%.

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I love canoes! As a lad, I took a several day course on how to handle a canoe. The event was held on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania. We learned where to sit (whether one person or two) how to get the water out after tipping over, how to get back in after tipping over, how to portage the boat, how to paddle without switching sides all the time (my favorite) and most of all, how to properly load a canoe.

I have had my best boating experiences in a canoe.

manyboats said:

Octopus Is? Like the no end of Quadra Is? Looked for a house there a while back. Was real fond of Hariet Bay. Is the old hotel still there?
That was before we went to Alaska. We kept looking until we were in Alaska.

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Eric, yes the Octopus Island Marine Park is at the northeast end of Quadra. A beautiful anchorage and definitely worth the tidal pass planning that is required to get to it. (Actually the planning part is half the fun of getting there.)

So you were house hunting from somewhere to the Octopus Islands to Thorne Bay? Sounds like a good story is in there....

And yes the Heriot Bay Inn is still going strong.

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A canoe is probably the first boating experience for many folks.