: I use sails between 5.5 and 7.5 sq metres on the boat. Bill is
: right' a kayak rudder would be totally useless with the rig, I
: am using a full sized rudder and the first one I made had the
: pintles ripped out of the head due to me underestimating the
: forces on it.

: If you are considering a daggerboard, it is worth going for a
: pivoting centreboard. Easier to balance the helm under differing
: points of sail.

: Try to get an old old windsurf board, but a short board (1990
: vintage perhaps or even a bit older, very cheap:). The more
: modern ones have short mast tracks, the older ones have longer
: tracks to canabilize. You might want to pick up sails from a mor
: recent time, within the last 10 to 12 years or so. Also very
: cheap.

: I used the tops of two carbon masts for shrouds and a rotating mast
: clamp to secure them to the mast. The masts tend to break at the
: boom, so there are plenty of usable tops around these days.

: The rig likes to be raked back for best effect, which looks cool
: and makes the rigid shroud viable.

: The rigid shroud seems to distribute load from gusts nicely to the
: cross member and onto the outrigger, rather than stressing the
: connection points at the hull. A happy side effect.

: Food for thought I hope.

: I need to take the trimaran out more often, but the kayaks are so
: darned simple to put on the water that they get to go out a lot
: more.

Although I've yet to use it, I got an old original Windsurfer with two sails with little use on Craigslist for $30 for the whole thing, owner was moving. Couldn't turn it down.

These boards have a centerboard in them, would be relatively easy to use that board in the yak so you wouldn't have to shape it. Barge of a windsurfer but should make a really nice doner for a sailing kayak :)

Bill H.