Wa'apa
Description
The Wa'apa (Hawaiian for "outrigger canoe") is a versatile, demountable outrigger sailing canoe designed by Gary Dierking, a well-known builder and author of Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes. It is offered as detailed plans (not a factory production boat), allowing builders to construct it in plywood/epoxy using stitch-and-glue or taped-seam methods. The design is highly modular: the main hull (vaka) and ama (outrigger float) can be built in 8-foot (2.4 m) bolt-together sections, so the same set of parts can create a 16 ft, 24 ft, or even longer boat (up to 32 ft by adding sections). It can be rigged as a single-outrigger proa (tacking or shunting) or a double-outrigger trimaran (catamaran-style with two amas), making it one of the most adaptable small multihull designs available.
Construction Details
| Designer | Gary Dierking, |
|---|---|
| Builder | Home Built |
| Length | 16.000 ft |
| LOA | 16.000 ft |
| Beam | 11.000 ft |
| Displacement | 275 lb |
The standard boat dimensions
| i | - |
|---|---|
| j | - |
| p | 11 ft |
| e | 11 ft |
| p2 | - |
| e2 | - |
| i2 | - |
| j2 | - |
| I | J | P | E | P2 | E2 | I2 | J2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 11 ft | 11 ft | - | - | - | - |
Sails
Wa'apa - MAINSAIL
| Luff | * 11 ft - (3353 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | * 11 ft - (3353 mm) |
| Leech | * 14.98 ft - (4566 mm) |
| Tack Angle | * 88 ° |
| Diagonal | * 15.28 ft - (4657 mm) |
| Head (inches) | * 5.25 in - (133 mm) |
| Area | * 62.87 ft² |
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