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Balogh Sail Designs | High performance Batwing sail rigs and inflatable outriggers for rigid kayaks, folding kayaks, and open canoes. Designs by Mark Balogh.
Brett Marine Design | Based in Auckland, New Zealand, James Brett is a marine designer specialising in multi-hull sailing and power boats which are affordable, fast, practical, and efficient.
Cape Falcon Kayak | Skin-on-frame kayak designs and building lessons on the Oregon Pacific coast. Excellent.
DIY-Tris | Home brewed trimarans by Frank Smoot. Small, quick, nimble, inexpensive and did I mention amazing DIY trimarans.
James Wharram Catamarans | Polynesian double canoe designs and commentary by the inimitable James Wharram.
John Welsford Small Craft Design | Popular New Zealand designer of fast but salty looking small craft suitable for beach cruising and voyaging.
Lunada Design | Chris Ostlind designs and builds elegant plywood smallcraft - most notably extremely cool trimarans.
McGowan Marine Design | Boat designer Laurie McGowan's site focuses on environmentally friendly human and sail powered small boats.
Nigel Irens Design | Accomplished, creative and versatile English designer of boats from Open 60 racing tris to neo-traditional luggers.
Outrigger Sailing Canoes | The blog of Gary Dierking, designer of proas and outrigger canoes in New Zealand. Nice blog, very nice boats.
Slider Cat | Innovative camp cruising catamarans by Ray Aldridge.
Tacking Outrigger | The website of Peter Evans and his designs. Includes a comprehensive photo list of tacking outriggers.
Tom Speer’s Shunting Foil Sections | Tom Speer is a Boeing aerodynamicist who used computer voodoo to create a foil section with fore and aft symmetry, suitable for a shunting proa. On the water reports show that the new foils perform as expected, that is... as well as traditional "teardrop" foils. An important step forward in proa development.
Vector Fin Proa | Proa with windward hydrofoil to counter-act heeling. By Fritz Roth.