Just wanted you guy's to see "Blue Fox" my 16' sailing pirogue. She has 1/4" oak gunwales in and out supported by mahogany spacers. The skeg is 1/4" X 2" mahogany and is internal. The mast step, camber thwart, and all cross members are white oak. The gudgeon is oversized mahogany with a steel axel. There is no tiller, she has a foot helm driven by a stainless cable. For room she has a leeboard that is interchangeable port to starboard. The mast and spars are fir with stainless and spectra rigging. All blocks and other hardware are Harken with the exception of the shrouds eyelets and custom components, which were hand cast at New England Sterling. The sails are one and two piece panel dacron. The cockpit is actually quite spacious. Installed is a foldable ballistic nylon seat. All of the sheets are color indicated and are stayed by Harken cam cleats. The reverse vange and all other lines (including rudder up/dn) are easily reached. Her total weight is approximately 68 lbs fully rigged. Despite how small this boat is it is actually quite stable and reasonably quick with onboard gps readings of 9.2 kts on a run. I've had a lot of fun with this boat and wanted to thank you !

Blue Fox update:
It's been excellent for the past three seasons and has proven to be New England rugged in the process. I have been so pleased with it and haven't even had to put a screwdriver to it really. I did make a new rudder though. The last one worked good under sail but it proved to be unnecessarily wide when you paddled. It was causing too much lateral force on the rudder head assembly. I simply made a more narrow rudder and it still works very well under sail. I am surprised at how fast that this little boat really is and today got to find out just why all the other grown men were always afraid to take the thing out for a sail. I opened all the reefs and cut down wind on a real breeze and I clocked 18 mph which I might add is really hairy in a 68lb boat. However in the 100 hrs or so that I've been sailing Blue Fox she has never thrown me. I love the recovery she makes as you hit a sandbar and the leeboard kicks up just right to let go. I've brought Blue all over the New England area lakes to sail and there's just no experience that compares to sailing Blue past the Crater ridge At Pawtuckaway NH, Or just cruising up the Ten Mile river over in Attleboro MA just to see how far I can get her into a shallow swamp. Its a brilliant design that became adapted to this New England wilderness just like a migrating sea bird.

Happy Paddling,
E.C. Peters Rumford RI