Home made Kayak Sail

So All this talk of kayak sailing , I've watch a ton of youtube and made a sail, Hope it works, next i need to make a rudder , As a few know I sold my ride 115 last year, I currently have a Field and Stream SOT fishing kayak,there's No Rudder attachment so it's going to take some work to do..If any other have made a rudder for their F&S I'd like to see how it turned out..

A crab claw sail like that should work well. Nice!

How helpful a rudder will be depends, in part, on how much lateral resistance the hull shape or a lee board has. If it offers low resistance, then adding a rudder will change the angle of the boat, but it will slip directly downwind anyway. I've rigged up something like that sail on a canoe and did all steering with a paddle; with any breeze steering didn't make much difference until I improvised a lee board--the boat goes where the wind blows it.

That will be great fun! Please share some pics when you kick back with a cold one while throwing a bow wave.

That's been on my list of things to try for too long!  Maybe this will motivate me to get improvising.
Having done a little sailing, I'd agree with DARice, the lee board will be as important as the sail shape and position.

-Mark-

I rigged up a sail like that for mine too, there were two areas I had the biggest issues with.  Design I used had a length of shock cord pulling each mast forward, tied at Athens front grab handle like yours.  Turned out not enough to to tension it, so had a hard time getting the sail put into position ...

Second issue was that the sail tended to collapse the masts in towards each other, making the sail practically useless.  Had to add a bungee assisted spreader bar to give me any sail area...

But, on the days it worked, it worked well and was a blast!

Jim

I rigged up a sail like that for mine too, there were two areas I had the biggest issues with.  Design I used had a length of shock cord pulling each mast forward, tied at Athens front grab handle like yours.  Turned out not enough to to tension it, so had a hard time getting the sail put into position ...

Second issue was that the sail tended to collapse the masts in towards each other, making the sail practically useless.  Had to add a bungee assisted spreader bar to give me any sail area...

But, on the days it worked, it worked well and was a blast!

Jim

thanks for you input, I might try a few different things to make it work, A lee board ,rudder, Addition rigging a work in progress

BTW, many old sailing canoes didn't have rudders (but did have centerboards), and maneuvering was accomplished by sail trim and hull trim (moving body weight forward and aft).

BTW, many old sailing canoes didn't have rudders (but did have centerboards), and maneuvering was accomplished by sail trim and hull trim (moving body weight forward and aft).

I have a setup for my gruman canoe also, A bit different with a lee board

I have the Hobie sail on my Revo 13 and it works great!