How Not To

Step 9 Wreck a Canoe in Surf

I sailed too close to land, the waves caught my canoe and rolled me all the way to the beach.
This is a "folding proa" I sailed along the Yucatan. In this picture it's been reduced to a bag of broken sticks.

I always seem to be able to get out through surf okay, and wreck my boat coming in.
I keep thinking I'll try a drogue to slow me down on the way in, or back in while paddling out though the waves, etc. etc. But when I want to come in I just think how great it would be to come barreling in on a wave, and think maybe it'll work out okay. Sometimes it does.

The second photo shows Nathan Eagle and myself wrecking our canoe in shore break in Kenya.
It's a pretty good little three-board sailing outrigger.

Read the Yucatan Proa story. See the Kenya Canoe Instructable.

Comments

[mauiwowie24]

i love kayak surfing cause i can do it across the street from my house but my plastic kayak is probably a bit more durable